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> nothing rhymes with Pickachu, or Charmander, or Bulbasaur

Were you only rhyming pokemon names with other pokemon names, or could you use other words?

If you can use other words, the trick to rhyming made-up words is to find any word that ends with the same sound, and look that word up in a rhyming dictionary.

Pickachu -> You -> zoo, IQ, caribou, misconstrue etc

Charmander -> Salamander -> gander, candour, meander, highlander etc

Bulbasaur -> Dinosaur -> door, floor, centaur, guarantor, heretofore etc
Watershed moment in how we "price" monopolistic power. It's not "market share" or "barriers to entry" or even engaging in "anti-competitive behavior" anymore. But more about how corporations can control the free flow of information. Much harder to make that case for the government I should imagine.

What's surprising to me is how un-monopolistic Google's share of the Cloud + AI market is under its control, considering how many of the techniques were invented there. I'd put it at under 25%.

The real behemoth is NVidia + ARM. GPU shortages are endemic. And the cost of a new entrant to the market just to construct a fab is probably $20B+. Ask Intel XE how much they are spending just to keep up ;)
I quite like the trait system in Rust, but I'm not sure if I would argue that it's simpler than a class-based language. Just looking at `foo.bar()` there are similar types of complexities. In a class-based language you need to be aware of the class hierarchy, and in Rust you need to be aware of imported traits and auto dereferencing.
Yes thanks god for the DOJ, this is long over due and will open an new era of innovation and startup ecosystems. Just like when BELL was split apart.

Facebook should be next.
Tech startups trim headcount before raising new funds
I agree with you, with different reasoning. The number of people without adequate employment (as in, they'd take a full time living wage job over their current situation) is a useful means of understanding the economic situation.

Counting a student who has reasonable expectations of living wage employment, post graduation, distorts that measure.
Just like building a real computer, you don't have to hold all of the concepts in your mind at once, just start with basic building blocks and work your way up the ladder of abstraction to parentheses or space invaders or whatever floats your boat. :)
Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
Some insight as to why it's had to make money from the hack: https://fortenf.org/e/security/2020/07/15/twitter-hack.html
Last time I used NPM, it tended to download megabytes of dependencies for each project. If you used a package in, say, 10 different projects, you had 10 copies of it. Did they solve that issue?
For a simpler source of better food for thought just check the official participation rate.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...

The article crafts a nice shocking headline, but the substance is disappointing. The BLS measures unemployment many different ways (U1-U6)[1] plus the civilian labor force participation rate, so the official data also shows these higher unemployment rates as U6, and has tracked them over time. Of course politicians and the media like to pick apart that data and focus on whichever part of it best supports the narrative they intend to tell. But the data is all there for all of us to see and interpret for ourselves.

1: https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm
FP concepts that were confusing to me when coming from imperative languages
I was daydreaming about this with my son. This is awesome!
Some companies also have incredibly rigid scripts which manage to combine the worst from the worlds of chatbots and humans.
It may also be a simple divergence in the data used to render the scenes. The article talks about some material colors that aren't present in the data that make pixel perfect rendering impossible. It wouldn't surprise me if they added or removed a tree or two between whenever the data was exported and when the example renders were made.
Especially if it ends up being ineffective due to rushing. It is not like Google hires no lawyers.
Live coronavirus found on frozen food packaging in China
> $2000/month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car in low cost of living regions. In NYC it means you are probably stacked into a decaying apartment with many other people with no car.

It's funny how many Americans conflate "living" with the possession of a car...
Change the URL to https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-file-long... (no paywall)
(By the way, Hacker News doesn't support markdown; indent your code by two spaces, rather than using fences. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc )

Just a few small things:

> This is a huge one for me, and I really don't understand why Rust didn't jump on this earlier.

Doing this well is not easy. Exposing a full language at compile time isn't a difficult feature, but doing compile-time execution in a sound, safe way is not simple. For example, cross compilation becomes more of a thing. It is easy to accidentally break the type system. I don't actually know how Zig implements comptime, but I expect given Andrew's chops, it's probably in a good way.

(And, one can argue that there are pros and cons here too, the article gets into them a bit. Doing everything this way has significant drawbacks, as well as significant pros.)

> I'm not sure what to say about this, except that it's surprising that there seem to be a lack of voices about this in the Rust community. How can anyone comfortably write `unsafe` code without knowing what the rules are? Especially when the compiler is so "good" at depending on the "rules"? I don't understand. I have pretty limited experience with unsafe, but I have written some, and was often confused about which bugs were my logic bugs and which were the compiler assuming I didn't break some rule I didn't know about. Combine this with a poor debugging story overall, and you have a pretty miserable experience programming.

There's just not a lot to say. The exact details are being worked on. This takes time. The team isn't going to make rules that invalidate large swaths of existing code, and has a history of making compatibility warnings with a long time before things break.

There is a fairly clear list of "this is absolutely not acceptable," and a bunch of "it depends...".

It's also just that the vast majority of people never need to reach for unsafe in the first place, so it isn't a huge pressure on a lot of people.
>Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention isolated live new coronavirus in cold chain food packaging

http://www.chinacdc.cn/yw_9324/202010/t20201017_222144.html
You're conflating producing content with getting paid. I remember a time when you could find blogs that were actually interesting, and people banded together to form communities, and no one was getting paid for it. The problem here is that, thanks to Twitter, YouTube, et. al., everyone has a megaphone now, and it's just almost impossible to find the good stuff in all the dreck now. And anyone who rises to a level of notice on one of these "platforms" starts putting their good stuff behind paywalls these days.
Wasn't the whole point to be different than the classical banking system? If it's just going to copy it, what's the point?
Being a "fan site" is not a general defense to trademark infringement. What is relevant is whether the mark was infringed on as it pertains to the goods and services that the mark was registered for.
So ten years of standstill, even a government shutdown (which is a word only heard in third world countries), because of one political party being utterly unwilling to participate in normal democratic process, that is a feature to you?

> an abuse of its intended purpose in our system of checks and balances

The intention was to stop a dictator from rising, not that the country would be essentially governed by executive degree for a decade.
While that's true for posts like this in general, in this specific case those communities are the same. Conway's Game of Life is a computer science curio.
Domain ownership can be transferred without giving up your domain registry's account though, unless it's nearly expired or just renewed.
400K is an estimate. You say my numbers are wrong, when you are using made up numbers? Number of deaths are tailing off everywhere. I see no reason to expect the number of deaths to go that high in the US.

This article estimates between 39 - 56k for flu, more than your number.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

Also given what you see in this video, coronavirus numbers are likely inflated due to the way they are calculated. Spain, Belgium and US essentially count every death that tested positive as a covid death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfOcGm5xiA

Sweden coped fine without the panic and fear mongering around coronavirus. Looking at the number of deaths occurring just now the pandemic is essentially over for them.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
This is a good example of how the craving for superlatives does not only generate a lot of empty hyperbole, but also how it can derail an entire thread.
New method converts carbon dioxide to methane at low temperatures
Is this EOL for just the "preview" or for the whole thing?
The thing is, it's obvious that it is a political piece intended to stir up confusion and anger towards the current administration.

When you point out the very obvious flaws, it gets you downvoted as well because orange man bad. HN has become a sad place just like everywhere else.
> The Azure Notebooks preview is ending on October 9th, 2020

Apparently they already shut down 2 weeks ago.

Any word on what's replacing it? Azure Machine Learning notebooks?
I have the feeling that what will push Zig ahead is the uncanny sense of technical aesthetics shown by the creator. Unsexy details like language simplicity, what-you-read-is-what-runs, orders of magnitude faster compile times, effortless cross compilation and C interoperability.

I have never seen anyone focusing so ruthlessly, so early, on nitty-gritty details of how to go about engineering a compiler and language that is and will let you be as close to optimal as possible in terms of compile-time and run-time performance. "Perfect software" as Andrew talks about.

In short, engineering choices taken early will let Zig be something that Rust maybe could approach too (in theory), but in practice never will. Of course Rust is something that Zig will never be, too.
> Is it all counted as "unemployed"?

Well are they employed by anyone? No. So they're unemployed. It's perfectly valid to be unemployed while studying... but you're still unemployed.
Hahaha. My friends and I call it Silicon Valley Syndrome. Glad to see we were not alone
Doesn't account for part-time, doesn't account for households, doesn't account for students. Add in "Black Americans" and voila, you have a run-of-the-mill lazily-written racebaiting clickbait pseudointellectual blog post.
I don't find your second point compelling in the slightest.

From reading your other responses, my conclusion is that in any hypothetical argument, you wouldn't consider either side to have better reasoning than the other and if you did, you would chalk it up to your own emotional biases.

Your attitude seems incompatible with the concept that one argument can be better than another.

Is my assessment inaccurate or is there some nuance here that I've missed?
There is no true single facet of looking at this data.

We already know the pandemic and the response have been disastrous for unemployment. If you aren’t in the top 1%, good luck.
This explains a lot. Anger and desperation is the only logical outcome when almost half the nation is living in (or at the edge) of poverty.
Does this quantification argument hold for citizens that are considered public figures? While they might not have more free speech than other citizens, they certainly have a more visible platform to communicate their opinions
Although if you are after focus and depth, arguably you would be reading some sort of primary source rather than an encyclopedia. I've definitely been at a library, had a quick question on something tangentially related to what I'm reading, and pulled up Wikipedia on my phone to quickly look something up. I wouldn't want to read a whole book on a phone, since I agree with you that I can more easily absorb information from an actual book. That being said, looking up something on my phone is far less distracting than having to get up, put the book down, and go over to look something up in an encyclopedia or dictionary.
I remember working at a company in the early 2000s that did a bit of GIS work and getting a copy of Keyhole. It was absolutely mindblowing at the time. I remember spending an hour or so after work nearly every day for a few weeks just browsing around the globe and looking at places all over the world.

There was absolutely nothing like it anywhere, this was even before Google Maps was a thing and most people printed out directions, on paper, from mapquest.com. The Motorola Razr flip phone still hadn't been released. This was absolutely impossible technology from the future. Lots of the senior technical people I worked with used to spend their lunches trying to figure out the architecture Keyhole used to stream the map data. And then they'd spend their coffee breaks trying to figure out how they got all that to run performantly on the primitive graphics hardware we had in the "Keyhole" desktop -- which somebody took to one of our conference rooms and hooked up to a projector and gave people wall-sized flying tours of the Earth.

What's amazing to me is that even after Google acquired it, the capabilities haven't become significantly better than that original tool. Sure it's been cleaned up, and better data tiles, more POI, etc. They added 3d buildings and so on. But it's still entirely recognizable as that original software -- after two decades.

I remember wanting to have it at home, but it was prohibitively expensive, and then NASA released WorldWind [1] which was achingly close but never quite got the high resolution map data that Keyhole did at the time.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_WorldWind
Yes, it is quite sad. I didn't know a voice could be so triggering to people until I went on this thread. It's really not something I place much importance on, so I was surprised to see this.

Lex, if you're reading this by any chance, please keep up the great work. There are a lot more people who love what you're doing than those who don't! :)
I think of all the school kids in the Internet era that have been told, "You cannot use Wikipedia" as a research source. Did teachers ever say that about Encarta?
"Twitter guy" could mean "person whose job is to post on twitter.com" rather than "person employed by Twitter, Inc."
In many regions of the US, it's a simple necessity to have a car, just as it might be in more rural parts of Europe. I know people who work as farmers in the north of the Netherlands, and a car is as essential a commodity for them as it might be for a rural Midwesterner.
"You don't see in 4K"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNBiAV4UnM
I didn't agree to the terms and conditions. Why would I? All the risk is on me. Good luck.
Right. I agree that it naturally follows that the only two reasons to use mixers is if:

1. You have committed a crime (dirty money)
2. You are about to commit a crime (buy illegal stuff)

Sometimes both.

In other words, like I said "Only a fool would use a mixer for legitimate purposes".
I appreciate the response, and the emphasis on adding emotional context in a shorthand. However:

- There are over 3,000 emojis defined in unicode, which is a very large vocabulary in which to become expert.

- There is no well-defined meaning for any of the emojis, even the "simple" common ones. One must try to infer from shared context what the sender means. This is fraught with error opportunities.

- They mean different things to different subgroups, and act as an "in-group" credential in many cases.

- They are visually very indistinct, and can be difficult to distinguish one from another for people who have less than perfect vision, or color-blindness.

- For people with autism or other non-neurotypical processing they can be completely unintelligible, rendering the communication even less successful than "traditional" language.

In short, emojis are undefined, colloquial, designed for only a small portion of the population, and have constantly shifting interpretations of a vast dictionary of symbols.

I don't know why that's a good idea for improving the clarity of communication.
> I don't understand what is supposed to be nihilistic about treating evidence as evidence.

What is nihilistic is your ignoring all the previous evidence, the evidence that, as I told you, gets encoded into known physical laws. That's the problem with radical changes: they require repudiation of all that evidence, in favor of the comparatively razor thin evidence that has caught your fancy.
It also included great multimedia (images, audio, video, animations). I remember myself spending hours watching all kinds of physics animations.
I think it’s because of the way the country was built. Getting from A to B without a car is drastically worse, and it adds up to a proportionally bad quality of living unless you happen to live in a walkable older city (NYC, Boston for example). In some places like Florida your nearest store could be 4 miles away. The bus here is so underutilized and so inconvenient that I don’t think I’ve ever considered. A 30m drive is a 2h bus ride.
In theory yes, but it often takes a believer to push through the naysayers. Facebook seemed a terrible idea when it first came out. Ditto for Airbnb.
How to measure success of a conversational AI chatbot
The US government plans to file antitrust charges against Google today
Old 4chan, YouTube, and Tumblr were not full of neo-Nazi propaganda unless you count ironic jokes that were obviously jokes, so no. Then the great Basement Blitzkreig of the 20-teens happened.
This is not a news report. It is a press briefing by anonymous sources:

"The Department of Justice is expected Tuesday to charge Google with violating federal antitrust law, according to two people familiar with the matter"

What is the basis of the charge? TFA doesn't say.
By your definition, Feudal England was "collective ownership". A handful of executives having ownership of a company != collective ownership, that's closer to an Oligarchy than anything.
US government to file antitrust lawsuit against Google today
In a lot of rural areas, like where I am, there is no such thing as public transportation. If you don't have a car you can maybe make due during the spring and fall months where the temperatures are reasonable. But it's going to be hell during winter (gets cold enough and there's enough snow a bike won't work for you) and during summer it gets too hot.

I'm a 5 minute drive to the nearest grocery store. For a walk, that's about 3-ish miles. On a bike, not so bad, but also keep in mind there's no bike lane or anything so you're sharing the road with cars. There's some added risk to that.

A car isn't a requirement, but it makes a massive difference in your ability to live.
In many areas of the country it is very, very challenging to get anywhere without one. I don't think access to grocery store / work is necessarily trivial to life.
>$2000/month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car in low cost of living regions.

If that 2k/mo comes with reasonable health insurance and some retirement plan.
No conversation about United States healthcare should continue without acknowledgement of Regulatory Capture through legal bribery.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cy...

The healthcare industry protects it's employees and owners at the expense of the customer.

There's nothing capitalistic here, there's nothing scientific about having monopoly control over healthcare services (Physicians, pharmacists).

As a note, I am shooting myself in the foot discussing this, my wife makes 200k/yr as a doctor of Physical Therapy running her own clinic. And her cartel isn't even on that list.
For Germany there are "training measures". You'll be put in some course for three months and by doing that you are no longer "unemployed". That's great for the statistics but that's about it. I've heard those training are not really great.
Well deserved and might I say, "it's about time".

Break 'em up!
Fiddling around can also be okay, if it is relaxing.
Chip is probably one of the few spaces, where oligopoly or duopoly makes sense ( though it is still scary ). The entry barriers are not artificial. It is genuinely hard to start from the ground up just based on the level of progress made thus far.

With Google that argument is harder. A person could whip up G level search engine, mail, and maybe even youtube equivalent, but moving all those people ( but to make them consider your alternative would be impossibly painful to do ).

I will admit that NVidia and ARM scares me, but I am not sure what can be done here.
I agree that there is no "true" measure, just different measures.

That said, the standard unemployment measure the author is objecting to is just as (more really) disingenuous in practice. It also stacks confusion. "Unemployment" used as a primary barometer for the labour economy.

People (including journalists, politicians... high stakes stuff) assume that unemployment captures most unemployment. They don't consider that most unemployed 58 year olds are not counted because they "retired," stopped seeking work or receive a disability benefit. When/if these become substantial, the measure means very little.

Every time a journalist note record high/low unemployment of X%, it's probably just as deceptive or (more likely) misleading. The measure itself means something different in 2020 than it did in 1980, or in a different country/region.

At least the "true" appendage makes clear that there are differing and divergent ways to measure unemployment, and that these cn result in huge differences.
Yet, Go’s net/http client/servers are fully production ready. This can be done right. Being able to just use them without having to follow the newest trends in a language’s ecosystem is a huge cognitive burden off my mind.
Sudan has transferred compensation for U.S. bombing victims: cenbank
I don’t know that the government excessively manipulates the CPI, given it shows constant steady inflation since the 1950s[1].

My sense is merely that the metric is focused on “cost to survive” measures and does not reflect the changes in “cost to thrive.” Food, clothing, transportation, and technology are actually getting cheaper over time. But it’s hard to care when housing, education, and healthcare costs are skyrocketing.

Also, as a footnote, I was interested to read the article you linked, but I seriously distrust any information presented as a video under the headline “shocking answer revealed!”

1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
Introduction to Infrastructure as Code Using Terraform
If you want to read from an insider's perspective, read this book from a Keyhole PM (I just finished).

Very interesting to see how Keyhole struggled with cash flow needs and long sales cycles in the post-dot.com bubble just as the average startup struggles now.

Also, In-Q-Tel was just an investor at the company, and many were wary about why Google (who didn't have any mapping product) would go that route.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35820393-never-lost-agai...