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> As Daniel Boffey notes for the Guardian, using a metal detector for anything other than scientific research is outlawed in France.

Oh wow, there must be a big story behind this law. How could something so mundane as a metal detector be banned? The article says he "stole these from sites", is that implying he went to active dig sites or public attractions?

There is so much to unpack here. Are ground penetrating radars also banned?
What's your take on Scala 3 (Dotty's) DOT calculus?

edit: I'm asking because, from what I understand, the DOT calculus puts the Scala type system on sound foundations.
Robinhood was indeed too good to be true
Just because you enjoy crushing business rivals doesn't mean you also want kids to die young. I think Gates simply enjoys the challenge and the technical side of things.
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Consider the historical parallel to the tobacco industry’s research departments. And asbestos. And lead. And talc. And etc. The researchers found that the products were harmful, but their results were squelched. “Do no harm,” indeed.
I disagree, but I upvoted since I hate the kind of downvote you're describing and I am regularly downvoted for the same reasons.

I think it adds a great amount of value, I can have a group discussion and plan things in real time instead of a slow async discussion.

Especially for online games, a async communication would be terrible. ;)
shipping info is recorded on place order time.
Yep exactly. This is also why the "GDP vs stock market cap" graphs for different countries don't really make that much sense - or at least, they portray different things than they are designed to portray.

It is definitely true that the US market cap has become "decoupled" from its current economic output, but as you say, that is a (rationalised) prediction about the state of affairs in the next year or three, it's not "oh no everything is cer-aazy!"
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Maybe I am missing something?
The idea seems to be 'using variables'. If so, it does not need a new name like 'design tokens'.

Plain CSS itself supports variables and they are easy to use.

The styling in the example is not using CSS, but something that looks like javascript. Does anyone know what it is?
> The only cost-viable methods to get 'broadcast quality' imagery for streaming/recording right now is to buy a second hand DLSR or mirrorless camera

Erm, no. Camo Studio with iPhone XS I am now using has DSLR-awesome picture, above any webcam on the market. And iPhone's BPM for camera sensor and ISP is probably in 10s of dollars. I want to buy this from kickstarter yesterday :).
The theory how to scale up car production is well known, and the established players like Toyota are already masters at that (lean and just-in-time manufacturing were after all invented at Toyota). It's Tesla who's having issues with scaling up production[1].

We're in the middle of a turning point in the car industry. I'd wager in 2-3 years sales of electric cars will already be a sizeable chunk of the market. Within about a decade electric personal cars will take over sales of petrol cars. But nothing suggests that VW, Toyota etc. would not be any less apt at producing electric cars than Tesla. On the contrary, the established players have a MASSIVELY superior pre-existing production capacity and expertise.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-batteryday-producti...
Terrible recommendations. One can start watching relatively harmless “list of Pokémon with illustrations” or “evolution of super Mario characters” videos and instantly it will start recommending videos of violent games or live-streaming gamers swearing - so it goes from something age-appropriate to something totally opposite.

Also don’t get me started on getting bombarded and suggested only “sound variations” videos which are noisy, rude and an attack on the senses - pure garbage content. Definitely a huge leap to assume I’ll find this interesting based on my previous choices.

Maybe instead of complaining here I should just go ahead and delete YouTube :)
Yeah I do it, and you have to be relentless. Mark every video you don't want to see.

And god help you if you watch even one off-topic video - like another comment mentions, YouTube algorithm then concludes you want to see a million more. Reminds me of a Weird Al lyric about TiVo: "I watched Will and Grace one time, one day. Now TiVo thinks I'm gay."
I think the message to take from that was not one of Jobs’ narcissism, but that the world was shaped by ordinary people, and that you and I (or him for that matter) can do the same.
> Have you ever been in a union workplace?

why would he want to be in a union when he is a top earner compared to great majority of people in the same country? and aside from a relative freedom of speech he works in very favourable conditions with a lot of perks and a generous severance package if he gets fired? working at google is the very definition of privilege.
The ACLU was always a staunch defender of free-speech rights, but that is no longer the case. They now only defend the free speech rights of people on the left side of the political spectrum. For example, they will not defend religious speech, the accused in title IX cases, pro-life groups, etc.
From the article: "What they’re saying: “Tesla shares are in our view and by virtually every conventional metric not only overvalued, but dramatically so,” wrote Ryan Brinkman, a JPMorgan analyst, in a research note."

Checked Ryan Brinkman's rating: https://www.tipranks.com/analysts/ryan-brinkman

Not very great performance...

On the other hand:

"Yes, but: Tesla makes cars, but they could also be categorized alongside pure tech or electric vehicle companies. It is early in the "golden age of EV playing out globally," says Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities."

Dan Ives rating: https://www.tipranks.com/analysts/daniel-ives

Everyone can draw their own conclusions, of course.
No, but my work life was amazing.

There are important things to address at Google, like not having enough sitting toilets for men (there's 3 times as much for women even though there are much less women in the office where I was working) that an union may help with, but that's different from the product PR.
I actually looked at kubespray first but first of all it did not work out of box as promised. And to troubleshoot it you basically had to know about kubernetes already.

So it made a lot of sense to start at the official docs. And while I'm reading the docs, why not build the cluster at the same time. And while I'm building the cluster, why not write each step down in Ansible so I won't have to repeat myself.

So end result is my own ansible setup that I'm happy with and I know inside and out.

It always bothered me to run other people's ansible playbooks. I'm too much of a control freak.
The difference is that AI research teams are full of philosophy graduates who think if statements are racist
Strange that they don't mention offering a paid (ad-free) version.

I'd be willing to pay money for a quality product, but would not consider putting adware on my devices.
Can you provide a citation for that 450x cash flow statement please?
Major broadcasters (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) have been trying to sue streamers like Locast civilly for years now. So far, they’ve been unsuccessful. But going from the threat of monetary damages to 10 years in jail will allow them to get others to back down even if they’re wrong.

https://www.locast.org/attention
And that’s why I was happier when basic research was mostly being carried out in public institutions.
> Ah ha, but you see, you can perform transformations on tagless-final terms that are not strict catamorphisms ... so matching two levels deep is possible.

No this is not correct. Oleg provides a solution to double negation by creating a catamorphism that folds to a function. It's still a catamorphism. And folding to a function is not something the average Java programmer is likely to understand easily.
> and they have MASSIVELY superior pre-existing production capacity and expertise.

They need batteries for those cars. Are they also investing in battery production?
It actually sounds like the co-founder knows what he/she's about, and could potentially restart a competitive offering quickly enough. In which case bringing about the demise of the initial now toxic partnership is also an option.
I think the issue here is that I want a chat app that allows payments (which exists, but maybe isn’t widely adopted yet), not an expense app that does chat. That’s why I don’t live the name.
IMHO, a scientist capable of striking any tone in their work, positive or negative, is doing marketing / PR work rather than science.

There's nothing wrong with that. Just like any other member of society, a scientist may want to contribute to a (for-profit or non-profit) organization of their choice, be it for material or spiritual rewards. However, I think it's important not to get science and marketing confused.

So, I think a more precise title would be "Google told its scientists to strike a positive tone when they use academic papers as a marketing tool".
Wait, he went around different sites all around two countries digging this stuff up, and officials were surprised he didn’t turn it over to the state?

Nobody could be bothered to retrieve these artifacts in the first place. I don’t see how the state has (or should have) any more inherent right to them than this guy.

The least they could do is pay him for the objects. Apparently they’re worth 700k!
You gave advice to the project on how to attract users that don't know what RocksDB is. I'm saying that they probably don't want users that don't know what RocksDB is.
It’s some weird perversion of our systems that an entire class of people are able to pump a company’s books in private and then dump them on the market for pension funds and retail investors (aka working people) to pick up the debts. This VC thing is just class warfare in disguise with more steps.
It is at will employment, the company makes it clear what you have done there, they want to have a say on it.

If you want independence, goes to academia instead (though it is not easy to obtain it either)
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like China is in any rush to do reusability. This is more of a fun hobby now for them.

It seems they are more interested in throw-weight, in pursuing the Long March 9. It’s safer to establish the capability first, then, to work on reusability afterwards.

And they’re locked out of the western commercial launch market, so, that’s irrelevant to them. So they’ll just have to stick with domestic demand.

The next interesting play, is if they go forward with space based solar power. In which, they will need the Long March 9, for its excellent Saturn V level throw-weight.
It's true money can buy a lot of them, but you can barter too. E.g. make a deal with your housemate to clean the house if they'll do a few hours research for you.

So you have to spend/trade something, but (for me) it's harder to think of what's worth spending/trading for. Hence the post.
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I thought it said BMI and had something to do with weight, that was funny and confusing for a second.
Why does your last bullet point make me feel like we read two different articles?
There is a letter here that does a better job than the linked article: https://transportation.house.gov/news/press-releases/chair-d...

Basically, it sounds like they agreed to auction 3.7 - 3.98 GHz & 4.0 GHz - 4.2 GHz. This leaves a gap in the region of 3.98 - 4.0 GHz for radar altimeters. The letter states "recent research confirms that even this spectrum gap is insufficient to ensure radio altimeters are protected from harmful RF interference by 5G networks".

I don't know enough about a radar altimeter's operation to speculate as to why it could be an issue.
Physical products cannot scale like software or social network products. This is especially true of cars, which require billions in capex just to create the factories that produce the cars. Perhaps 15 years from now Tesla could catch up to Toyota but certainly not the sum total of the big 7.
Although in 1600, London residents were allowed to spend Christmas with their extended families and gather in public to celebrate. In 2020, they cannot.
Buy from a competitor then
That's actually what prompted me to post this.

I don't know how Youtube's algorithms work internally, but lately the front page is just so broken that it's baffling. The sidebar recommendations are another discussion -- those are possibly more pernicious but at least not as obviously dysfunctional.

How is it possible to have the largest repository of video content in the world, yet Youtube is only able to recommend me the same videos over and over again (half of which I seen already or quickly clicked out of). There is also a simplistic list of recommended categories, which I would change if I could, and those never change either.

If the front page were just completely random, it would be better than it is now. If I could actually tell Youtube to show me videos with a low-to-moderate view count and a high upvote ratio, then that would be fabulous and I probably would encounter new subjects and ideas rather than getting stuck watching the same garbage over and over. I'll never let my future children spend even a second on Youtube, because the stuff that it recommends to kids is so asinine that it just makes me mad.

I really believe that collectively we are all much dumber because of the Youtube's pathetically bad algorithms.
I had to look for it too. It isn’t clear and should’ve been. I’d like to know it is an enhanced renamed version of something I know rather than dismissing it because I can’t find time to learn something new.
Nothing went wrong. The batteries weren't good enough as compared to combustion engines.

The batteries are now almost good enough but not quite. Batteries still need to become cheaper, safer, faster charging, higher energy density, and more durable.
You're thinking business, but this is more like Teamspeak (or Discord).
2021 will be an interesting year and the feedback I got after my latest booklet / lit review aimed at Silicon Valley problems is just explosive: tightening regulation, legal actions, anti-monopolies concerted effort will ramp up dramatically at worldwide level.
The US has suffered a cyberbreach
Isn’t cash already expensive?
>it seems to assume the subject is now the love of my life

christ, no kidding. this was my first clue that google has fundamentally changed as a company and it was time for me to leave.

ive been using gmail since it came out and watching YouTube with a signed-in, non adblocked experience for years. the algorithim doest give a SHIT. if i watch one "The Office" clip, thats suddenly 60-80% of my feed despite the fact that i dont particularly like the show. im not sure what theyve doing with all my data theyve been harvesting like gollum, but it sure isnt being used for my benefit. (i dont have kide, no one else uses my account, dont watch youtube through vpn, etc etc)

and dont get me started on the ads. ive never installed an anime girl fighting game, from gplay or anywhere else. stop it.
Not sure what your point is considering that I expressly noted the existence of fast food steak houses like your example in my parent comment. I mentioned the existence of places like Longhorn Steakhouse and Outback Steakhouse which are places where you can get a $20 steak. Cattleman’s is a two dollar sign on Google indicating it’s a typical fast food steakhouse restaurant like those examples above.

Most people would draw a clear line between a hamburger and fries from McDonalds for $5 and a hamburger and fries from an upscale burger place for $20. Those steakhouses you are referencing are McDonalds equivalent and every city in America has them in additional to upscale steakhouses that are 4 dollar signs on Google. It looks like Mahogony Prime Steakhouse would an example in OK. The comment I was responding to expressed disbelief at $100 steak which is a staple of the American experience (meat eaters obviously) and not at all “just for upper middle class” Americans. Giving out a steakhouse gift card for birthdays and graduations was pretty common amongst lower class families when I was growing up. Buying a $100 steak twice a month might be upper middle class behavior but buying it once or twice per year is well within all but the lowest classes ability to purchase when desired.
Yup. Inflation created by QE ends up in the stock market where pretty much anything goes these days.
People will act like this is up for debate.
Yes, they are. Volkswagen for example is ramping up its own battery production capacity and opening factories: https://electrek.co/2019/09/23/volkswagen-battery-cell-produ...
We, that is you are free to devalue Facebook stock at any time by not buying it.

The fact that most people are not doing that should tell you that you are not as much a part of the dominant "we" as you think.
Are future earnings relevant to people who plan to sell stock at a profit? Stock traders’ earnings come from selling the stock not from a company’s earnings. It’s greater fools all the way down.
No idea how prices are in the US, in Europe so they should have margins in excess of 15 - 20 %. Former Amazonian from operational logistics.

Not saying their prices aren't competitive, for smaller volumes they very much are. Amazon is just milking their volume effects to a a max.
Protip if this annoys you: go to myactivity.google.com, delete everything and pause all further collection. Now only your subscriptions and likes count (and maybe a few other things that are not considered "activity"). It's so much better! Did it once and now I don't want to go back.
Right, so it's not that it's not possible but rather it's somewhat awkward to express non-compositional folds in the final approach. I'm not currently aware of a mechanical way to do the translation.
Author here. This is a great point. I'll add the non-obvious DIY options to the list. They're just as important.
I think being aware of what's happening to you is the right direction. The content rarely engages you, and that's part of the feature that's trapping you. Partial reinforcement is extremely addicting. If you gave somebody a pile of dimes and said "put these in this slot machine, pull the lever and get 11 cents every time" nobody would play that game. But the randomness of a slot machine means that when it hits, your brain lights up.

Youtube's "recommended for you" section is a slot machine for whatever will engage you. For me it's novelty, for a lot of people it's an irresistible clickbait title. Nobody is immune to it, although I feel the hacker news crowd might be suspect to clickbait much more specific than whatever youtube chums the waters with on their front page when you're not logged in and have no history (open Youtube in an incognito window to see what I'm talking about, it's terrible).
Long time ago I tried to open a bank account in the UK as I was moving to there. Main problem was proof of address, I couldn't proof it because I didn't receive the utility bills and/or contract as my employer was paying it. Even having money outside UK didn't count at the end my employer had to write a letter to proof I had a job, and lived at address X and then I got a shitty bank account were I could only use the bank's ATMs. Luckily a half year later I could upgrade to a normal account once I was able to get a mobile phone plan (similar proof of address issue)
"Alternatively, Flix can be thought of as a functional programming language with a very powerful embedded query language. A Flix programmer can use first-class Datalog constraints to simply, elegantly, and efficiently solve fixpoint computations inside functional code. It should be noted that Datalog is strictly more expressive than relational algebra (~= simple SQL)."
I actually once did a short contract for a YC company who I found on the monthly "Looking for freelancer" thread here. That was quite a few years ago now though, I don't think those threads have as good a signal:noise ratio as they did, unfortunately.

I've not really had much luck finding freelance contracts with US companies, as the ones that have good rates usually (understandably) want people in the same timezone. All my contracts since 2013 have been in the Netherlands.
ikr, is it really that easy to mess with a radar altimeter? (hides signal generator and RF amp behind my back)
If Apple is truly entering the car market, then Tesla’s valuation is validated by an attachment to this confidence on growth from a player like Apple.

It will only come back down to reality after Apple hits the market and we see the true competitive numbers across the car makers (or until Toyota goes harder at EV), but until then, it’s a future-minded investment into a sector where we are expecting stronger players.

It would be the same as being 10x bullish on cellphones years in advance with the belief that smartphone companies will validate the market beyond our wildest imaginations.
Cf https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/journals/opar/2/1/arti... [PDF] for some background on the law.
Batteries are commodities these days. Not competitive advantages.
> (In the following, I assume that tail-calls, i.e. those where a function end with another function call, but without modifying its result, do not actually use stack space. Once all recursive function calls are tail calls, the code is equivalent to an imperative loop, as we will see.)

No, it’s not “tail call”, it’s “tail recursion” or “tail-end recursion”.

“Tail call” could be interpreted as any call from a function’s end, even one that adds to the stack.
Um... the Long March name is derived from the beginning of Mao’s rise to power. He was the most genocidal man in history, responsible for something like 75 million deaths. “Long March 8” is literally worse than calling it The Holocaust Rocket. Anyone else have a problem with that?
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Poor Google managers. Nothing they do, say and think is private anymore. How sad :)
> internal correspondence read to Reuters

so, all of this opinion piece is based on hearsay?
Ah, I realized now by context that you’re only talking about android. (You only said device manufacturers so I thought you were referring to iOS as well.)

But I had this whole reply typed up for iOS so, may as well include it:

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I can only speak for iOS, but it definitely doesn’t work this way on iOS.

The ability to run in the background is something you can grant to any app, and there’s no special treatment of any one third party app versus another.

It’s not unlimited though even if you do grant the permission... if they use too much memory in the background they may be killed, and there’s a limit to how long they can stay running in the background.

Push notifications are supported anyway, because the apps servers are supposed to deliver push notifications to APNS, which delivers them to your phone on behalf of the app even if the app is closed.

But the transition from “app is running in the background and notifies you” (which can’t last forever) and “app is killed but the server delivers a notification through APNS” (which works when the app is dead) is often implemented poorly by developers and isn’t seamless. It’s hard to get it right.

But no third party apps get treated any different in this regard.
Tesla's PE ratio for 2020 is 627; it is forecast to quickly decline to a more reasonable 144 in 2022.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/tsla/price-ear...
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> The difference is that AI research teams are full of philosophy graduates who think if statements are racist.

I'm not sure I understand. Are they worse or better?
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