skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monopoly over iOS or Android is a bit murky definition IMO. They are both creations of those companies and it seems fine for them to have a monopoly over them.

Ring devices by Amazon or Nest devices by Google can have a monopoly over the devices in their ecosystem but no one cares [yet].

Mobile computing is what Apple and Google have created and of course you need to go through them to access the users there. You have to go through MS and Sony for example to access game console users, duh!

The issue is if for example tomorrow a new company builds a nicer hardware and software package there's no easy way for users to migrate. The migration cost is super high. That company can't emulate iOS or Windows to be compatible with the existing apps. I don't think they can do a clean room reimplementation of the OS calls either. The users would need to repurchase all the apps, music, games, movies and other media they've already paid for even though none of those content were created by the platform owners.

Imagine running a web server on Azure VMs and try to migrate to AWS to GCP but then realize you need to repurchase all the stock images you used in your website and any other software you run on your servers.

I think for popular enough platforms like iOS, Android, Windows, etc. the cost of switching should be regulated. That way the quick feedback loop from consumers will ensure the platforms owners are always kept on their toes to keep all the consumers happy without relying on the moat they've built.
I remain to be convinced that encoding statistical information about syntactical manipulation alone will somehow magically convert to semantic knowledge and agency if you just try really hard and do it a lot.
Oh wow, he was at Google Waterloo when I first started and was a super nice guy.

This is a hard and terrifying read. I really feel for him.
The cited article https://www.sciencealert.com/faster-than-light-speed-in-jets... talks about particles moving faster than the phase velocity of light in a medium. This is well known phenomenon also called luminal boom; see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
> This denormalizes the tree structure into the path column - you can no longer make structural edits with small updates - but it's much faster for queries.

I think it would be perhaps more beneficial to point out that the bigger problem with this approach that typically leads people to try other avenues including recursive queries is when storage comes at a premium or the “path” makes up the bulk of the record and there is significant duplication of leading prefixes.
I fail to see how meeting someone in person is a requirement to form an opinion on them based on their public actions.

Claiming that it is, though, sure sounds like a common dismissive tactic in politics, and especially when defending people who otherwise commit undesirable, even detestable public actions ("but he's a great guy, he'd never hurt anyone" etc).
> This will address a significant bargaining power imbalance between Australian news media businesses and Google and Facebook.

This is so untrue. News Corp is easily the most powerful political entity in Australia. It’s not a stretch to say they pick prime ministers.
Sure. I don't think you should be arrested or put on the sex offenders list for taking / possessing a picture of yourself as a minor. I think it's clear from context that this is not what RMS was referring to, and I don't think your strawman argument is helpful.
Seagulls are real rascals where I live. The rude little buggers will grab your lunch right out of your hands, especially if you sit down, and become unobservant for a second. But here's a neat trick. Just look them in the eyes. This will make them really uneasy. An informal test is to put your lunch down on the ground while you stare into their hungry eyes. Usually they won't dare to grab it, or they'll stay insecure longer, before making an attempt. Some will just straight out fly off, once you start to give them the evil eye. And about that, another great way to get rid of birds, is to start walking around them like someone stalking them for dinner. They won't stay long if you give off predator vibes.
TPUs and waferscale hardware beg to differ.
Well that’s Epic’s argument, so it’s the question that the courts will resolve in this case.
Your property was stolen by someone too, long ago (or maybe not so long ago, depending on where you live). You gonna return that too?

Everything is stolen; nothing is stolen.
I live in a car and I’ll never be able to afford to have children.
If you build a controller for a single nuclear reactor, a bang-bang controller is indeed pretty simple once you know how to build an SR latch.

Scaling that to multiple reactors becomes complex because you can no longer control reactors independently and still get adjacency bonuses from them operating together. Further, there are complexities from emergent behavior that you have to control for. Steam turbines, like steam engines, auto scale steam consumption to power demand. The problem is they don’t do it uniformly. If you have 2 turbines attached to 2 tanks and you only need 1, the game might consume all of 1 tank first, leaving you with the 50% burst capacity. It becomes a big problem with day/night cycles and solar/accumulators in the grid.

I never tried to balance this, but I suppose it’s possible by building a circuit to link together all tanks and shut off their flow when one‘s storage deviates too much from the average. This sounds really complex to me and not worth it.

I’ve explained to the best of my understanding of the game engine’s behavior, but I know that fluid mechanics is also inaccurate and complex to design for. There’s a known issue with flow behaving asymmetrically. One reason is because the game updates state in a certain order, so water and steam flow with a bias for certain directions (n, s, e, w).

Also, thanks for teaching me a term from control theory (1)

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang–bang_control
So goes the old teachers’ proverb: “Tell me and I forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I understand.”
They use Google Classroom for tracking work and Zoom for various video calls (full class, small groups, student 1:1, and teacher 1:1). The work is often assigned on other sites:

- Nearpod

- Classdojo

- Raz Kids

- BetterChinese

- Zearn

Probably others too.
The article outlines a very nuanced detailing of how to answer that question, but I have a more blunt first consideration: If you need kubernetes, you don't need to ask whether you need it.

Basically, I think that a team/product knows when the time has come in which the infrastructure has grown in complexity so much for it to need something like kubernetes to orchestrate it. If there are doubts, then whatever current setup is in place* is probably still enough and kubernetes is beyond what the team requires.

I am very proud of the one time I managed to convince both my then tech lead and project manager, in one of my past jobs, to move away from kubernetes into a simpler architecture leveraging docker, compose and PaaS.

* Hopefully one using docker and compose or similar, as mentioned in the article.
Fun coincidence, I’m reading “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates and I just picked it back up and read:

“... young students like me who confused agitprop with hard study.”
which nuclear doesn't solve

Please expand. How does France handle peaks, having almost 3/4 of their electricity coming from nuclear?
I don't like working with mobile / laptop parts except for user replaceable, or very easy ones. They make all kind of decisions with no repairability in mind. It can be very error prone. All that said, IDK how hard a MBP battery is. The HTC m8 I tried to replace the battery on, it was one of the last parts you could remove and a bit of a mess of wires, glue, ribbon, and tape. Of course that was a cell phone and a laptop should be easier.
I think autograd and its suffusion into the modern tools for machine learning development is initiating a paradigm shift. If you haven't already, check out the SciML ecosystem in Julia. One can leverage it to build machine learning models that can slot right into any existing simulator, dynamical system, or any other method to represent systems to fit to data, and the gradients will be handled appropriately through the entire language natively.

This video is from a talk at JuliaCon 2020 and is about the SciML ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwVO0Xh2Hbg

For more info, check out https://sciml.ai/

I am not affiliated with them, but really admire their work and think it will become an invaluable tool in the coming years as the limits of neural networks become apparent and we stop running out of little tricks to squeeze one more SOTA paper out of them.
My first foray into buying stocks in the U.S. was with Robinhood, nothing about the app screamed "gamble away your hard earned money" or "make poor financial decisions" so I'm baffled how people label it as some kind of stock casino and absolve people of personal responsibility, but that's just me..YMMV
Ex-CIA officer arrested for allegedly selling secrets to China
It’s true that we can’t know how much cheaper Apple products would be if the antitrust laws didn’t exist, and that some people (and not only shareholders) benefit from or prefer a less competitive market. But conversely, we don’t know how much worse things might be if there were no laws to keep “bigness” in check. I am convinced by the history of antitrust that competition regulators do more good than harm.
> unless you want to make a toy program, you end up with hundreds of dependencies

One way to avoid this is to choose a programming language (e.g. Python or Go) that has a "batteries included" standard library. If you choose your dependencies from that standard library whenever possible, it's likely that they will be maintained for as long as the language itself.

Using the standard library may not be the fastest way to solve your problem, and it won't be the "coolest", but it probably will be the approach with maximum longevity.

Unfortunately this solution doesn't work quite as well if you're using a language with a poor standard library - for example when writing JavaScript code to run in the browser. I wrote one project using an open-source HTML canvas library, only to see the library abandoned shortly after. Since then, I've avoided those libraries in favor of using the raw canvas API - it's significantly more work, but it will be supported for decades instead of just a couple of years. I've decided to avoid Bootstrap and its "long-term support means 3 years" in the same way.

> Even having someone paid to do the work doesn't seem like it matters anymore

In fact, I think commercial solutions may be more likely to be abandoned than free ones. I'd trust Python's community of enthusiastic volunteers to maintain their language for longer than I trust Google to maintain Go.
Languages need not by defined by how they compile. (If they do, we tend to call it "desugaring".) At the very least, they usually compile to multiple ISAs, and none is more definitive than the other.

I am happy to define how to translate Multicode to Unicode, but I wouldn't want any of the internal notions of Multicode to be defined in terms of that translation.
I don't really understand why Apple is allowed to have the amount of power it has today: it provides the hardware, the operating system, the software store (which they make sure is the only way to get software for most users), _and_ gets to decide whether any particular piece of software is allowed on the store? Surely there needs to be some separation of powers? e.g. a third party (could be set up by the government or in some other ways) will review the apps and Apple only maintains the software store without having much power over the contents in the store.

It was understandable at the time when everything was uncharted territory so Apple got to do whatever it wanted, but now that smart phones are so tightly integrated into the lives of many people, it seems Apple shouldn't be allowed to hold on to all those power. Is anything being done in that direction that might become effective?
> 1. The ability to install skins outside of the V-bucks store.

Isn’t this like allowing mods, custom maps etc? So CounterStrike, DoTA, etc shouldn’t exist?

Honestly I started off on the fence but now I’m 100% against Apple here, and I’m an iOS dev. This is kinda crazy.
Agreed the title makes no sense.

I kept waiting for the article to get to the title, it didn't.
Deep learning doesn't need to consume more energy. We are doing enough of that as it is.

Instead, we need to start moving toward more efficient and specialized implementations of statistical models. SciML is a great example of how we can move past the age of amorphous black boxes and into more efficient representations of the same problems.
Capitalism inherently resists corruption more than other systems because nobody is expected to work for anyone's interest but their own.

Systems like socialism and communism require some central economic decision authority which controls what people can eat, drive, where they can work and travel and live. These people are expected to do this for the good of others, yet they hold tremendous power. Such power attracts corruption and cannot be defended from it. So socialist systems always become hopelessly corrupt as the do-gooders are instantly outcompeted in the race for power by people who only care about power. Because of course the power-hungry will gain power better than those who want power only to do good; the power hungry are fighting 100% for the goal while the do-gooders are fighting for another goal as well. It's no contest.

Worse, since that central authority has both economic and police power over people, there's no practical way to replace it. A corrupt corporation can be peacefully outcompeted or allowed to die, but the government itself cannot be - it must be overthrown with mass violence.

Systems like anarchy require that individuals self-organize into collectives and work for the good of the collective instead of the good of themselves. Of course such systems become corrupt 5 minutes after scaling beyond Dunbar's number, because there's no mechanism to punish free-riders (aside from some kind of mob justice, or a hyper-invasive police authority).

Unlike socialism, capitalism is decentralized. The government doesn't need to hold so much authority over the details of peoples' lives - where they work, what they eat, where they travel - so there's nothing to corrupt. There is no center of power to corrupt, nowhere for the power-hungry to steal from the do-gooders. There is only the contest to make money; a single goal which is inherently attractive since it brings status and wealth and sex, but when you accomplish this goal you also do good as a side-effect.

So it's not democratic institutions preventing corruption in capitalism. Capitalism is inherently resistant to corruption in a way that socialism and anarchism aren't, because the individual incentives are aligned.
Sorry about that. Not at the moment, but we'll consider adding a light mode for both the website and the app.
> The price of a product in a competitive market tends to its marginal cost

Long run marginal cost. Which will be higher than the cost per unit. You can’t sustain a market when you can’t cover fixed costs. Just look at what happened to Detroit.
This is a good workaround! Thanks for suggesting it.
Deer and Elk have very dark eyes. https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/game_management/deer/im...

Some sunglasses (probably not all) kinda look like 2 dark circles with a gap between. If you can make the cat second guess it sometimes is all it takes to make it look for other game. They really don't like to eat us anyways from what I hear.
What Firewall Rule(s) Will Allow Windows Update and Only Windows Update to Work
Hey, I think I meet these requirements, I have degree in physics, have some computational physics experience from classes doing some simple parallelization of nonlinear system (bug population) but have had a hard time bridging the gap to breaking into tech. I do have an idea and having a mentor would be very helpful, I was wondering where I could dm you. Thank you
Did you read the link you just posted? Seriously. It clearly states what I said, and contradicts what you said. As per YOUR LINK, you don't need a monopoly for antitrust; just "the ability to raise prices above those that would be charged in a competitive market."

Apple unambiguously has this with their app store.
Survivor Library
So you're effectively saying that Apple must allow a user to install malware (likely unintentionally), but then Apple is also responsible for paying to fix it?

I feel like I have to be misunderstanding you because that makes no sense.
No agency, that requires the model manipulating the model, and no one else being able to. And if you want true agency - no kill switch. Though idk why we’d want to create anything close to true agency, seems like a pretty dumb idea imo.
Tree Views
I agree that computer science isn't a social science, but I think the social aspects of computer science have a lot more to do with what computer science grads do than upper bounds on algorithms. Most of what we're doing is about making products more attractive to customers.
I have a hard time understanding where apl/j/k maintenance costs could be higher than java / c#

As A. Hsu say, a java method name is long enough to encode a complete algorithm. the drag of having to maintain MLoC of boilerplate with all the opportunities for bad naming, bad style, NPE and such is so huge.
Factory farms help with the numbers. You can keep pigs more dense even if they don't depend upon the area for the source of feed - just like humans and urban density. A high density in 1 acre ks perfectly plauisble but it ignores the feed crop acres. At that point efficency should be total crop calories * pig efficency margin (10% for standard trophic level to back of the envelope) / (acres of corn + acres of pig).

If you took the density scale to something really absurd the pig acre efficiency would be the crop times the multiplier as that space converges eventually converges to becomes negligible and just "pig efficency * feed crop calorie/acre" effectively. Granted the effective convergence point may not be realistic without real world data but if factory farms are big enough it comes out to the same order of magnitude as brocoli about 1.5 vs 2. Of course there are a lot of other things to legitimagely object to about said arrangement but it surpringly lines up to be comparable to vegetable crops in caloric efficiency.

A more in depth answer would look at the caloric share of diets in consumption - most people don't get their bulk calories from vegetables.
Logical reading order of god-tier programming books
[Either [Latin] [Cyrillic]] is a very simply type taking advantage that the language only switches at word boundary.
It really was a great machine for the price, and despite all the defects you mention above was really a very productive machine. The mistake people in the industry/press made was judging it against the Amiga as a games or graphics machine; it really was more of a productivity machine that could also play games pretty okay. It slotted between a PC and a Mac in terms of style and architecture; Mac-like GUI but MS-DOS or CP/M style OS.

It's not a surprise all the hardware corner cutting and oversights and omissions (no blitter until it was too too late ...) because the modus operandi was Rock Bottom Price and they were racing against the clock to get it out before Commodore could launch the Amiga.

But I feel it really fell over because of the Tramiel's odd cutthroat business style. They screwed their retailers, and they did a terrible job on software development. Hardly anything was done on the OS after the initial rather brilliant release. They just didn't invest in it until they did a big burst of quality work on it when they hired Eric Smith and brought MiNT in house etc. around the turn of the decade and the release of the Falcon and the TT030. But by then... too late.
The test was to run "SELECT 1" using the low-level ADO.NET database query API in a tight loop. This is the relevant metric, as it represents the performance ceiling. It doesn't matter how fast the packets can get on the wire if the application can't utilise this because of some other bottleneck.

Of course, the underlying TCP latency is significantly lower. Using Microsoft's "Latte.exe" testing tool, I saw ~50 μs in Azure with "Accelerated Networking" enabled. As far as I know, they use Mellanox adapters.

Something I found curious is that no matter what I did, the local latency wouldn't go below about 125 μs. Neither shared memory nor named pipes had any benefit. This is on a 4 GHz computer, so in practice this is the "ultimate latency limit" for SQL Server, unless Intel and AMD start up the megahertz war again...

It would be an interesting exercise comparing the various database engines to see what their latency overheads are, and what their response time is to trivial queries such as selecting a single row given a key.

Unfortunately, due to the DeWitt clauses in EULAs, this would be risky to publish...
How much have you played with GPT3?
Every repair to my iPhone that has been done outside of Apple certified channels has ended in needing a replacement device. Have heard/ read some horror stories of Apple Store repairs, although have yet to experience any myself. Personally I haven’t had a single repair from a third party that has actually been passable.

All this to say that I’m not really seeing a huge benefit of right to repair for consumers. A race to the bottom in price means that there’s no money left to pay/train repair techs well enough to perform the repairs properly (i.e. without taking shortcuts/rushing & thereby causing further problems). This has been my experience so far with the third party shops vs Apple Certified.
TBH I think I'd feel more comfortable with something like "Max Headroom" without the stuttering, or something similar to "Spitting Image". Why does some business need to fake being human, when it's just some UML/BON/ERIL executed all over the cloud in some containerized environments?
> Why did we think Microsoft was a monopoly?

They had 94% market share in 1990's. They actually invested in Apple to keep them from going under.
What about creating cities near energy resources, like remote hydropower dams?
Generally standing up to a bully is noble, :)
Or maybe if they stick together they can change Apple's mind.
enough to know it's ELIZA on steroids. Neat party trick, and there's no there there.
My Week of Radical Transparency at a Chinese Business Seminar
> Antitrust needs no monopoly to enforce.

I'm not sure why you think this? Sure, certain Sherman Act violations (e.g. price fixing) do not require monopoly power to be considered illegal, but the specific claims in Epic's lawsuit (unlawful monopoly maintenance) definitely require proof of monopoly power.
Is there a way to automate the data updating using JSON file?
They actually gave 2 options. If you didnt trust the game maker and their discount you could continue paying the premium to Apple directly and continue feeling safe.
In the committed notebook the final training loss for play_char was 0.30588. Yet my training got down to 0.02638. Odd. Either way the resulting model seems to be just as good/bad. Like char-rnn it's amazing to see it spell words from scratch consistently. It has a good grasp on structure and even a passable grasp on grammar. But also like char-rnn it lacks any ability to form coherent sentences.

EDIT: I'm running it on the IMDB dataset now ... just to see.
May I ask, what project did you build?
I broke an iphone a couple of years ago while replacing the battery. I follower all the instructions but some small part accidentally snapped. I swore Id never touch such tiny corcuitry ever and instead go to a repair guy who charges quite decently, depending on the model. Sometimes its now worth fixing it, the parts and fixing fee are a bit above buting a refurb.