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As much as I agree with the core of what you are saying, it isn't AdMob that is the issue. It's that Google controls both the marketplace, the pub-side and the buy-side, as well as the browser and the devices used to experience ads. Apple is now aiming for a similar level of control in the ad space very blatantly using their ownership of the platform to do what they want to power themselves up.

This vertical integration in the space is what drives the anti-competitive behavior, if the Google buy-side were a separate company that happened to acquire AdMob there would be no real issues as they don't control the whole stack.

FB on the other hand sells a service and lets companies use their APIs to integrate as well as competing with them via their internal sales team.

These companies can do this only because you are forced to work with them because they own such a large part of internet traffic, not because they offer particularly good services or have better technology or prices.
I think GP was talking about internal software. Since business requirements are prone to change a lot, don’t blame the developers that the software needs to change.
Starbucks didn't kill it. Consumers did. Startbucks came to Australia and mostly failed (had to close lots of stores) as the local coffee culture is very strong. Starbucks was mostly ignored.
Someone get the oldies a room – 100M year old crustaceans caught in amber mating
lol.. what's MOD-L language? The only reference I can find is that it's part of some simulation software named ExtendSIM
To my knowledge, the US government has wide ranging powers to prevent and break up monopolies. Thanks to standard oil and at&t.

The acquisition needed approval:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/closing-le...

It's just that the current political climate (including democrats) seem to favour non-intervention.
It’s the cost for some. If you’re rich enough you pay far less tax because you have access to an army of people whose job it is to help you do that. They leave us suckers to pay.

That’s not right. I think more of people who pay their fair share. Feels like a moral issue for me.
Sure. But people also like things to move smoothly and look nice.
I think if you remove consciousness from the equation, identifying causality would be a reasonable response to why. However, there is an underlying assumption that causality actually exists. In that case, I think the existence of causality would have to be taken as axiomatic.
I love this. 8-2 is all about the donor (how he feels, how morally it is) and basically 1 is about the recepiant what would be best for him/her.

It is like results matter most (less than the process; big corps will disagree on that)
You can use ADA without the Formal verification part. I would say at least for embedded systems it's more productive than C because it has a much stronger and expressive type system. E.g. if you do a lot of fixed-point math, ADA's type system can express it. ADA has proper arrays, with bounds checks. ADA has built-in multithreading.

ADA is a very productive language for embedded systems, much more so than C. But people are afraid of the language, because they think it's difficult. People don't want to learn it because they think it's old, although ADA 2012 is a much more modern language than C11, it hasn't stagnated as much, but it also evolved more deliberately than C++, keeping it's focus on useful features, instead of adding all the features. At the same time it makes a lot of things easier in an embedded context, because it was designed exactly for this use-case.

The only issues are the lack of developers and the ugly syntax, but I think any C developer could learn what they need to be productive in a month, and the syntax you can get used to.
Because that is all the Google apps are really, are one iteration of a group of apps for functionality. You can always use F-Droid and install great open source alternatives.
Did any public official get financial incentives to partner up with Apple?
That page is titled: "JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview)"
This has to be the funniest and most gratifying thing I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Great job!
I said it was slightly worse in this case and sibling commenters have addressed this issue.

The experimental car shouldn't have been on the road at all if the only thing separating it from killing people is someone who is expected to maintain concentration for hours/days while simultaneously not actually doing anything.
You are you. Other people work differently. If you want to hear how a power user uses overlapping windows I’d recommend listening to this ATP episode: https://atp.fm/96
Ignorance is a bliss! Love it.
No word on the ARM deal and how they might be affected. They likely don't want to ruffle feathers before the dust is even settled, but I must wonder what is going through their heads. Hopefully they are looking into what it would take to put together a RISC-V SBC.
Audio APIs were released as recently as last year that are used for widespread fingerprinting via audio hardware latency information that is available with no notice to the user and without their permission, even on websites with zero audio.

This simply isn't true. That's not even the only recent API that Chrome has spearheaded that is being abused by ad networks and other nefarious actors.
They've certainly been available commercially at various points. If you search for microCHP, you'll find them. I can't see that any of the big manufacturers are currently making them, though. Honda and Baxi used to have residential stirling engine CHP boiler models that seem to be discontinued.

Currently, I think the Senertec Dachs might be closest to what you're after in size, although it's based on a conventional four-stroke, not a stirling engine. The residential CHP market seems to be shifting to fuel cells.
I never looked into this but couple of links show that it's much more than $6/Million views.

> On average, my videos that have over 1,000,000 views have usually earned between $2,000-$5,000.

https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-how-much-youtube-paid-me-...

Some more links -

https://turbo.intuit.com/blog/relationships/how-much-do-yout...
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Are you suggesting that we should just let people die in all cases where left alone they would die naturally? Where do you draw the line?
hm, no word on performance comparison with badger, bolt, moss, pogreb, pudge...
Dunno why this had to be region-locked, it's not like people outside of the US can't speak english.
L3Harris awarded $53M for B-1B bomber countermeasure system
FSF GNAT (from your distribution) can be freely used. The GNAT that makes output GPL is the GPL GNAT edition downloaded from AdaCore's website.
Yeah, because Elon is obviously where he is now because of family money... jesus christ.

Ever heard of Zip2 and Paypal?

Your resentment and jealousy based communist thinking is pretty ugly.
How does this compare to kivy ?
I fully agree with your second point. But, having worked in Ada during 6 years, the productivity is around the same as C++, perhaps slightly better than C++. The productivity is only reduced when writing very short programs.
I thought it was both. But I never bothered to ask what it abbreviates.
It might be that the LLC is liable for the taxes and not you personally. Do you really want to pay $1600 for something you aren’t really using or do you want to abandon it and walk away?
Nothing left apart from 2 million? Hopefully I can be broke as well for retirement. (Dislike the article, love the person)
The comment I was replying to mentioned it being noble for a woman to starve herself to give $25 to a stranger.

I disagree, and I pointed out the contradiction of praising sacrifice while disparaging self-interest, when the two are not possible without each other. If you disagree with that, I would be interested in hearing why.

Trades are not all selfish.

I never made the point that trades are inherently selfish, only that in some trades monetary gain is not the only form of currency.

Are all rational actions selfish?

Yes. You state in your second paragraph that "Every rational choice is made based on some personal values". I agree. If you act on your own personal values, this is selfish. And as all rational choice must be in service of personal values, then all rational action is selfish.

I'm very open to the idea that I'm wrong on all of this, but I can not see how, so I thank you for engaging with my comment.
Now you've got me wondering if you could design a reverse-stirling engine that runs off an intensely endothermic reaction of some sort.
Of course it was "inadequate system" if you consider it a full self-driving. It is inadequate in the simple fact that it was not complete. It was under development.

But how do you suppose we create FSD cars if we can't try them out before they are ready? There is just no other way to do it than vigilant drivers that watch what these cars do.

> To put it another way, the self-driving system did not alert the driver that it had detected something

Well of course not, who would expect that? If the car could positively identify the collision before it happened, it would have simply stopped, no need for a driver at all. The driver is there to prevent exactly this kinds of accidents, and this driver failed by getting our her phone and distracting herself with streaming videos instead of doing her one job. Plain and simple.
"Herzberg was crossing Mill Avenue (North) from west to east, approximately 360 feet (110 m) south of the intersection with Curry Road, outside the designated pedestrian crosswalk"
> All banking regulations are due solely
> to the fact that banks take deposits?

Yes! Ability to take deposits is pretty much the definition of a bank[0]. So, by definition, all banking regulations are due to banks' ability to take deposits.

There are other financial regulations that apply to wider ranges of financial businesses (e.g. those related to detecting and preventing money laundering), but these are not specific to banks. Given that they apply to businesses that aren't banks, they can't be considered 'banking regulations'.

[0] I'm not from the US, so this UK reference was easier to find than a US equivalent: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/data-collection/i...
If you want a list of banks in the UK, you will look at the Monetary Financial Institutions (MFI) list, which lists
'all banks and building societies who have permission to accept deposits in the UK.'
The iPad / Macbook merger seems awfully close. Same CPU, same connectivity. Macbook can run iOS apps.

If I can get an iPad Pro, which I can use as a desktop too. That'd be awesome.

I remember a year or so ago, Apple promoting the iPad or the Macbook as "The last notebook you'll ever buy"
A similar anecdote from my family.

My uncle (a sheep farmer) and I discovered that:

1. I was afraid to touch anything in a car engine, but happy to muddle through unfamiliar computer issues

2. He was afraid to click unknown buttons on a computer screen, but comfortable pulling apart and rebuilding an unfamiliar car engine.

In both cases, we were confident because we knew whatever mistake we made we'd be able to reverse it. And in both cases, we were afraid of making a mistake that we couldn't reverse.
Most entertaining post-morterm I've ever read, Australian through and through.
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The best resource I found when I was forming a US LLC was https://www.llcuniversity.com
Same senators who thought Google made iPhones? Not defending Google but I am saying that most of those senators are not the holders of truth when it comes to technology.
Values Are the Rules You Break
(d) I believe 1 person will spend $1bn much better than 100m will spent $10.
Research Nasim Aghdam. Youtube simply deems content unmonetizable. You'll get good rates on 5 views and 0 rates on a million views. :)

Further, your 1M view video on mesothelioma is going to be paid much more than your 100M view video on needle drugs
How do you expect the humanity to create a self-driving car then? Somehow magically create it from 0% to 100% in a lab, and then let out on the street? This is never going to work, it needs testing on public roads. What is your plan then? How do you propose FSD cars should be developed?
As a European who also worked a year in the US, it's starling how utterly _byzantine_ everything related to operating a business in the US is. Why in the everloving world would I need a lawyer that should be an extremly simple process? Forming an equivalent to a LLC in the majority of EU is a 5-10 step web form signed online, followed by some waiting and a sub 100€ one-time-fee.

Furthermore, financial literacy also seem very, very low, almost as if the powers to be maliciously wanted to misinform people. "You get taxed on profits, not on revenue" seems like the fundamental axiom of business, yet here it is, present as "this one weird tip the IRS hates". See also "I don't want a raise, it'll put me in a higher tax bracket".
So, no medicine?
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It is rather unlikely, statistically, that this was a single lapse. Or that a single lapse would cause an accident. It's not like the driver's finger was hovering over a nuclear launch button.

Yes, I think I would be able to do this job safely. Not everyone has problems with focus to such an extent that you can't help but be on the phone when you need to be paying attention.
> Like so many other global first-world cities, Tokyo is experiencing explosive population growth, increasing by 1.6 million people since 2000. And unlike practically every U.S. city, it has almost no empty land. So it has responded through vertical growth, tearing down old structures and replacing them with high rises at a pace light-years ahead of anywhere in modern America. As FT’s Tokyo bureau chief Robin Harding wrote in the article, the city had 142,417 housing starts in 2014, which was “more than the 83,657 housing permits issued in the state of California (population 38.7m), or the 137,010 houses started in the entire country of England (population 54.3m).” Compare this, also, with the roughly 20,000 new residential units approved annually in New York City, the 23,500 units started in Los Angeles County, and the measly 5,000 homes constructed in 2015 throughout the entire Bay Area.

> This has stabilized Tokyo’s housing prices, wrote Harding, and has kept them far lower than in many U.S. cities.
I am more motivated to have a language that compiles fast to small binaries, is easy to understand and use, and is cross platform, but thanks for you attempt for psychoanalysis of a stranger on the internet anyway.

If I were you though, I would stick to coding, your prose is hard to read - at least try to use proper punctuation and spacing.
Nope. He cited several such cases.

Usually it goes like this: Devs putting out some innocent statement, some aggressive culture warriors taking it out of context and interpreting it evil, shouting wolf, and the Debian managers reacting with an immediate ban. On the dev, not the aggressive culture warrior. This is usually matched with falsified arguments to support this ban. Devs also began reacting like in the stalinist culture wars from the 30ies.

A typical example is https://debian.community/laura-arjona-reina-carnival-mafia-m...

This guy posted old citations that "Debian is not fun anymore", followed by, "Well, Times are changing". https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/11/on-lars-wirzenius-fun...
Of course he was banned from Debian.
You are right, but it could be both.
Good introspection. You're almost there.
This brings to mind the classic Trolley Problem:

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

The scenario is notably different, but it does dig into the issues around acts vs omissions and how we perceive them.
I would prefer Modula-2 where I do like the module system.
If they were to actually ban disinformation, they would have to ban mainstream news sources.

They'd also have to ban the political campaigns.
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The USAF has built and flown a full-scale prototype of its future fighter jet
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In September 2020, somehow this all feels so dated and irrelevant, including talking about it here on Hacker News. The whole culture is past its zenith, ready to be processed and filed away.
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> high-risk-high-reward-huge-losses
> types of risks with other people's money

Many HN readers run or work for businesses that take these kinds of risks (with money from VC funds). But those businesses (along with fintech companies) are different from banks: banks can take retail deposits.

If a bank fails then, in the absence of a government-run deposit guarantee scheme, regular people can lose their entire life savings.

If a business other than a bank fails, it's unlikely anyone other than the owner(s) will lose a large percentage of their wealth.
/Before modern medicine, nobody wondered when dead is dead./

Not true! Widespread fear of being buried alive (due to stories of seemingly dead people waking up from time to time) led to the invention of safety coffins, for example...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin
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> Hardly any projects use strict semver in the real world. Most other package managers don't enforce it.

I think strict semver is reasonably possible for things that are libraries rather than products in their own right.

But you're right, people want major versions to indicate something significant and new (and occasionally major versions have a contractual significance as well - requiring customers to pay an upgrade fee), rather than small breaking changes. It's even sometimes possible to create a new library that has huge changes in the intended way you use it, its conceptual model and masses of new functionality, but it maintains backwards compatibility - it's perfectly understandable that the package owner wants to indicate this with a major version bump.

The other issue I've come across is that what constitutes a breaking change is much more subjective than many people realise. Any change is a breaking change if someone is reading in your library and tweaking bytes in specific locations. Of course, for most libraries they shouldn't be doing that, but that means that if someone is using your library wrong, then you don't worry about breaking them. But the question of if someone is using your library wrong is pretty subjective. At an extreme, that could be considered to be relying on any behaviour not explicitly documented as intended. Ultimately, it comes down to the judgement of the package maintainer, and that doesn't always match up with the judgement of the user.

Having version numbers that mean something to machines is very useful when it works though. Perhaps we should just separate those from human-targetted versions rather than go full sentimental versioning: http://sentimentalversioning.org/ Maybe something like <human version>.<machine readable api version>.<unique incrementing build number> could work.
Some people see risk and sacrifice of the self as the foundation of heroism.

A fire code inspector might save more lives than a fire fighter, but nobody sells calendars of sexy fire code inspectors, or hands out medals for bravely insisting that tower block's staircase have a sprinkler system fitted.

Of course, an Effective Altruist / utilitarian would say who cares about feelings and medals? After all, altruism by definition isn't seeking medals.
NVidia is also using it, in fact they decided against Rust when evaluating which language to adopt for their "Safe Autonomous Driving" project.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/02/05/adacore-secure-auto...
> I never had to shift a bit in a C array in my life!

I have done (and continue to do) quite a bit of work involving bit shifting, along with various other bitwise operations. Is it really that unusual? Should I feel guilty?

Humor aside, I am genuinely curious to what extent other people are familiar or experienced with low-level bitwise operations.
Considering the number of stories (or at least legends that people were afraid of) of people assumed dead and buried while still alive, no, before modern medicine people were very unsure when dead was dead in marginal cases.
This just came across as "I am 14 and this is deep" or perhaps a LiveJournal post. I know how to swear too!
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Seems to be exactly that, the underlying language used for simulating real-world processes in what's called "Discrete Event Modelling". ExtendSim has a number of nice tutorial videos, and the subject matter seems pretty interesting imo.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmI5cQMxY3uZ97Qz8gZXKow
Turns out a disease was the cure.
In the 80s, largely because compilers were expensive.

I think it had a (smallish) second chance in 2001, when GNAT was put in the main GCC tree. By then plenty of people were disillusioned with C and C++, and I think it could have got momentum in a way similar to how Rust has (by appealing to programmers' pride in producing less-buggy programs).

But the Gnu Ada maintainer was also the person running Ada Core technologies (who sold the proprietary version of Gnat), and wasn't at all interested in making sure the free version worked out of the box on Linux distributions, or promoting Ada as a language for writing free software.
You're being downvoted because this site is overrun with cis-male-het-white privileged shitlords.
If anything, I'm more concerned that transwomen (I hate that we even still use that term instead of calling them what they are: women) can be singled out and made targets of hate and ridicule, and blamed for the engineering failings of $80 billion dollar companies.
That is the real tragedy here. That if you're trans, you're easily scapegoated, like poor Rafaela Vasquez.
I don’t know, some people here seem pretty confident in the knowledge of senators etc. when it comes to calls for investigations into Apple.
Because Borland lost their way and Turbo Pascal/Delphi was the leading Pascal implementation, so eventually most Pascal lovers moved into Java/.NET.
I notice he doesn't say, "Fuck you for solving your customers' problems and making them insanely happy."

He's talking about the cargo cult parts.
I guess Jewish "tzedakah" and Arabian "zakat" have anyway both the same linguistic root, both being Semitic languages and everything related happening in the same small part of the world (if the word itself has some other origins).
Agreed - when I was working on gpu drivers bit shifting was a daily practice.