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Amazon doesn't need to tell people to use their technology to benefit from educational videos.

Completely ignoring the educational content itself, well made educational videos bring community good will. This helps in both purchasing decisions and recruitment. Honestly, this basically can come from a PR / recruiting budget. Lecturer's aren't that expensive.

Now, for ML specifically, expanding the set of ML engineers has a dual benefit:

1) Creates more awareness and therefore demand for ML cloud services. Opensource? No problem, amazon will cheerfully sell you gpu enabled ec2 instances.

2) Expanded pool of candidates for hiring, and increased likelihood that internally, someone will propose a viable ML solution/product.

The ML sector is still growing rapidly, anything that fuels its growth is going to benefit Amazon simply by virtue that they're always going to be in the running for any business purchasing decision, and probabilistically, they'll get a percentage cut of that growth. Education helps grow it, and educational videos are pretty dang cheap.
Meanwhile I've never tasted Argentinian beef that doesn't taste like shoe leather. I had it in the Alsace and it was the worst steak I've ever had at a good restaurant. I should have known better and gotten the pork. Sampling bias is a thing.
You can enable the full bar though, instead of not using the browser anymore...
I have absolutely no idea what anything means in that chart.

If you have a good source I would be delighted to read it.
It's more than just GCP. It seems to be a general Google mindset.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
Agriculture causes around 10%, while transportation, including freight and flights causes around 30%.

Among the most effective things you can do yourself with minimal impact of your way of life is choosing to eat less meat.

Edit: the numbers I remembered was for Europe. Globally food production is 25%
Yes, we work with farmers in India - we teach them organic and natural farming and we find ways to sell their produce to customers in the cities. www.unifield.in
Treaties, I think

https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/international-trademark-rig...

But also lawsuits.

For example, some years ago the Indian government sued and won a case against a Texas company (owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein) that got a patent on Basmati rice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiceTec

After the patent was revoked, they renamed it "Texmati". Maybe we'll see a "Texjamon" in the future.
The complexity in supporting CSS does not come (primarily) from its individual properties, no matter how obscure. It comes from things like margin collapse, from correctly determining the stacking context, and about a gazillion other things like that.

These aren't things where you can just scan the CSS of the top websites to find out if they're being used. These are things where you'd have to do visual comparisons to the output of at least two other browser engines to determine if you end up with the same result.

Building a browser engine from scratch is imho more doable now than it's ever been before (excepting EME), due to the insane effort by the WHATWG standards to truly describe what is actually happening in browsers (rather than coming up with some theoretically pure description of what is envisioned to happen), and the similar level of detail on the CSS side to the myriad interactions between properties, along with the huge set of testcases for all of that.

Yes, there's _a lot_ - but compared to how loosely specified it all was in the past, when the instruction for building a browser engine was: "reverse engineer the bugs the dominant browser engine of today made in reverse engineering the bugs of the dominant browser that came before, and emulate that to your best ability", anyone starting from scratch nowadays has a way better chance at succeeding.
> The more I learn about X and Y, the more it looks like a complete clusterfuck, and it boggles my mind that somehow all this works almost perfectly while hiding all the complexities from the end user.

I modified your first sentence to make it more generic and applicable to many other things in software.
Greenland's name was given by Eric the Red, who wanted fellow Norse to settle there. He being there because he got kicked out of Iceland.
Erik (according to popular legend) called the island Greenland and painted the island as being a wonderful place to settle.

It was slightly warmer than even today, but that was a localized warming, not Global. Greenland has had several cold and warm cycles over the past hundred millennia.
Let's sandbox the apps!
> The person holds onto the rope with his gloved hands and feet and slides down it.

Someone decided to make a special name for sliding down a rope. Ok. What other fun names can we make for common uses?

Do firefighters in the station "fast-pole"? Do children on a playground "fast-slide"? If I take stairs two at a time is that "fast-stairing"?
Quick googling: “ Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories”

It’s not just about emissions. It’s also about the massive amount of land required to produce meat vs. crops for human consumption.

Re: cutting out meat vs. driving, only one of those activities is necessary to survive for the very high percentage of the population who don’t have access to public transit.
>...- no one has yet solved the waste problem (okay, the US has ample free land, but the rest of the world does not!)

In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:

"...Fast reactors can "burn" long lasting nuclear transuranic waste (TRU) waste components (actinides: reactor-grade plutonium and minor actinides), turning liabilities into assets. Another major waste component, fission products (FP), would stabilize at a lower level of radioactivity than the original natural uranium ore it was attained from in two to four centuries, rather than tens of thousands of years"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

While there are issues with nuclear power, the worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. The amounts generated are manageable and in a relatively short amount of time we can use most of this "waste" to generate electricity.

>...- the proliferation risk is not eliminated (and no, it's not only plutonium, but also ordinary uranium for dirty bombs to take care of, plus the risk of enrichment tech, as evidenced with Iran)

This isn't really relevant for commercial nuclear power - no country has ever gotten a nuclear bomb from commercial nuclear reactors. No terrorist has ever gotten access to nuclear waste. There are lots easier ways for terrorists and countries to obtain nuclear material. (Nuclear designs like the Integral Fast Reactor keep everything on site (including reprocessing) so the terrorist threat would be even more unlikely.)

>..- uranium fuel is mined under incredibly exploitative conditions.

Better than mining rare earths or coal etc.

>...Additionally the US doesn't have meaningful uranium reserves on their territory,

With next gen breeder reactors, there is enough fuel for tens of thousands of years. (Or thorium reactors might be used, etc)

>...- safety issues haven't been solved at all:

Nuclear power has proven to be the safest form of mass power we have ever created. Yes, like any power source we should worry about terrorism, but that isn't unique to nuclear power.

>...Fission is a dead end, the hope is solar, wind and battery storage.

It is possible there will be some major advances in grid storage that will allow us to stop using natural gas to cover for the intermittent nature of wind and solar. But what if that doesn't pan out? The dangers we are facing in the coming decades are immense. Is your fear of nuclear power so great that if you had to choose, you would prefer the world to suffer through catastrophic climate change rather than use nuclear power?
CSS and JS are not in opposition to "information driven". Javascript is not used merely for content-free flashy pages, and it isn't going away anytime soon. If and when it does, it'll be because something better replaced it, not because a million web developers woke up one morning and said "why don't we stop using most of the capabilities of modern browsers".

If, hypothetically, browsers stopped offering powerful scripting capabilities, the app makers of the world would not suddenly say "I guess we'll make static webpages", they'll say "here's how to install our all-powerful unsandboxed application". Powerful scripting on the web means more applications running in safe sandboxes.
Yes. That decision to continue to support is costing them a ton of money every day. The older API is very expensive, This is also why backblaze originally did not add a S3 compatibility layer.[1]

This is exactly the kind of commitment I expect from Microsoft or Amazon, it is why enterprises pay premium for a product.

In a similar situation I imagine Google would have just sent a note and with a window of few months and shutdown the old API. Great for innovation and keeping your tech cutting edge, not so much for the customers who are not as agile as they and can only move slowly if at all.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...
Exactly.

Have you ever been frustrated when your boss stops by your desk and asks "Can you just take 5 minutes and do this simple thing for me?" without any regard to all of the other work you have to do, or the fact that the task is really going to take 1-2 hours once you consider all of the nuance and downstream consequences?

This is the same situation. It's a "can't you just..." expectation of the organization without any regard to the other people or the consequences for the rest of the organization.

And like nikisweeting said, it sets a precedent. Once you start granting exceptions for not reading an e-mail to one person, you'd better be prepared to grant that same exception to everyone, otherwise you're going to end up with accusations of unfairness or prejudice very quickly.

Now that you're granting exceptions to everyone, multiply that 30 minute disruption across all of the people in the organization, and then multiply that across all of the different items on your schedule. Before you know it, you're spending half your time working with the people who can follow the rules as a group, and the other half of your time doing 1:1s with the people who would rather match the schedule to their personal convenience because they know doing so doesn't have any negative consequences.
I'm curious if you've tried Beyond Meat? Not saying it is comparable, but it is quite good in my opinion, much better than the old veggie burger options. Just interested in subjective opinions of people of how close it gets to being a viable alternative to people who currently eat meat.
As a techy person myself who doesn't care about design, where can I find techy people? Obviously not Hacker News. I'm extremely dissatisfied with Hacker News which is full of web design obsessed marketing people who aren't technically inclined at all and are the exact opposite of "hacker" in every way.
People are confusing new versions of things, or new APIs, or new products, or not recommenced anymore, with actually removing products. From this thread people are complaining about:

- Datastore -> Firestore in Datastore Mode: This was a seamless transition with no API change, Google changed the underlying tech.

- Firebase -> Firestore: Never happened. They are different products. The Firebase Realtime Database still exists.

- gcloud CLI updates: It is a CLI tool, it gets new versions.

- App Engine with Python 2.7: It still exists, you can still use it. There is a new App Engine v2 that supports Python 3.

- Cloud SQL v1 to v2: They had a tool to automatically upgrade, it set up replication and switched over.

AWS has new versions too. RDS Aurora v1 (MySQL 5.6) can't be upgraded in-place to RDS Aurora v2 (MySQL 5.7)[1]. AWS Lambda runtimes get deprecated[2].

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtime-support...
These are USA numbers correct? My numbers are whole world numbers.
The temporal dimension is just as important as space. Adding a year between eating meat and a plant-based diet also makes the alternatives more appealing.

After being meat and dairy free for awhile my cravings changed. I guess our brains are plastic? I ate (and loved!) meat for 28 years, but today I don't even crave it, and can report I enjoy food just as much as I used to. If being plant-based required will-power, I don't think I'd be able to do it.

I think it's actually easier to go all the way, and avoid meat completely, than it is to cut back. If meat is a regular, if limited, part of your diet the craving never goes away.
Something I dont think very many people realize is that cattle are raised on land that is unsuitable for practically any other purpose.

They aren't ranching in Manhatten. Leasing land for grazing brings in about $70 an acre while doing it for crops will bring in around $280 an acre. Development of course would bring in amounts that are several orders of magnitude higher. Where cattle are raised, raising cattle is the only purpose available. This is why ranches are out west in the US or in the outback in Australia.

If the world stopped raising cattle, a lot of steppes around the world would go back to being completely useless. We wouldnt free up valuable land.
So that tiktok negotiation strategies remain on the table before elections.
At the company I work the lead, who also writes the most code, is also first to recommend we use a vendor, like split.io or rollbar or sendgrid or otherwise. It's not that he's lazy or stupid, he's focusing on product, and leaving little code things to vendors. He's right too. If we had someone spend 10 days figuring out how to correctly push errors into elastic and then create a bunch of dashboards for it, we could simply save those 10 days and focus on product and instead put the saved time on a 5 year subscription to rollbar.

Just a quick edit - if we were working at Google, of course we wouldn't use another vendor. Everything within google has a google solution. Rollbar, splitio, sendgrid, Google literally has an internal product for all of these things.
I have to admit that I was asking that as a loaded question as my thinking was much like yours, but I didn't feel like typing it out. A human is probably the most reliable "AI" for the job :D.
I found that infographic very enlightening. Thanks for sharing.
Keep in mind that you're only getting one person's perspective, and that person has an incentive to pitch the situation in their favor.

Generally, if everyone else manages to show up on time but one person does not, I wouldn't assume that the organization is at fault. Even the author admits that it was his own fault for not reading the e-mail.
> Do you really want to make it a badge of honor to reinvent the wheel?

The performance review processes of FAANG-like companies tend to vastly favor building new things over any other type of code contribution. If you stay in those environments for long enough it's easy to internalize the ideology via those "best" practices in a way that feels like it was your own independent decisionmaking.

"What do you mean, throw off center? That's ridiculous! You throw the ball straight at their head if you want to hit them in the head. Everyone knows that."
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Well, I woudn't call a true Texan BBQ one made from a MCDonalds's or Burger King franchise in Spain. Or by a local Castillian farm passing the meat as a Texan one, even if both have a similar meat culture historically because of the Castillian influence in the Southern US.

If I was a Texan I would understand it.

This the same case with the Iberian Ham.
This is true, but ground stations can be colocated anywhere there’s fiber and power.
I would say providing clean water + food should always be prioritized over internet access
>If I can do my own styling and have it consistent across many sites then the web will be much more accessible.

You want to write a custom stylesheet for every site you use?
Note that you are responsible for checking some company and trademark registers for clashes with existing names before registering a .fi domain. With a quick check there is at least one trademark close enough that it could theoretically cause you a headache, though I doubt they care.

My brother's old .fi domain was taken by a company with the same name (because they have priority) and they didn't even do anything with it...
I'd like to point out something: "Mature adults know how to handle the surging hormones...."

This is not true for 99.99% of adults: proof: if adults would know how to control "hormones" they would never experience fear, doubt, anxiety,...

Issue in most cases seems to be repressed childhood emotions.
Why not both? Surely this problem is big enough to try two (and more) strategies to solve the problem.
Yeah the nuclear advocates of the world were like, "huh ok. I guess that's a perfect pitch to us to swoop in with a slightly more positive outlook."
Yes, but providing basic food and water would be cheaper than internet access, and also more important for survival...
Microsoft Account Services and Subscriptions Not Working
Apparently it's been offline for a few days

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/deployment/office365-...
>which is the reason why the browser is no longer so customisable.

That was the big one that cost a lot of users, but it was a jusitifiable big leap for them to take.

But they have also been suffering papercut after papercut power user losses with various regressions and removal of functionality since then.

The actual users lost are minimal, but I suspect the overall perception of Mozilla's priorities, among those kinds of users, has suffered much more.
A pound of meat isn't the same as a pound of carrots.

In case you're wondering about climate impact per calorie instead of per pound/kg, here's an interesting article from the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/vegetarian-or-...

I see a lot of these charts that a pound of beef vs carrots. Just seems dumb, I would have to eat far more than a pound of carrots to match the calories of a pound of beef. Most data/infographic stuff in a climate world bugs me because it's just not well presented. The overall conclusion is the same -- eating meat is a huge carbon footprint compared to vegetables. Climate change has a marketing problem.
I detest having to login to LinkedIn to view a PPT, but I’m not sure this makes it much better.
I'm not claiming it's not the authors fault, just why there might be a disconnect on how the mistake is seen, and if it appears reasonable to not allow that mistake to happen, all the while the frame of reference you are operating in has changed dramatically.
Inland hurricane-like storm sweeps US midwest, leaving widespread damage
Isn't this Trump making clear to tech executives that he is the master and they are his puppets. Trump gave a top down order to Xi Jinping to basically split up one of the fastest growing company ever and he is not a negotiation about if that is possible.

What would have happened when China just let Google in for a few years and than say "Thank you" after chopping China's part off. Everybody talking about China only doing copying is experiencing cognitive dissonance driven by ignorance of the accomplishments of Bytedance & TikTok. Google still hasn't internally launched a Tiktok clone and Faceberg can't steal a specific feature that integrates easily in his products.

People are consuming content on TikTok because it has game like cooperation baked in and is thereby more engaging than watching Youtube videos, TikTok's dopamine hack is superior to Twitter and Facebook because those have disastrous 2nd and 3th order effects which get shoveled under the denial rug of free speech and capitalism.

This event is significant because this is the first China time beat the West on execution and originality of the innovation. People are panicking because the defensible network effects of the walled gardens do not exist when China throws a better mousetrap over the fence.
Literally doing capitalism 2.0. We make it easy to use your shareholder rights to push for change among the companies and funds you invest in.

For example:
https://www.yourstake.org/petition/disclose-corporate-politi...
Two letter TLDs are reserved for country codes (ccTLD), so barring policy change and ignoring minor subtleties in the actual rules, .ux will only happen if a new country comes around and gets assigned the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code “ux”.

A more probable course of events would be “tux” being registered as a new gTLD.
We have. They run on the web, in tabs. Or, with PWAs, they look a lot more like native applications, and still run in a safe sandbox. (There are also Android and iOS apps, which are less ideal and less portable.) Why reinvent it in a less portable, less sandboxed, historically insecure manner? People have tried, and the result never ends up as useful, functional, or secure as the existing web sandbox.

When I browse the web, I know the browser puts me in control, and keeps applications contained. The only kind of app that I know will have comparable sandboxing is a PWA. Anything with a comparable amount of control will look like a web browser, and we already have the web.

If you want the world to change, you have to offer something better.
What's your definition or compression? A .tar.gz will de-duplicate files that will be re-duplicated on decompression.
"Yes."
The taskbar and basic building blocks being slow is just because Microsoft doesn't give a shit anymore (and doesn't have to, given their near-monopoly). There's no good reason something that was fast in Windows 7 on a mid-range ~2009 PC is now slow as an old pig on machines orders of magnitude faster.
I already build my personal sites to work on IE5 and up. If a 486 can do a competent job of drawing a page with some text and a few images. What possible gains do I get by piling more complexity on top?
Here is a list of the author's work. This is very consistent with "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and numerous bodies of work that highlight the tactics used. This
essay (if not an academic article) was interesting for providing more context and subtext around the drivers for the movement. It's honestly a political and economic masterclass regardless of your ethical position. https://www.jasonhickel.org/#/academic-work/
Today I learned: the idea that a corporation can commit a crime is a very new one. [1]

People commit crimes, not companies.

[1] William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 464 (1765) (“A corporation cannot commit treason or felony or other crime in its corporate capacity
though it’s members may in their distinct individual capacities.”)
That article you linked also says that the largest source of man-made methane is the oil and gas industry.
It would be pretty nifty if the latency and jitter is consistent enough to be used for basic SIP/VoIP. Under 100ms in general would be hard to notice latency much different than a mobile phone. Starlink could go as far as rolling their own VoIP service with guaranteed QoS. I would also hope during beta testing they are developing intelligent queuing to deprioritize bulk transfers, and optimize bursty traffic where latency would be most apparent.
If I’m understanding this correctly, you need to control your self-control.