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Management left unchecked just does what they're incentivized to do. You can't pass on the blame as shareholders when shareholders create incentive packages that reward getting a bonus today for an acquisition instead of not really getting paid for sustainably growing the business over the next decade.
"Don't use a web app that has an extremely constrained permissions model and only has access to the files you explicitly grant it using the file picker, use a native app that has unconstrained access to everything!"
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I am no fan of IAP-laden games but there’s a lot of stuff skins with no obvious game effect do in a multiplayer game.

* status games - I have this old/hard to get/expensive skin and you do not.

* social games - me and my buddies all dress identically/similarly. Gang colors, the All-Shrek Squad, GTA’s roving gangs of purple/green alien gangs...

* role play games - does dressing up like Superman make you want to play the game differently than dressing up like Little Bo Peep, or like Freddy Krueger?

This has very little effect on a single player game (though I know I sure do spend a while making my character look cool in games with character creation and visible equipment) but “choosing your visual style” is an important part of social signaling.

And of course selling this stuff to the captive audience in your popular game is a pretty nice way to keep a small army of artists busy cranking out stuff, so you don’t have to worry about firing them while the next big project is in the planning stages. Or to just have a giant cash cow of a gentle IAP funnel with a few bits of whale bait here and there.
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In a prior post the founder claimed that there are ways to deal with that. After all, AIUI stocks in the States are already actually held by the Depository Trust Corporation, so the system already deals with indirection.
I am wondering if it would be a huge project to create an "http server" kind of Wasm binary. With php, rails or whatever server-side scripting a given project is using. I guess it would still require some quite extensive changes to the served HTML and js.

My use-case would be to create single instances of a server-side project, for demonstration purposes, or serverless operation. Things like providing a webapp for https://kanboard.org or NextCloud.

As a bonus, this could be combined with webtorrent, or other distributed mechanisms to let multiple "servers" interoperate seamlessly, regardless of their server/client usage. Of course, this can already be done today, but the Fediverse usually relies on DNS and certificates, while few server-side apps are completely distributed. This could provide an incentive, and ultimately make it easier to self-host (maybe even ultimately running the Wasm binaries instead of docker containers).
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This Boilerplate is destined to change the game. A scaleable architecture built with TypeScript will ensure that your servers stay running while having the best static site generator in the game
In which case you could easily blow all fuses, sign your malicious firmware with the all-fuses key and you're good to go.
How would you even know that? Most of the value in terms of pesos would be from a small number of wealthy people who have a very strong interest in secrecy, and are likely using VPNs and other means to shield their activities. My guess is that, for wealthy people who are somewhat tech savvy or know someone who is who they can trust, it's a very good option. Certainly better than sending relatives on a plane with $9k in USD cash to get it to a relative abroad for safe keeping.
My daughter got a scholarship that covers her tuition 100%, so she only needed loans to cover room and board. Federal oans were still not enough to cover this, in one of the least expensive state schools.
My credit sucks and we didn't qualify for a cosigned loan to cover the extra. Luckily the school offers a reasonable payment plan and I'm taking advantage of that.

She is just living in a dorm with a standard meal plan. Between this extra out of pocket cost and the books, I can't see how a lower income family could afford college.
Also makes sense as they are in the best position to estimate the risk.
It's been tried in the UK (south east), nothing positive come out of it.
The best thing they can do is get out of the way
> Ah yes, the lofty government subsidy of x < $600 on average per family that has enough taxable income to receive the CDCTC (x < $100 all families with children)[0].

You chose one particularly inexpensive subsidy, and ignored everything else. 200 days/year of free childcare is not free. Maternity/paternity leave is coming out of someone's pocket. Many social programs are heavily skewed towards children (SNAP participants are around 1/2 children, despite them only being 1/4 of the population, for example).

I'm not saying we shouldn't do these things - modern society makes having children expensive, and it's obviously best for all of us if we ensure some base level of care for them. But we don't have to pretend it isn't happening.
In an ideal marketplace the best product is selected on it's merit.

Brand loyalty, vendor lock-in, financial leverage, etc. are all attempts to interfere with free market, to prevent a consumer moving to a competitor.

There is also no reason you can't have integration between different vendors, in fact thats what standards are for. Apple, etc. are notorious for refusing to integrate to protect their advantage.

The have the right to do that to some, limited, extent, but to advocate it as good for the consumer is just self-delusion.
I wholeheartedly agree - I absolutely view quality journalism as an essential part of an accountable and transparent state.

Good journalism, which IMHO should strive for a degree of impartiality[0], is needed to hold administrations at all levels to account.

[0] humans are clearly imperfect mind
At the low (and, to a lesser degree, middle) tiers? It's more than just a good idea -- it's a survival strategy. Why? Because you can't knock out custom, 20-page-proposal solutions for all the small fry or you'll spend all your time on that.

Packaged/productized solutions allow you to sell a repeatable product off the shelf at higher margins (ideally) or at a lower/competitive price point (more likely in a crowded space).

Once you hit scale? Well, it depends on your strategy and what you're selling but there's no shame in your game if you leave the productized world behind or dial back on it. Bigger clients in professional services usually have more margin (because admin/overhead doesn't evolve as quickly as billable hours with them) and lots of upsell opportunity, so you may decide to focus on that.

If you do dive into productized offerings, don't just create packages -- create packages that lend themselves to natural upsell breakpoints.

What that could look like in raw consulting:

* Design an assessment package that essentially defines the problem and tells them how to think about solving it rather than solving it.

* Then design a package that lays out the plan but not the implementation.

* Then package implementation in time- or milestone-bound chunks that create breakpoints for strategic account review, which is just a 50-cent word for sitting down with the client to look things over and adjust scope upwards.
It makes me wonder if you have a case for demanding a new CPU from Dell, et al, if you unknowingly put a CPU on one of their boards. You do, as far as I can tell.
Weekly? Several times per day. Mind you, I'm going with the flow and I'll be more than happy to do things that way too, it is the competitive arena we live in and if you can't fight them join them. But I do feel that the code I wrote in the past was more mature, higher quality and had more longevity in it simply because the pace wasn't so idiotically high.
My personal experience with Haskell hackers went like this:

-I used to hang out at lambda-the-ultimate, in which haskell was considered god sent and c++ a toy language. At the time, I was heavy into writing simulation software, which meant c++ all the way, so I tried to understand haskell and its advantages over c++, but my attempts ended up being mocked. I stopped visiting that site.

-I tried to open some debates about Haskell on reddit, where someone told me they will answer my haskell questions only if I told them a specific mathematical definition on some properties of functions. I didn't know the reply, I was a programmer after all, not a mathematician. Said person left me in the cold.

-again on reddit, I was trying the debate the usefulness of haskell regarding simulation software, which relies heavily on updating variables, but I never got straight answers. To this day, I still do not know if haskell code actually can update variables in place or it only simulates updating of variables. Someone suggested using lens, and although I understand the abstraction, it still has not solved my question if haskell can update variables in place.

Why I was so interested in this aspect, i.e. in place updating? I wrote simulation software and after that game software for a living, and it matters to me because I want to be able to reason about the performance of my program. I don't want to have data be duplicated behind my back.

To cut the long story short, my haskell questions go unanswered to this day, I was very disappointed, and since I have great experience in imperative programming languages, I usually write programs that are correct as soon as they are compiled, which is what the haskell advantage is supposed to be. So I don't see any benefit from haskell, and I won't recommend it to my company or my colleagues.

Am I wrong regarding haskell? perhaps, but I am not interested any more in 'trying out' languages of dubious gains, nor am I interested in dealing with juvenile behaviors. I tried Rust because it had a serious advantage over C++ (namely, object lifetimes), and I will recommend Rust, but my patience for and interest in haskell is virtually non-existent at this point.
I think Wasm outside the browser could benefit package managers. As far as I know, Rust and some other compiled languages distribute their crates/packages in source code form, which then have to be compiled before use. If packages were distributed in Wasm (plus headers/type declarations), you could JIT or quickly AOT compile them. Plus, you’d get safety guarantees to make sure a package isn’t doing anything it hasn’t been permitted to do.
> Tidyverse in general, I believe, has saved R from irrelevance.

It’s interesting that you say this. I’ve been using R daily for almost 3 years now, and I was originally taught the Tidyverse.

However, I also tutored in biostats and have collaborated with many different faculty and students.

On one hand the Tidyverse created an opening for R learners especially, but it has lead to some controversy as well.

Trust me when I say there are plenty of R users who have never heard of or used the Tidyverse.

It leads to some difficulty in teaching/collaborating because do I use grepl or str_detect? lapply or map? Do they know the magrittr syntax (%>%)?

Then there’s non-standard evaluation, which often forces some arbitrary meta-programming on novice programmers.

R is foremost the stats language, and tidyverse has attempted to make it more general purpose, for better or worse depending on who you ask.
C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept according to TIOBE
Honestly, R will be fine, even apart from tidyverse.

There's a huge shadow universe of scientists running particular R packages for these analyses, which never gets seen from HN/programmers.

While Python is definitely (sadly, IMO) a better language for building ML systems (because more people know it, and it's harder to write impenetrable code), R is definitely a better DSL for statistical analysis, modelling and graphics.

It's a shame that R takes its lineage from a language developed in the 70's (S), as that's a cause of many of the inconsistencies in the core language.
Agree sounds like a straw man argument from the previous comment. I really don't think parents are down 50%.
Both Democrats and Republicans acknowledge that the Great Recession was caused by government housing policy. So presumably - if we had a small government with no Fed - we would also have no Fannie Mae and the Great Recession would have never happened.
GP is indeed amongst them, though I admit I was not clear in my original statement. Chimps (and our chimp-like ancestors) both developed culture, warfare And the beginnings of language. In this sense, ‘human-ness’ is a continuum. For culture see this fascinating material...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/animal-fashion-som...
My eyes are wide open. I agree with private property. But we're not talking backyards and prestine grasslands. These are remote rocky old mining trails, logging trails, and train tracks. I ain't saying there is any easy solution. I just miss riding like I used to be able.
If the CPU doesn't perform as advertised you can always return it. The only hope here may be putting enough pressure on Dell and whoever else to make their components worthless on the second hand market.

I've been involved in more than one purchasing decision where the ability to resell the parts was factored into the sticker price.
People complain when google does what you are proposing too. Just look at how many people are aggravated about updating their apps to new android sdk versions, for example.
Do the leg work and provide your manager options with a clear recommendation, with costs. That could be hardware purchase, cloud options in GCP or AWS for a PoC short and longer term.

Start small and build from it. Then look to standardize where and how you do ML.

This sounds like a good opportunity to greenfield ML and create something new.
a) it is unlikely the majority of the web will "switch to WASM"

b) what does "switching to WASM" mean for you? If it still generates a DOM or access a private API, many scraping techniques don't care.
> > “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to keep the paying customers, don't ya?
Indian armed-forces cantonments are amazing. Practically the best place to live in India.

Incredible schooling, all the resources you need and a level of security that provides a ton of freedom.

I can practically pick out someone who has grown up on a cantonment. Everything from their demeanor, breadth of skills and a very special kind of cynical liberalism immediately gives it away.
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While your application is not accepted by the Apple's app store, I encourage to publish your application as webapp
See my post above, that's already the case. I was able to setup a payment plan for the last part of my daughters tuition, about $100 /month. She had a scholarship for 100% of tuition and still couldn't get enough federal loans to cover room and board for the year at Purdue.

Luckily she also had some money saved for books, but there are plenty of families that couldn't afford this.
I've been consciously and slowly applying this technique more and more. I've noticed several things in the process.

1. Parkinson's Law is real. Most requests for help are people just creating work for you that they could, with a small amount of effort, solve themselves. By not responding to trivial requests, you encourage people to learn to solve their own problems. The invariably do, and in doing so never need to ask you again.

2. Problems cluster together. It's also frequently more efficient to solve many clustered problems in one go than it is to solve them one at a time as they pop up. Instead of constantly working on my wife's Windows laptop solving the annoyance of the day, I now give it a lashing once a month.

3. Delaying decisions is a good thing. You will have more information the longer you wait. Many times you will make a different, better decision later than you would if you had pulled the trigger early.
I live in a small town, about 20min away from the larger city, with FTTH and reasonable cost of living. There are disadvantages to living in the country (you have to drive everywhere), but it's just a balance.I definitely enjoy zero crime, no traffic, fresh air and a large lot so I am not crammed with my neighbors. The downside is that I can't walk everywhere, but that is fine.
No conversation about England and housing is complete without discussing Right to Buy where affordable public housing is privatised and then has its value rapidly rise to meet market prices.
>This is time off specifically to take care of children

I think this is the crux of the problem that some people have. I am happy to work for a company that allows flexible schedules to help parents. I have no qualms about shouldering additional burdens to help. However, there is a certain percentage of opportunists who take advantage of the situation and confuse this generosity with entitlement. I have some suspicions that some of this time is being used for side projects rather taking care of kids. I have multiple coworkers who have installed new pools/patios during this flex period and will occasionally even cut online meetings short to oversee some of the work being done at their house. It does cause me to raise my eyebrows when they can't get their workload done because of they feel entitled to a certain amount of extra benefits.

I think people need to feel like everyone is pulling for the same mission and part of the same team. I'm grateful to be in a position to help ease other people's stress but leaders need to make sure everyone is still accountable and not taking advantage of the situation.
Isn't that roughly what server side includes are? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
You are right. The actual number for a nuclear reactor is 13 140 000 MWh. (1000MW * 18 months). But I figure people would get the idea better.
You don’t treat a couple hundred thousand dollars as an investment? Sounds privileged.
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If renting a 3,500 USD camera costs 70 USD, the return is 2%, so less voluntary parting rate of 0.02% this is still 1.98%. Or in other words, KitSplit can theoretically cover the risks by taking an additional 1% of the profit earned by the person renting out the camera.
One thing I tend to see a lot (90% of requests) is from people who are stuck with mediocre CRMs and want better analytics and email reporting than they’re given. The only way to accomplish anything is to spoof login and scrape because the only api is through “partners” who either pay a premium or are giant.

I turn these requests down because it’s a ticking time bomb when you add in the element of login (password resets, 2FA, another point of change). On the other hand, I wonder how different this is from what Plaid does...
I predict Oscar ratings going to new lows. Last time I heard, they were already not doing great. [1]

[1]: https://people.com/movies/oscars-2020-lowest-ratings-shows-h...
>the median merger destroys shareholder value for the acquiring company.

Median doesn't seem like the right metric. If you measured VC by median outcome I'm sure it looks like they always fail.
This is "Open File" and "Save File" taken API form. Right now web apps can already read and save files with uploads and downloads. This just allows the user to pass a file descriptor to the app rather than a copy of the file's contents.
Tidyverse is much, much harder to write functions for, which is pretty bad for beginners. The API is lovely, but the non-standard evaluation causes real problems for people.

True story: writing tidyverse functions is so hard that I once worked for a company with business critical code running in incredibly long R-scripts with almost no functions, and 100 line pipes.

While that may be an extreme example, base-R is much, much easier to get started writing functions for (like I've been using R for a decade now, and the "idiomatic" way to use NSE with ggplot and dplyr has changed multiple times over that time).

Meanwhile, base-R is fugly, but its solid and backwards-compatible to a fault.
> The state's evolution will be completely equivalent to (a linear superposition of) the evolution of |x>|x> and |y>|y>. That's a physically observable fact that's independent of your choice of basis (it's less obvious in the |z>/|w> basis, but it's still true).

Of course the state can be written in the form |xx> + |yy>. I never denied that. The point is that it can be written in other forms. So it's equally correct to say we'd "experience"
|zz> + |ww> + |zw> + |wz> as to say we'd experience |xx> + |yy> so there's no reason to say we'd "obviously" experience only the latter. Your argument is just "that expansion is always available", but since other expansions are also always available I don't see what the force of this argument is.

Even worse in QFT there isn't an expansion of the form |xx> + |yy> available due to the Reeh-Schleider theorem so your whole construction is moot anyway. Again where is this paper deriving the Born rule from unitarity and basic facts about subjective experience.

> I don't know what you're trying to claim here. All the available evidence is that measurement devices, being ordinary physical objects, follow the laws of quantum mechanics, and that includes conditioning behaving as entanglement.

I'm claiming a consequence of a well known theorem from Quantum Probability. See section 4.2 of this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1484

Quantum states without superselection (e.g. the entangled states of the form you are considering) leave Bayesian conditioning undefined. As the paper mentions this is a direct consequence of the Kochen-Specker theorem via non-unique orthogonal expansion. It's not a red herring but a rigorously proved theorem.

I don't know what the "Nobel prize" remark is about as it is well known that entanglement doesn't give well-defined conditioning. That's why entanglement with the device alone is called "pre-measurement" in most papers in measurement theory following terminology introduced by Zurek in the early 80s. A good example of the issues with pre-measurement alone is here https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07464. You can't just treat the device as simply entering some CHSH or GHZ style entangled state and think that solves everything about measurement. It doesn't via the theorem I gave in the paper above (and other issues).
Sounds like Obama doesn't know why he got it either:

Barack Obama on Stephen Colbert: 'To be honest, I still don’t know what my Nobel Peace Prize was for'