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> Apple is sitting on 300 billion in cash - I expect them to do something with it.

“Do something with it” doesn’t have to be reinvesting within the company. Apple has been doing a good job returning excess cash to shareholders, spending roughly $250 billion since 2015 to reduce shares outstanding from 22 billion to 17 billion.
What if the information in the universe is constrained by yet -unknown physics?
> Apple is sitting on 300 billion in cash - I expect them to do something with it.

Why can't they just pay it out to shareholders and let them figure out how to invest it?
I've repeated this many many many times. You don't work at a startup to maximize your net worth. You'd be better off working almost anywhere else and come out on average with a higher net worth.

you work at a startup because the salary is sufficient for your needs/goals and its work you want to be doing and dont think you would be able to do elsewhere (at least with the same ease). If either of those 2 choices aren't being met, you probably shouldn't be working at a startup. If both are met, you might not be caring that you aren't maximizing your net worth and hence why are willing to work there.
MOND isn't a model, it's an umbrella for models that change `F=ma`. Seems like most MOND models still don't account for a large amount of observations, but it's probably worthwhile to compare the person-hours devoted to fitting dark matter models vs. MOND models, and give the MOND approach some benefit of the doubt.
Are you sure an EV is still that much more complex in terms of part count from a phone ? An ICE I would agree.
The person you're responding to was paraphrasing a famous comedic observation. To quote Yogi Berra: "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
REST is so inefficient. All those bloated text fields.

HTTP is so inefficient. All those newline-deliminated case-varying strings.

Logs are so inefficient. Error codes are so much shorter and precise.

Computers are here to make humans' lives easier. But it's not easier if we're forced to use tools that communicate in obscure ways we can't understand and later need translators for. If a human has to debug it, either it has to be translated into a human-language-like form, or it can just stay that way to begin with and save us the trouble of having to build translators into anything that outputs, extracts, transforms, or loads data.

JSON is actually a wonderful general-purpose data format. It's somewhat simple (compared to the alternatives), it's grokable, it's ubiquitous, and you can `cat` it and not destroy your terminal. But of course it shouldn't be used for everything. Actually one of the only things I find distasteful about JSON is the lack of a version indicator to allow extending it. But maybe this was its saving grace.

If "blowing CPU on JSON marshaling" is your big problem, boy, your business must be thriving.
Not really. But this variant does have novel mutations in sections coding for spike proteins. Whether and how those are functional improvements for the virus are tbd.

See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423118v1
500,000,000 is not half a trillion.
That's my perception as well, but iirc, time was slow for me when I was 25. I'd attribute this acceleration to neurons wearing out and thus needing more time to conduct signals, as well as growing apathy when there's less "wow" moments in life and more of "I've seen this before". Adrenaline allows to temporarily restore the proper pace of time.
Actually, earthquakes _are_ a thing in eastern Palestine - it's right next to this major fault line:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian-African_Rift_Valley

we have very-minor earthquakes occasionally, and I think a major earthquake once a century or so.
> The reality is that if Tesla were to record every command I ever give the car and post them online against my will

The way echo speakers are implemented is that the device only determines if you used the wake word and then sends it to the cloud service. However this wake word detection is sloppy and turns on more often than it should. It's filtered out on the cloud service side, but it creates a situation where extremely private moments are uploaded. For end users this means that you can't be certain when it's recording vs when it isn't....

IDK how it's implemented in cars, but the STT features I've seen require the explicit press of a button and IIRC it's inferenced locally on the car's hardware. Which is possible thanks to the car's high energy usage and price. But it might depend on implementation and it might send telemetry back to the manufacturer.
I've worked with ex Apple supply chain people, and they were very used to operating at massive scale and the leverage that came with it. This led to some some unhappy suppliers some of which walked because they felt we were being too demanding. I don't want to overgeneralize, some of the issue was likely the culture of this particular team, but I could definitely see growing pains as they move into a new vertical with suppliers they can't push around as much. There's a lot more to it than "Apple is good GSM"
Microservices taught me how to correctly apply DDD in a monolith.

That's probably the most useful thing I picked up on the last year's.
How did apple differentiate their card from the competition? I don't see any reason I should prefer it to my amex.
I tried all the Goodreads alternatives so you don't have to
But car and cdr in Lisp and Scheme only retrieve values; they do not copy any aggregate object.

When was the last time you saw recursion on list[0] and list[1:] in a production Python program, or even a tutorial?
Tesla isn’t really that profitable, especially relative to market cap.
> We could select for this using jq, but promql already lets us filter by metric names so we'll do that instead

I think it would have been much better to do this via jq instead, for the sake of demonstration. This is, after all, an article on jq, not on promql...
IPod came out before cheap flash storage. I am surprised it worked as well as it did for shoving a laptop hard drive in a music player.

Would a car be like that now? Batteries are close to too expensive, but 38k model 3 says we are close...
>Why would vaccination increase the likelihood of new mutations, or mutations surviving better?

Our immune systems are general enough to face a wide variety of viruses, infections and strains.

When one is vaccinated, it gets prepared for that particular strain of a particular virus. The cost is that it could become more vulnerable to other infections... it's the cost/benefit of specialization vs generalization. Reference: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14970928/

The reason is that the immune system is highly optimized and it is optimized to be flexible enough to save enough individuals for the next generation. It is not optimized to save each and every individual against all possible infections. That is unnecessary, as far as evolution is concerned.

Having said that, vaccines generally don't weaken individuals to a slightly different variant of the same virus. It should rather strengthen it. The immune system expects the virus to mutate so it prepares for the mutations to an extent. In fact, a category of vaccines called live-attenuated vaccines are basically weakened strains of the same virus (these can sometimes mutate into dangerous strains, eg. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/polio-vaccination..., but that's a different discussion).
Isaac Asimov did an interesting short article on the full moon and increased crime.

He concludes crime goes up because we have a connection to the full moon rather than the extra lighting.

His article was written decades ago. I suspect today he'd change that idea given the better data available.

Personally I think adding lighting to cities makes personal safety far better. I get what the studies are doing but I think they are relying on novelty to get published over boring.

But certainly you have to watch putting someone down a well-lit underpass over crossing a not so well-lit busy road.

I think the value to the data is for councils to find where lighting should be improved. Plus there's also more to safety than just crime.
Hmm, it's hard to say (and a lot depends on how performant you make the vector loads) but it's really not comparable as the load pairs target any arbitrary (and renamed) architectural registers, whereas the vector load targets a different register file and just a single vector (= much more regular).
Is every program with variables a "fuzzy logic" program?

Is my thermostat a fuzzy-logic air conditioner?
Not that I disagree there's an anti car segment here (I'm personally very anti car) but a car can be (can not necessarily is) an effective murder machine. What other pieces of personal property does Western society openly embrace everyone owning but that can be used to murder people? I'm not saying that's the intent but when people call them murder machine the point they're raising (hyperbolically) is that cars and dangerous pieces of machinery and that has to be taken into account more when we consider urban design.
In the same way that it's Facebook's prerogative to spread misinformation on their website, it's the user's prerogative to understand that they shouldn't trust what they read on Facebook. There is no way to stop the spread of misinformation on social media, attempting to curtail it to some degree is a PR business prerogative not an actual solution to the problem. Ultimately this is a cultural issue, we need to train the next generation to understand that anything read on social media should be implicitly distrusted; citing something you read on social media should be regarded as the intellectual equivalent of citing something you saw in a movie once. Yes, true things can be depicted in a movie, but nobody believes the movie is an acceptable source for itself, if a film claims to depict true events, it is expected that reliable sources will not contradict the film.
Wow that’s so cool, I was thinking about something similar for piano midi, seems pretty sad that the best piano sounds are reserved for more expensive pianos. I agree about initial reviews being difficult to deal with. Maybe this is the wrong route and you need to work with the biggest electric guitar YouTubers first? If you get them onside you’re golden I’d say. Good luck!
I'm struggling with this for my side gig. So let me try:

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You can activate the wipers with one of the control sticks, at least on the model 3.
Oh man, am I glad to be European. Walk to the bar, cycle to work, take the tram if it rains. American cities built for cars are just so sad.
Amiga had a nice trick called the RAD disk which was a ram disk whose content would be preserve across soft reboot
That's the part you outsource, until you can find someone naive enough to bring on board full time.
This was an excellent video, thank you. PBS Spacetime also did a video: https://youtu.be/72cM_E6bsOs
That is all well and good, but that is a different value proposition than what CentOS, until this point, was offering.

The original value proposition of CentOS was that it was a bug-for-bug compatible, drop-in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
This feels like groundbreaking technology, and detectable with the phone camera! I’m amazed at how our species acts in the face of imminent threat.

Going on a tangent, I feel like so many discoveries can be attributed to difficult situations pushing our resources in a single direction, that it might be worthwhile to simulate some sort of malign event somehow on a planetary scale.

Imagine if you will, wargaming a realistic alien invasion with all the world governments... what advances would result not only in technology but international cooperation, supply chain management, resource distribution etc.
Very nice.

The FPGA thing isn't that inaccessible to normies like us (i.e. some FPGA Dev boards will easily cost thousands and thousands), but the ecosystem is a complete clusterfuck so getting started is the hard bit. Obviously you need to know electronics too but 80MSPS will let you get away with a lot (The term is signal integrity) of bad circuitry (as I can attest to...).

Verilog isn't too bad as long as you treat it as a description of a circuit (in a language from the past, not even mentioning VHDL...)
“well they didn't keep their supply chain ethical”

No - I’m saying that didn’t keep their supply chain ‘ethical’. Perhaps nothing could have done.

"ah but they tried and failed"

Weird that you put this in quote marks as if it’s something I said. It’s not. You might be saying that, but I am not.

Contracts aren’t magic. It’s not a ‘failure’ when someone breaks one. What a contract would do is give Apple the legal mechanism to switch to another supplier despite having agreed to pay Wistron to make iPhones.

The contract only means something if one of the parties doesn’t do what is expected.
Yeah I still think touch UIS absolutely suck and the best example of this is the android WiFi GUI (idk if they changed it after kitkat, that was one of the main reasons I dumped it.) Everything is modal and you can never predict the mode, multiple layers of controls are constantly popping and sliding over/under eachother and there's no tactical feedback that lets you know when you're over the control you want. Screw touch crap I want my PDA keyboard back!

In a car it's extra bad because now you have to look away from the road and position your hand in a bumpy car to adjust the temperature/radio/navigation. It's so awful in my friends cars I dread the day I have to buy a new one.
Maybe, but this shows lack of emphasis on safe security practices by the company.
I will say, telling my car “my ass is cold “ is a pretty fun interface.
It's odd to see something this naive published by Microsoft. Software arms-dealers currently operate in very similar ways and have equivalent relationships with government that physical arms dealers do. They provide value and provide services that unfortunately are a necessary evil for nation states, the ability to strike and harm their adversaries via software. Sure, I disagree with the ethics of the situation (as much as I do with the free-agency of arms-dealers who sell AK's to african war lords and missiles to terrorists), but to say they "don't deserve a free pass" is really just a cheap take from Microsoft and largely it's never going to even be Microsoft's decision.

The even more cynical alternative take of the publication is that Microsoft wants governments to prosecute groups who profit from their sloppy work. Which is ironic, since the only reason they write windows exploits is because Microsoft has a de-facto monopoly on government / consumer operating systems.
> Even if this is technically the same affordance as provided by old school web directory

The point is that unless they are extremely well made, the affordance and accessibility is much worse.

OTOH, I lowkey like those environments for social events. Maybe it's just that I'm somewhat introverted, but I find that having a playful/gamelike environment as opposed to a chat window makes interactions less awkward.
> I appreciate your optimism. I tend to be optimistic about the future myself. But there is no law of the universe that everything will work out ok.

Isn't there some QM law that says that with infinitesimal probability anything can materialize at any point in space? Meaning that after everything has collapsed, you can (will!) still re-materialize somewhere in space. An infinite number of times!
> Worse, lenders write, and universities accept applications for people they know statistically 99.999% they will not get past the first year.

Sounds like the subprime mortgage scam by the banks, given that they know the US government is going to subsidize the 'losses' and they will have extracted their profit one way or another. Anyone who thinks Socialism is some de-facto virtuous ideal needs to see that collusion between State and X happens in just about every Industry already for private largess. And often is sanctioned, regulated or at least likely to have light to no punishment if caught: see banking fraud.

I honestly want COVID to make the University model obsolete, it will have been worth it if people see how nebulous and impractical the absurd expenses when in reality you can do 75% of courses online anyway; its entirely a predatory model. This is such a drag on young people's lives to have 50k+ in debt in your 20s and are some how sold the idea that you are 'making it' by working to pay that off just to get some entry level position you could have done with a 1-2 year apprenticeship by the time you were 16 like they do in many Germanic Countries.

It's absurd to think this model can go on, and as you mentioned the pernicious statistic rates they are worse because not only is it short sighted thinking that doesn't add value to Society, it can only extract it from those least likely to afford it.

I got honors and letters of recommendations while I was in my undergrad and the only time I ever too them out were to show employers when I applied/interviewed for jobs, and most didn't care either; otherwise they sat in a desk in an envelope as they're reminders of time poorly spent in something I had no interest in by the time I was a sophomore and would come to hate entirely but couldn't get out of until I was 26 due to the debt.
Show HN: Winix, writing my own operating system
Tesla's worst year (2017) had them at -3.5B$ cash flow. Apple has 200B$ in cash reserves. With that kind of money they could afford to purchase an existing car company and sustain similar losses for a few decades.
It's such a good thriller of a game, there a very few other games that have the experience it could create.
But you are the oldest, because every distant object that you see only shows its past. The further, the younger.
And functions should be no bigger than your head.
Sample size of one: if I create a new sub Reddit or a FB community, it’s unlikely that making money from that community is my goal.
> Scheme is far, far more performant than C.L. and that's due to language design choices.

Even if that claim is empirically pretty dubious it's idiosyncratic at best to compare putative design impacts of specifications (rather than implementations) between CL and scheme ... when python is in your mix.

I suspect this isn't going anywhere useful so I'm out.
I once worked at a consultancy that did government contracting. They had a hard time finding new software engineers to work as consultants.

So they got the idea, that they could hire other STEM Master's and PhD's, offer them an average software engineer salary and train them up to become good software engineers. Many software engineers scoffed at the idea - so you're hiring people from Physics to do web apps - pfff, what do they know about creating software?

Well, I'd say a third of my coworkers at the time were from "academia" - I felt absolutely no difference. The company is thriving and they have more than quadrupled in size since I worked there five years ago.
Yes, it's on Python level. There is also JRuby and TruffleRuby that pushes the limit further.
I don't find it surprising at all, sadly. After a reorg, one of my colleagues on a different team (largely Master's degrees in ML) told our new team member: 'You shouldn't be worried, being assigned to their team is an honor. They're hardest to get into -- it's full of people who didn't just skip all the hard courses.'

In many ways, hiring advanced degree holders is a crapshoot. They have skills you probably can't train, but often times come in with fewer software development skills than your undergrad intern, despite theoretically having more years of experience. You don't need to know git to publish in IEEE, or write unit tests or readable code, or debug an edge case, and your only code reviewer is a professor who doesn't care about this either. 'Good enough to publish' is a far cry from 'customers will pay for it.'
To this day, it a dream of mine to sit on the bench of a Cray 1
Not sure about millenia but in the last century the communists have done well, about 65 million for China and 20 for the Soviet Union.
Looks like someone at ServiceNow owed a VC a favor.
Nobody is going to be able to look at a file on your C:\

(at least I hope so)
> No other competitors have scaled (yet)

What numbers are we talking about here?

Tesla seems to be the most sold EV car to date, with more than 650k model 3s shipped so far. That's remarkable, but it's the same magnitude as the second on the list, Nissan Leaf, which has 500k shipped.

There's also more to electric than battery EVs. It was obvious from the start the transition to electric is real but that real scale will start out with hybrid electric for the first decade or two. Any manufacturer serious about scale would want to start in that end because in order to be good, models needs to be designed from the ground up. In comparison, Toyota has shifted 15M Priuses. That's scale.
Reminds me of the movie Armageddon - - Russian cosmonaut with hammer, this is how Russian fix things ! Russian mentality has always been about who can drink more and still stand up, who has the bigger tank, rocket, device, etc. Old school macho style.
There are multiple explanations for why the sky isnt lit up with radio and laser signals from advanced civilisation. The great filter is one explanation, that there are existential crises or threats that wipe out most civilisations or cause them to collapse to subsistence level. Nuclear war, biological weapons, ecological collapse, paper clip maximising AI, etc.

I once ran a Traveller RPG exploration campaign where one of the systems they visited looked really odd on sensors. Just fuzzy clouds and clumps and ring formations of diffuse metallic debris. It turned out it was all paper clips.
The best reaction is to approve a vaccine which does not have a good proven track record? It hasn't been through complete Stage 3 trials, so we don't know if it works or if it works well.

I'm not saying that the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine is bad. This is however very unwise. It would definitely erode trust in vaccines if the Oxford/Astrazeneca were to have significant side effects. Which would erode trust in science in the long term.
CNN and more of its fake news.

It's good to keep an open mind. But not so open that your brains fall out. As Judge Judy often says "I don't believe you. That story is ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Navalny is doing his hardest to maintain his '15 minutes of fame'. But he really is irrelevant in today's world.
You mean like a phone book? (which still is a thing where I live)
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Facebook doesn't "decide what is misinformation". When you need to figure out if something is true, you don't check Facebook as a source because everyone knows it's not an arbiter of truth, it's not productive to speak as if it is one.