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Show HN: Simple idea to make Google billions of dollars
Here is a simple idea to use free of charge. I don't care as I would just like something like it for my own use. Some credit would be cool. This took me all of 5 minutes to think about so it isn't like a great effort was liquidated.

Call me a google aficionado. Or google fan (is that even logical?). I would like to see google beat my idea over the head of Amazon. Since I know they have wanted to do something like it for a while now. So here is the plan drawn against the Amazon corporation:

Google Maps Menu

a story

So you search for a business on google maps one day.. and you notice a button beside most businesses in the results list, labeled "menu". Intrigued by this new button, you click on it and it shows a rounded rectangle scrollable box. In the box you see items which you can purchase from this business. Thinking.. hey this is google, this is cool, you select a quantity of your item(s) and checkout with google play. During checkout you agree to flexible delivery costs but you set an upper limit. You are told you have to set an upper limit to delivery. You are told at that point that if you make more purchases the overall delivery fee will be lower. You are like man, I should buy everything this way to get covid free deliveries. You make a bunch of orders, services, products, food. The web page tells you've saved 33% on delivery costs.

In the next scene, where the order is received: the shop keeper gets the order bagged and ready, and sends the ready signal to google. The munchins inside of google's computers dispatch the driver to pickup deliveries in all those make shift drive throughs popping up everywhere.

In a reasonable amount of time later, you get your orders.

The end.

Until tomorrow
You're forgetting the prison labor programs in the US are largely voluntary.

I say largely because there are some cases where punishment dictates certain number of hours worked, etc... but we're splitting hairs at this point.
The current macOS Grapher app is an unrelated replacement for that Graphing Calculator app, which Apple no longer has a deal to distribute.
Sean Carroll covers most of modern physics in a "not dumbed down" fashion here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3j...

It is only a few months old & doesn't shy away from math.
You would absolutely authorize violence by proxy if someone stole your stuff, and if you wanted to cash in your insurance policy it would be required in the form of a police report.
If your claim is that it is not measurable, like many other social "science" fad research then you can't claim that it goes either way. But it is pretty clear that it is even better for people with background social issues, preventing them from getting out to the street and actually being involved in violence.
Had very similar fun in Costa Rica with my rental car and amazing Google Maps directions. Seems like a pattern.
> In meatspace, assigning 100% of the burden of blame to the attacker and absolving the victim of any blame at all agrees with our ideas of morality

There's a lot of victim blaming that goes on for physical/non-cyber attacks of all types because of people's ideas about morality (some valid, some not); where the victim of the attack is generally responsibility to a third party for the care of the object of the attack, that also extends into the legal system (mostly validly).

While your argument that there must be some duty to protect online data well as an obligation not to attack, the distinction between ”meatspace” and “cyberspace” you are drawing on the topic seems specious and ill-informed about the way society in general and law in particular handles responsibilities outside of cyberspace.
Proprietary software is inherently unethical, so I support anyone teaching people how to pirate it.

YouTube did the predictable thing, but not the right thing.
> what the US does do that the CCP does not is allow the open discourse of it's problems, and to change it's policies if people agree

If this is true in practice, then the US prison labor problem is much more tractable than trying to fix an issue in a far off land where they don't allow open discourse. It wouldn't be a disaster if Americans focused their attention on their many domestic issues first, which they have direct control over. But currently there is very little open discourse in the US about prison labor, especially compared to the amount of discourse about Xinjiang.

This doesn't excuse China for the things they are doing wrong.
Civil court has a similar thing regarding double jeopardy. It's just not called double jeopardy and doesn't apply to the state. Multiple people CAN sue you. A single person cannot continually attempt to sue you for the same thing every time they lose.
That's a great example. I wonder how much of that is due to the (lack of) the weight of the coffee, vs. not having to compensate for sloshing liquid that could spill if you aren't careful.
At 0:57 the camera pans to a position where you can see people on the upper floor walking by in the distance. You can see them move as the robot dance, which shows the video is not sped up. You could claim they were composited in (a suicidal move for BD, if they ever tried that), but if you look closely at the windows below, you can see the the camera crew in the reflection, who also move at the correct pace - and that shot would've been hell of a work to fake. In conclusion: this is real-time.
Fun tidbit. I recently started working on my own 3D map renderer, without any 3D programming experience, it wasn't actually that hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XIFC2SawY It looks much better nowadays, but you get the idea...
What processing companies are available to use that don't sell your transaction data by default?
Not a big fan of substack but anything better than liberal media, like Newyorker or NYT. Suck it idiots!
That's fair and I agree. I'm not defending GP's remarks, just adding general commentary.
With 10 threads at a time - not much, but threads are pretty heavyweight when all you need is waiting on IO. Systems where waiting IO doesn't map 1:1 to threads scale to more concurrent users better (Erlang, Node, Go all do this). With evented IO you can service hundreds of thousands of connections (if you have a good way to round-robin between them or some other way to schedule them well). Having the same number of threads will be difficult.
C99 Variadic macros, for one, which allows for a nice to use `foreach` implementation. As for the latest C spec, I use a set of C compilable by C++, since most of the functional tests back-test against the STL, and hence compile with a C++ compiler
[op here] - thanks for the recommendation, we'll check out AntMe.

In hindsight, Corewars was a stupidly hard game to try to teach the intricacies of in a few hours, and because it's based in Assembly it's also mostly irrelevant to 98% of modern day programming students or new grads will be exposed to.

However, as an experiment in UI design and offering a visual portal into the internal game mechanics, this was a dope project.
>Phlogiston theory led to experiments which ultimately concluded with the discovery of oxygen.

It's it possible string theory will create an experiment which finds something else?

Three theory of Phlogiston appears to have lasted 100 years. Our understanding still has plenty of time to change
You’ll teach MBAs.

Or you’ll dump the theoretical physics and spend on hair growth products and techniques.

The market doesn’t care for the long term- it’s an optimization system for competing needs, often with immediate needs overwhelming long term.

Markets also use regulatory forces to ensure that everyone isn’t mainlining addictive chemicals or dis-incentives are created for not wearing seatbelts.
Is there a service that manages your video uploads on every platform simultaneously?
So all I need to do is provide my full credit card number in this random page and then it'll opt me out?

And this was somehow brought to the front page of Hacker News?

This is a very low effort scam. At least put in some effort beyond your dozen shadow accounts on HN.
Yeah bit of a brain fart when I wrote this, I probably searched for that but I tried a couple of terms in each.

Actually I probably was searching "photography" at some point because "camera" was bringing up general retail more and I was hoping an actual repair business would hav photography as a keyword more than a retail business would. Just further illustrates how frustrating this is.
I haven't read the ruling, but I'm surprised. Surely iOS is only licensed to run on Apple hardware, and any other usage would involve making an unlicensed copy?
AI from the Very Beginning: Integrating AI Perspectives into an Intro UX Course
Wonder what would happen if someone managed to opt out every single Visa card. Would Visa have to honor that, or would that be grounds to allow them to opt everybody back in?

Or would they just create a "different" marketing campaign, and just opt everybody into that one?
Cairo – A language to write provable programs
How much is the domain?
I’m just saying the length of time it’s been around isn’t the sole determining factor of whether it’s demonstrated value, or of whether the system it replaced is better or worse. You have to evaluate that on its own merits, and yeah I do think 50 years is long enough to begin to draw some meaningful conclusions. Otherwise "50 years is too soon" seems like some arbitrary conclusion you've reached without a real basis?
Domain and cert are visa. So at least you know you are talking to Visa so it’s not really entirely random.
I'm not debating if it's a bad idea or not - I'm just saying that's the definition of future as the authors intended it. If you don't want that that, then maybe call it an eventual value instead as you don't have the single essential part of what makes a future.
The description sounded like it'd be an RDF schema, and then it even mentions semantic web, but judging by the specification, it doesn't involve those technologies, and rather about hyperlinks (i.e., regular WWW). Which is indeed a bit confusing: I wonder whether I've missed something, and if so, whether integration with wider semantic web is possible and/or planned.
You're a fan of a 'feature' that doesn't do what it should and puts people in danger. I get you just took an opportunity to post a 'look at me and my cool adventure' thing, but why don't you just adapt Chaosmonkey or something to choosing your route and enjoy. Don't imply this is a good thing or other people should follow your example.
> At some point, you just have to give up and do something else.

Imaginably, given the field's topics, they think in different dimensions than on a 20 year scale.
12000 feet hike for beginners??! No. Not advisable at all. Also how you react to altitude is so variable person to person and has little to do with fitness that unless you really know your altitude performance you could find yourself really ill.
I respectfully disagree. The only heavy lifting that governments need is to hold Apple and their executives criminally responsible. Apple has shown ruthless effectiveness in tracking down leakers and prosecuting them. But making sure the workers who are making their parts and assembling their devices aren't slaves or being abused is a bridge too far for the richest company in the world?

I don't believe it. It's Apple's responsibility, and if achieving such a goal in some backwater is too difficult then maybe it shouldn't have been doing business there in the first place.
That's currently legal, so you just replaced "YouTube" with "storage company" but didn't actually answer the question.
Sounds like you’re just advocating for basic income with extra steps. I’m a fan of UBI, but it has to apply to everyone not just the folks on the right crypto forum in 2010.
Unexpected pricing changes have already happened to Google Cloud offerings in the past. Google completely redesigned their App Engine pricing scheme in 2011. In practice this meant a 65x price increase for one of my small services. [1] Among the changes was that the 2008-2011 pricing was based on CPU usage, while in 2011 they stopped charging for CPU usage and instead introduced a slew of other pricing metrics, including the classic VM instance idle time.

While the pricing changes frustrated me, they did not drive me away. What ended up having a much bigger impact was that Google just deprecated everything. Some parts of classic App Engine still run in legacy mode, but get no updates and instead you get constant notifications that you should rewrite your app to fit the new Google Cloud model.

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[1] https://www.kaurkuut.com/blog/google-app-engine-is-a-classic...
Maps Go requires Chrome -- after download, the installer tells me Firefox is "not supported".
>>Forget your home countries , but this is how most people in USA thinks about the technological progress as well.

I was going to comment on your willingness to speak for most people in the US, but tbh - I'm still laughing at the idea of YouTube annihilating people (in self defense, of course). I can just see general M. Mouse commanding the forces with all the strategy and tactics he learned at the Walt Disney Military College. I believe '303:annihilate all the humans' was right in-between '101: manipulating copyright law for fun and profit' and '404: the nuclear option - Copyright for mass destruction'
I’ve done enough naive exploring using only Google Maps to know that you have to use your best judgement. For example, Google Maps has guided down plenty of roads that end up being barricaded on the far end. Sometimes it guides me the wrong way on a one way street, which happened today (and I missed the no entry sign). And like this story, taking some suggested roads were at best calculated poor life choices.
What is your answer? How do you evaluate claims and sources, and this claim and source? You seem to imply that you can't see any difference, and if that's the case (which I doubt), nobody can help you.

> Honest question.

Are other questions are dishonest? Why should we trust you?
Also, if there is any sort of timing difference on valid/invalid card numbers. Boom... timing attack / CC oracle :)
“We learned about u-nets and they r gud”
The US doesn't need to be perfect before US citizens can decry Religious Slave Labor Camps in China, that the CCP denies exist despite overwhelming evidence that continues to flourish.
You can’t base the correctness of a theory on what the techniques it developed lead to.

For example, astrology probably developed techniques of recording astronomical events and likely some mathematical techniques, but that does not mean that astrology is a correct theory.
> When I first understood what entanglement was, mathematically, I was profoundly disappointed. Years of pop-sci had made it seem like a crazy thing, but mathematically, it's quite.. tame. (Some tensor products don't factorize).

Is the _math_ quite tame, or is the phenomenon itself?
Since the ruling turned on fair use, that the use is unlicensed is a given but also not dispositive, since fair use is an exception to the copyright holders exclusive rights.
I hope you're just alternating between the two rather than making them double up on homework. As a student I would find that quite annoying.
I’m oscillating between delight and horror
How dare they ask for you email and password when logging into Facebook?!
I cannot find any information on what the title promises at that linked Github repo. Am I missing something?
If the video is any indication, the 4-legged robots will take over first.
Noob question: how does food work on these multi-month hikes? Are there stops along the way where you can resupply? Do you forage?
That's right, but regardless of how "extreme" testing is, archival grade DVDs have performed as good as M-DISC, and Syylex has surpassed the rest by a huge margin. Syylex promised the same lifetime as M-DISC (unlike archival grade DVDs). I think the results are good enough to see M-DISC either doesn't live up to the expectations or archival grade DVDs exceed the expectations. Either way, bad news for M-DISC. If Syylex hadn't bankrupted, it would have been the best option of course.
Another recommended read (which I’m in the middle of right now) is The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen.

Coincidentally I’ve just reached the Permian mass extinction event, where the author discusses how the ammonites clocked out in a later mass extinction. A related species, Nautiluses, have survived till today and are now at risk of extinction because humans prize their beautiful shells.

We humans are atoms in the scope of geological time, but time will tell if we prove to be atoms of Uranium in Little Boy...
Full repeal of Section 230 to push for $2k stimulus checks
Check for ear wax, once I got it cleaned out and was like the treble knob of the world went from -2 to +2.
> not necessarily

Do you have any serious evidence? Otherwise we are raising random possible problems. Maybe it's a false flag! Maybe it's the CIA or FSB or Martians! Maybe! Not necessarily!
Was also having this recently. Apple for some reason was failing at finding anything along the main stretches of highway I was on (with pit stop style gas/convenience combos) whereas Google was recommending gas 5 minutes off the highway but also recommending Subway which was located in the pitstops with the lesser known gas so then I'm just searching for Subway to find the rest stations instead of gas...
Don't know about where you live but where I do storage units are regulated and could not put a "burn your stuff" clause into the tenant contract even if they wanted to. It's a surprisingly highly regulated business.
Show HN: New Sudoku app to practice advanced strategies
[op here] - thanks for your kind words.

This entire project really exposed us to some of the challenges of the edtech space - mainly how solving the problems of the current edu system and making an edu product that people want rarely actually overlap.

But regardless, developing a sort of custom curriculum for those couple hours of 1:1 teaching and refining that curriculum on the fly, and seeing what concepts kids picked up quicker was super interesting and honestly one of the most rewarding parts of the project.
The economic term is underemployment, where your only options are roles which pay less than what your training level and capacity are.

Lose your job as a foreman at a factory, and you can switch to being a manager at Mc D.

Automation offers more of this, and it’s essentially going to go feed the owners of that automation.

This is all optimization of resources and ownership of course so it’s essentially a question of how the share of the new efficiency derived surplus is split.

Part of which could go to things like keeping theoretical research programs alive.
There's already Luhn and a list of valid starting digits...
I built a Sudoku app to help practice and learn advanced solving strategies. It's a progressive web app that can be used completely offline. Written in Angular with a Material UI.

Drop in on the release party live on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/ersimont. It's happening now until 9:30pm EST December 29th. Ask me anything here or in the live stream about how it's made, or why the world needed another Sudoku app.
> If Apple even tries touching them again, the courts will probably toss out their hearing for fear of double jeopardy

Res judicata, actually, as this is civil not criminal.
It happened to me one in the desert, at night. I have blindly followed Google Maps, and I ended up without a signal, in a middle of no where. Luckily, I was not very far from the city.
> Now those rules might be perverted to suit protectionist goals, but that’s the whole art of effective hopefully minimalist regulation: it’s very hard to do.

Agreed. I'm not saying there's no rational underpinning to regulation, just that it's frequently gamed by bad actors, almost to the point that the original intent is forgotten.
I looked at the cost, 45k GBP each and thought "that seems like a steal compared to US Defense prices".
The robotics field has been moving at a crazy speed for decades.

I think people, probably not yourself, underestimate the complexity of things like bipedal movement. This display was really quite impressive.
(It’s BTC)

There was an article just a day or two ago talking about how our currency is currently a petrodollar. Look that up. Think about the wars we’ve fought over oil, and global warming. Those are the costs of our fiat currency. Bitcoin is cheap!
Hehe.

In September, I was in Hunza, northern Pakistan. The mountains are so tall, like 7k to 8k+ meters tall, I couldn’t even get a GPS lock most of the time. Even with a downloaded, offline map, it Google Maps was less than useless for navigation (still worked OK as a “paper” map).
In these scenarios I usually make sure to pan over the map to see if the routing recommendation looks sane, and use satellite view to determine road conditions. I don't feel comfortable blindly following the turn by turn directions as if I'm being led by a malevolent AI.
Not for anyone that lives in rural areas.
Trust me.

I'm a consultant in a rural area in the PNW and Google maps is literally unusable to access 80% of my client's properties.
> “They have not even filed an application with us yet”, Wathion said in an interview with Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad published on Tuesday.

Seems like Reuters is really reaching with this headline. "AstraZeneca Vaccine unlikely to be approved for European use until February" would be more accurate.

I have yet to see a primary source, but I keep seeing mentions that Oxford/AZ have apparently tweaked the time between the first and second shots which have dramatically improved the effectiveness. That may mean they need a little more time to get the exact data EU regulators want. UK is supposedly approving tomorrow.

I still haven't heard a peep about if they're even going to ask for US approval before their US trial reaches completion.
Says every bad developer ever.
Most of the estimates of power consumption are problematic.

Some are better than others but Alex de Vries's numbers are the most quoted and quite questionable.

The article you linked to refers to https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/8A1CECD1-157C-4... which contains

"An accepted method for deriving an estimate of the energy consumption of mining is to assume that all miners use the most energy efficient mining device available on the market.(3) Commercial devices are accompanied by published specifications listing the number of hashes that can be computed per second using the device, as well as the power consumption of the device in watts. It is then straightforward to calculate how much power is required to compute 50 billion billion hashes per second using the most energy efficient devices available. I performed such a calculation and obtained an estimate of around 5 gigawatts for Bitcoin mining alone today.(4) This is slightly under 1% of world electricity consumption, or slightly more than the electricity consumption of the state of Ohio or that of the state of New York."

The footnotes in turn refer back to Alex de Vries.

The numbers rely on the assumption that the majority of mining is using hardware with efficiency similar to the published specifications upon which they made their calculations. Given the nature of the rate of development and the immediate financial benefit to higher efficiency, it is likely that any published hash-per-joule number is obsolete by the time it is read.

Nevertheless It can be accurately said that Bitcoin miners consume a _lot_ of power and as long as the value of Bitcoin increases at an average rate of about 20% per year, that consumption will stay high. On the other hand, you shouldn't expect Bitcoin to increase in value at 20% per year forever. In that respect the fix to the energy consumption problem is embedded within Bitcoin halving itself. Eventually the value will not be increasing at a rate that will keep up with halving