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Whaaaaat? 15 years ago takes you all the way back to the PPC to Intel transition, Apple has released tons and tons of price competitive products in that timeframe. Not cheapest, but competitive.

The first Intel Macbook was easily the best and least frustrating Windows Vista computer you could buy at the time. Plus they came with OSX and a slew of great software out of the box that at the time you'd have to pay hundreds of dollars extra for on a PC.

The Macbook Air (even the crappy first revision) was without competition for its time and stayed that way into the early 2010s while everyone else was pushing Netbooks.

The first Retina MBP in 2012 had almost no competition at release with a comparable screen at the same price point.

The first 5K iMac was literally a free computer bundled with the 5k display panel.

The current Mac Pro and the pre-trashcan Mac Pro are/were price-to-performance comparable to other workstation class hardware packages from Dell and HP (they offer less configurations and update less frequently however).

The iPhone SE models are competitive.

The base model iPad typically stands without competition, you either get frustrating garbage on the low end or lower value Galaxy Tabs or ChromeOS or low end Surface tablets (or worse, an ARM based Surface tablet) on the higher end.

The Apple Pencil's price to performance ratio drove down the cost of that entire product segment by popularizing it. Previous $100 stylus options were much worse.

AirPods at their time of release were some of the cheapest completely wireless headphones available (most had behind-the-head wires still).

The new M1 model computers are also now very competitive for the performance they're showing.

Apple basically never competes in a race to the bottom and they rarely offer anything in the lowest tier of product pricing categories and they absolutely don't cater to everyone (especially PC gamers) but for the mid to high end they wouldn't exist if they weren't competitive.
They’re not even at level 3 yet. Level 3 allows you to take your eyes off the road, and car will notify you if there’s something it cannot deal with, in advance. Tesla FSD will kill you if you do that.

As I said, it’s very impressive for level 2. But just because it can do more stuff that any other publicly available l2 system, it doesn’t make it self driving system. And Tesla knows that. They’ve quietly walked back most of their claims. They used to advertise it as level 5, that you can go to sleep. Now they advertise FSD as system that requires full human attention, and only missing thing is auto steer on city streets.
Kafka is essentially commit logs, which are at the core of any traditional database engines. Streaming is just turning the gut of DB inside out (mostly for scalability reasons), while DB is wrapped up commit logs that provides higher level functionalities (ACID, Transactions, etc.). It's two sides of the same coin, yin and yang of the same thing... But on the practical side of things, yes, if what you needed more are indeed what's described in this article, your life would be easier with a traditional DB.
The cost of the rental truck may be the least important piece of this equation. Depending on the pickup shortfall, I could easily see the need for multiple trucks needing to go to each carrier's facility.

You're also going to multiple employees per truck, with at least one being more senior since there could be tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise.

They'll need to get to the carrier facility and make sure the boxes are scanned, because they are now a variable in the transport, and it would look bad if a box went missing and supposedly never made it to the carrier. At the warehouse we have cameras that make it unnecessary to watch the boxes being scanned. Not to mention customers check tracking like hawks and would call and take up support resources wondering about their box that "shipped" but the tracking page says "Fedex is waiting on your box to arrive".

On top of this, carrier pickups are typically scheduled as late as possible. We lobbied heavily for our UPS / Fedex pickups to be 6pm (or later during peak). So you're going to need to send employees to the carrier at 6:30pm or later, dropping the truck off at the warehouse at 7:30 (at the earliest) after loading/unloading/scanning (It was a 15 min drive to the carrier center).

So they're getting home at 8pm, and need to be back at the warehouse at 7am to pick all the orders for the next day.
Well, my RV has room for about 6, and with 80% panels I could have air conditioning without being plugged in and not have to cover a 1/4 acre of desert with roll-out panels and store them too.
TikTok is literally a new global app for Douyin. It's not about trade deficits, it is about waning exceptionalism of silicon valley. They finally learned to debundle US culture with US tech. Something TikTok has been very agile on, making regional adaptations and complying to regional laws. Hubris is what kep facebook and google from returning to Chinese market 10 years ago.
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Red Hat already staged their exit.
I'm only interpreting here (not judging). But I think s/he means you're spending a lot of time justifying the position that expediency is what's important, which is ironic.
I still feel like this was a troublesome and unnecessary change dictated by people who have no business forcing this on everyone using github.

However, I jokingly suggest that "master" be changed to "mistress" for exclusivity and empowerment.
If Ant is 'essentially' state owned, whereas its action reflects the will of the state, then its action need not to be controlled through government regulation or Chinese SEC.

Ownership is much more powerful in an enterprise than outside government regulations in any cases.
Oracle Linux is RHEL... just with the Red Hat branding replaced by Oracle branding. I guess there are some other differences as well but that's the gist of it.

It's mostly for Oracle products and has the oracle yum repositories preconfigured iirc. So their database products can be installed out of the box.

But RHEL is considered the industry standard when it comes to corporate Linux distributions.
https://www.voegol.com.br/en/gol/our-fleet

Did they? I still see a lot of references to the MAX 8 on their fleet page, notably separate from their 737-800 fleet.
I hope this doesn't mean they are divesting.
That already exists and is called CloudLinux. It is very cheap but not free.

Other RHEL-clones: Oracle Linux (best one), Springdale Linux.

Other alternatives: openSUSE Leap and Debian. I am not even listing Ubuntu because I hate it since snaps.
Tbh, It's a weird blog post coming from the materialize folks, considering they know better.

The "event sourced" arch they sketched is missing pieces.
Normaly you'd have single writer instances that are locked to the corresponding kafka partition, which ensure strong transactional guarantees, IF you need them.

Throwing shade for maketings sake is something that they should be above.

I mean c'mon, I'd argue that Postgres enhanced with Materialize isn't a database anymore either, but in a good sense!

It's building material. A hybrid between MQ, DB, backend logic & frontend logic.

The reduction in application logic and the increase in reliability you can get from reactive systems is insane.

SQL is declarative, reactive Materialize streams are declarative on a whole new level.

Once that tech makes it into other parts of computing like the frontend, development will be so much better, less code, less bug, a lot more fun.

Imagine that your react component could simply declare all the data it needs from a db, and the system will figure out all the caching and rerendering.

So yeah, they have awesome tech with many advantages, so I don't get why they bad-mouth other architectures.
Ask HN: How to hire a social media manager for a game
Basically I know I'll need to maintain things like a discord and a subreddit to promote my game. But considering I still have a day job , I won't have time for this. My dream person would manage all social media for the game, but do it part time, like 10 hours a week or so.

At a very least I'd like to pay someone to set all this stuff up
The day the US military shows a profit I will start to care about the USPS, actually no, I still won't care. It's not a business, it's a service. "partisan hacks", please take your "both sides" and leave, it's not even remotely close to the truth.

> substantial federal oversight that keeps it from doing particularly slimy things to make a buck.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm sure you couldn't be talking about attempts to let USPS provide basic banking services.
To be an effective leader you have to be willing to take risks. Most of those risks are interpersonal in nature. You run the risk of offending people when you tell them they can do better than they currently are. You’re essentially calling them out for not working hard enough, or having wrong assumptions, or any of the other normal human failings that everyone is subject to. If a leader doesn’t call those things or then the whole team slips and backslides until all progress stops. Doing the right thing as a leader often earns you the title of asshole and you have to be ok with that. It isn’t carte blanche to be petty and cruel for no good reason though, your actions should reflect the needs of the project not your own whims.
My understanding is that ksqlDB is a read-only interface on top of streams and only helps people write better consumers. The problems mentioned in the blog post relate to producers.
"Pay $5 per 1,000 page loads" closed source.
Well, that sucks. I've been a happy Mapbox GL JS user for years, hosting my own tiles and not using their service at all. I even had a few (very small) pull requests accepted into the project. Hopefully the OSS community can maintain a fork of the 1.x codebase.

-edit-

The FAQ says developers can still use self hosted tiles, but also says that usage is now billed per map load, and "a map load occurs whenever a Map object is initialized on a webpage. Each map load includes unlimited vector tiles, raster tiles, and terrain tiles for the length of the map session.".

To me that sound like while I can still use my own map tiles, it would still costs the same as if I used Mapbox hosted tiles.
Whenever anyone says "no, the problem is completely with the other guy", usually they are the ones with the problem. Did you notice how many insults you hurled at the author? And what is his offense exactly? Writing something you happen to disagree with?

Ask yourself this: could it be that some people on your team, on some days when they are frustrated, sleep deprived, and stuck on a problem feel like this guy? Do you think they would be comfortable discussing this with you given how you react?
Training Keras Models with the Genetic Algorithm
Actually, for sufficiently large corporations, I would say the difference between being state-owned and private-but-state-influencing is not as clear as one might assume.

(Alternatively, you could say that all sufficiently large corporations are "partially-state-owning".)
It has to do with how it functions in practice, IMO. PostgreSQL itself is arguably a service, but the database probably is not - you're probably crawling all over its implementation details and data model.

You could take a stand and say, "All access is through stored procedures. They are the API." And, if that API operates as the same semantic level as a well-crafted REST API, then you could make an argument that that particular database is a microservice that just happens to have been implemented on top of PostgreSQL. But I don't think I've ever seen such a thing happen in the wild. It's much more popular to use an ORM to get things nice and tightly coupled.
Well, GoDaddy, or heh, AWS are The Man.

My best hope is that the major hosting vendors, or maybe some industry consortium might offer resources for this.
A little caution to those attempting to find the most efficient way to lie down catatonically for hours on end, you're slowly weakening your body.

The effects of this happen slowly over the course of years but you could potentially develop tight hips and a bad back, which can accelerate further mobility problems.

Common advice is to get up and move once an hour. Your productivity might dip but mental/physical health will benefit. Seating that forces you to change positions frequently (floor cushions) might be a save too.
I'm still not clear on what fuchsia is trying to be - or more specifically, why is Google developing it. What is the end goal here, from a business perspective?
Presumably one big benefit is not having to deal with Oracle who are infamously difficult to deal with.
I don’t think the issue is quarantining/isolation of goods, but the people transporting it.

Canadian cross-border truckers arriving back from ??? USA are largely exempt from quarantine requirements upon return.
If I provide significantly large value to enough clients (i.e. I make a lot of money) then the state will take 53 percent of my marginal profits.

As far as pushing back against crony capitalism and corporatism goes, we are in total agreement.
In this case it appears to be a Null pointer de-reference. That type of bug is almost never exploitable since it almost always just leads to the program immediately terminating. An exploitable bug is one that has some way for the attacker to pivot and use it to do something else. For instance, a buffer overflow might allow an attacker to write some data in memory that could change the execution flow of a program.
I feel like it's easier if you add an apostrophe: Airpods' Max
How so? RHEL is open source... Red Hat also owns Centos.
There's a perverse irony in the way your responses here exude condescension while ostensibly trying educate and inform about the sort of things that people respond to. Although it looks like you came here to argue (which now explains the presumptuousness), I didn't, and I'm not wasting any (more) of my time indulging you.

> I get what you're saying. People often do couch cynicism and trolling in pleasantries.

No, apparently you don't, because that's not at all what I said or what I'm trying to say. Aside from failing at that, you almost succeeded at deflecting, but not quite. The attempt to change the subject and avoid responding directly is yet more reason to stop this here.
It feels like we are seeing the result of diminishing returns with technology advancement.

To make a product that Apple believes is significantly better than the competition they had to design a very intricate solution that includes:

* High end look and feel not similar to the bulk of their products with lots of textile webbing and memory foam ear cups. These get way more wear and tear than normal electronics being exposed to sweat, sunscreen, etc. On top of that these must be safe for long skin exposure and comfortable across many head shapes and sizes.
* High quality magnets with custom speaker design for low THD and large frequency range.
* 2 custom ASICs built for sound processing and low power bluetooth and 10 audio cores each.
* 10 microphone array for ANC and wind noise cancelation.
* Multiple accelerometers + gyros head tracking with spatial audio.

It you remove one of those components, I'd be surprised if Apple still shipped this. At least 40 people worked on designing and engineering this new headphone. There are not many companies in the world with the right kind of talent for this and Apple happens to be one of them.
Anathem is great, but I'd call it the "hard mode" of Neal Stephenson's work. If anyone is wanting some easier to follow books by him to get started with, I highly recommend Seveneves (personal favorite) or Snow Crash (modern classic).
For a retailer of any scale these might as well be the same thing.

Dropping off at a depot is not really how this bit of the industry works – the courier collects from the distribution centre in almost every case.

The issues with doing your own drop offs include: finding a new courier, booking, figuring out a collection time which then impacts your shipping estimate cut-off time, and paying for this whole service.

In terms of price, you're going from a high volume commodity service at typically a crazy low price for courier shipping (for what it is), to adding a new additional short-term, lower volume or unproven volume, from one of the smaller providers who aren't operating at Fedex/UPS scale. I could imagine this doubling shipping costs, which might be untenable for many ecommerce businesses.

In terms of the actual logistics, it's a challenge, plus typically this would be automated – your software will do this all for you. Now your software needs to book and pre-advise a new provider? And track through them? But also track through the original one?

For most businesses it's probably impractical to implement this, and for most that could they probably have contracts with the couriers that mean they won't be hit by this or they do their own deliveries. I think the space in the middle is a pretty small subset of companies.
Does it? Or are you just saying that? You can't experience hearing through his ears, so how can you possibly say that?

Hearing loss is a weird beast that takes many forms. If he truly cannot tell the difference between Beats and his setup in a blind hearing test then maybe I would agree. Do you know if he's done this?
I cannot believe that's the travel case they settled on.
maybe you've come across it, but Silverman's biography does a good job tracing how Cage came to a lot of his compositional convictions.

I don't think it would convince you to enjoy his work, but I found it to be a really good read, regardless!

https://www.amazon.com/Begin-Again-Biography-John-Cage/dp/08...
I've heard Fuchsia referred to as a "principal engineer retention project" at Google. I'd be curious to know if others have heard the same.
FreeBSD is starting to look really good.
This whole situation is insane and hypocritical.

Rather than having some law that can be used to force TikTok and other companies to respect user privacy and store data safety. The US has basic no laws (with teeth) and doesn't care at all when a company like Equifax or Facebook leaks tons of data which includes foreign governments. But when one company is under the thumb of the CCP, the US freaks out. Meanwhile, the activities of the NSA and FBI in using telecoms and US tech companies to spy are no different, in an abstract sense, than what China does.

Essentially, If I'm a user not in the US or China, I don't want either the US or the CCP to be able to abuse/spy on me. But it's insane for US to claim the moral high ground when the legal barrier to the government using private data is literally just they have to pay a private company to do it [1]. That's not much different than the government directly owning shares in a company. Either way money flows from the government to the company in exchange for user data.

Sure the CCP is worse in that it prevents/breaks encryption, inspects packets but the US doesn't enforce the use of good security practices and really doesn't care when companies get hacked. We freak out that the TikTok app might be tracking us but we don't even notice that 20 other American apps on our phone collect & sell data.

The only real path forward is decentralizing the platforms such that E2E encryption is mandatory.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-...
It's not like the US system where people have to choose whether or not to call an ambulance but it's obviously better for visitors to come with health insurance since a policy covering most emergency healthcare, and various other eventualities that could happen on a trip, is probably around US$10-20 pp.
Adding in root certificates and performing HTTPS MITM even on your own network is a huge risk on its own. You're basically breaking many layers of security such as certificate pinning that just get disabled with any custom root certificate. Those middleboxes will always break client certificate authentication and you're trusting that they are checking the various revocation lists they should be (CRL/OSCP/various built-in blocklists).

For your basic premise to work, it also means that the MITM middleboxes will need to support the DoH protocols and support recording, and filtering those responses.

Additionally, custom roots certificates will only work on devices that you can actually set a custom root certificate for, a great example is IoT devices. Is your TV suddenly talking to a botnet or was that a legitimate update?

We can argue about whether those middleboxes are even sane to deploy (hint: they're not), but what is historically true is that they are known to update slowly to new protocols, if at all and are known to cause compatibility issues for traffic that is inherently expected to be unchanged. They're enough of a problem at the _TCP_ layer that QUIC was explicitly designed that minimal information is available in the protocol headers so middleboxes would have less to mess with.
This most likely won't reach you, but anyway, inform yourself.

16x9 - Child Labour: The Dark Side of Chocolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWFXeIZY9g

Documentary. The Dark Side Of Chocolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vfbv6hNeng
How much machine learning and black box decision making does autopilot in a plane do?

My understanding is none, or nearly none. VNAV follows GPS waypoints with well described, manually designed behaviors for things like climb rate, bank angle, etc.

Autoland isn't machine learning either, and has such a large list of requirements to be allowed that it's basically like designing a self driving computer for a train.
> Isn't the car rental industry in shambles due to covid-19? There's probably plenty of trucks (or similar vehicles such as SUVs/minivans) available for rent for cheap.

I've been renting a full size pickup truck from my local enterprise RAC for less than the price of their cheapest sedan over the last month, but my friends renting uhauls have had a lot of trouble getting them.
Anyone have any experience with this? Seems to be MIT Licensed...

https://github.com/robertleeplummerjr/Leaflet.glify/blob/mas...
I have family and friends that were military pilots (of WW II vintage through to the 1990s) and would argue that the shared style is due to factors other than imitation. Among them:

• 1930s - 1960s (perhaps beyond) military pilots were selected by a highly meritocratic process that corrected for disparities in wealth, class and education (but not race, gender, sexual orientation). As a result, there were large numbers of pilots raised in poverty, with no college degree, & strong regional accents. These individuals became officers and then seeded the commercial airline culture that exists today.

• By the late 50’s at least, the military strongly selected for a particular personality type. All candidates for flight school were given psychological assessments. Among the factors selected for was how they reacted in emergency situations. Having lived among pilots all my life, I can absolutely confirm a tendency to remain absurdly unexcited by physical danger and fast-moving crises of any type. They also tend to under-react to situations that require resolution but that lack the same crisis atmosphere.

Anecdotal, but in summary my guess is the military developed a template and Yeager was an exemplary fit.