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I write C++ for a living, and one thing I've kind of noticed a similar thing to what you've mentioned. "very generic" template code often is best left to a name such as T, but a very specialized piece of metaprogramming often benefits from specific naming.

The latter scenario being that hopefully the person debugging your logic a decade from now has some insight into what you were thinking, namely.
Uber agrees to buy alcohol delivery service Drizly for $1.1B
There is no signal or quality difference between different sizes of headphone jacks, except that bigger ones might last longer.

For very long cables or high RF you might want a kind of cable called "balanced", which comes in every size except 3.5mm. Some audiophiles think these make headphones sound better, but it's probably not true.
You’re getting better. :)
I had been assuming that the FTC chose to give small fines. I found it interesting this article clarified they aren't allowed punitive damages in this sort of circumstance.

> In a joint statement on Tuesday, FTC Acting Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, and Commissioner Noah Phillips, a Republican, called on Congress to give the FTC the power to create gig-economy rules that more clearly explain what type of behavior is unlawful. The pair also are requesting that Congress give the FTC power to issue large civil penalties to first-time offending businesses as a further deterrent to engaging in schemes like Amazon’s, which FTC commissioners called “outrageous.” Amazon will only open itself to such a civil penalty if it violates the terms of this settlement.

> Slaughter said giving the FTC power to issue penalties for first-time offenses would create a powerful “one-two punch,” along with the agency’s existing ability to recoup lost wages for workers.
It's as accurate as it is inaccurate. Had Robinhood not been able to find hundreds of millions of dollars of cash that day, they would have been declared insolvent.
Classic 101 PR Crisis Management: Divert, Deflect, Blame Someone Else
And the developers have already left.

When using gnome wayland is already the default in most major distributions already or have been announced for the next major version (such as ubuntu 21.04).

I don't know about KDE more than that they are making progress. If they within a few years make the same transition then pretty much every single default installation will be on wayland. A few moments after that XWayland will become the leading X-server. X will surely live on for decades to come inside wayland, and that is fine. And X will surely be an option for an eternity in some distros. But it will quickly become quite niche, similar to the way systemd has become the mainstream init system.
> As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues. Two high-impact examples: our $15 minimum wage and the Climate Pledge.

Perhaps I'm overly cynical, but I don't think they made these moves because of altruism. They do pay their warehouse employees more than some warehouses, and people talk about changing jobs to work at Amazon because the pay is better. But they also talk about how demanding/grueling it is. I'm not sure Amazon could get people to do this work, for this many hours on end (in some cases allegedly without sufficient bathroom breaks) for less than $15/hr.

As for the climate, I think they would have been clobbered by environmentalists had they not done this. So while it's good that they pay their employees more than minimum wage, and they make efforts to reduce their environmental footprint, I view both of these moves as being in service of the bottom line.
There were those who saw his play. However there was another group of people that wondered the Amazon approach at that time.
Fwiw, a "face book" is a thing you would get at Harvard (and Yale and presumably lots of other schools too but I'm not sure), kind of like a yearbook but at the start of freshman year instead of the end. So for the earliest thefacebook.com users, the name was actually familiar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
If 10000 people walk down the street, and 10 of them light a building on fire, is it correct to refer to it as a violent protest? There has never been a large demonstration, anywhere, that didn't attract some bad actors and opportunists. I won't say this is bootlicking, but it does seem like a position that never leaves you on the side of popular demonstrations.

15-26 million people participated in the protests in the US last summer. The 1-2 billion in damage[1] is a shocking number taken on it's face, but if 20 million people poured into the street with the intention of causing damage, they would cause orders of magnitude more damage than that. Adjusted for inflation, the 1992 Rodney King riots in LA caused 1.4 billion in damage[2].

The main demonstration in my city last year, which I attended and attracted thousands of people, were totally peaceful in vibe. A group of people burned a bank down in the evening, but it was a totally different group that formed hours after the main BLM march and was 20 miles away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-insurance-civil-unrest-ri...
It's also because the US has numerous vaccine options for 2021 and eg the EU does not.

The Oxford vaccine simply isn't that important to the US accordingly. We have Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, along with Oxford. The US will end up with far more vaccine options than it needs. The EU is desperate for any vaccine supply because of how they massively screwed everything up. The US by contrast is going to be flooded with vaccine supply and is barely breaking a sweat. Given the US didn't even put forth its best effort and it's showing up the EU so dramatically, you know the EU really botched things.
Got a Classic one on a job and fell in love with it too, so I recently bought a used one and now a replacement battery (just have to actually do the replacement ... will be fun given it's not made for it). The keyboard is just lovely and especially coming from ThinkPads the cursor is super good too. Hope I can keep it alive for a long time!
My memory is there were some stores that had "customer reviews" before Amazon, but they were all screened by the company before being published. So every product would only have 5 star reviews.

When Amazon came out with real reviews, it seemed crazy to many at the time -- like why would you want to share bad things about your products on your own website? I thought it was awesome.
Yes plz. No one wants to know the difference between those two. Of course, you still do need to. But don't make the problem worse by writing code breaks when you mistake one for the other.
"I have a very unique setup that isn't catered to by every website on the internet and I have no real solution for this."
They do have a reputation issue, and it does cost them some business. There are CTOs who basically won't touch a google product in beta because there are so many things that get pulled.

That being said they are good at running vms and storage. They are really good at running kubernetes. Their network is amazing.
Those blockers should be things that give you falsifiable stories, no?

So if someone says "it's because we're blocked on [slow delivery of designs from another team]" and you measure that specifically, and then improve it, and you notice the team's output hasn't changed, you've learned something.

I've certainly seen those reasons before, but haven't seen people turn them into specifically measured things versus "ok let's see if we can improve it" with often little or ineffective followup.
Both of you could be right, depending on the hardware sometimes GNOME w/ Xorg works better and sometimes it's the other way around.
All answers to this will have to be anecdotes, unless someone has access to internal memos that instruct managers to systematically engage in such manners. My personal belief, based only on friendly conversations with people who work and worked in big tech, is that the culture in those companies (especially Google) convinces employees that these "growth hacks" are valid, and that a winning variation in an A/B test immediately means "this is good for our users".

One example that I like referring back to is from a product manager I interviewed a few years ago. He was very proud that he was part of a team that realized that since Android has a lot of users and Gmail is the default browser, they can show content to people on Gmail on Android to promote other Google mobile products. No competitor of those mobile products could reach that kind of wide advertisements, and why did Google get to advertise there? It isn't like they paid the most for the ad spot, or had the best product (most mid- and low-tier Google products are _awful_) - it's because one group could go to another and tell them "please put this promotion over there".

And one that is more of a conspiracy, but there is evidence that comes up every now and then: Google AdWords has better targeting and data collection capabilities than any other network, because Chrome allows AdWords to collect data that other systems are blocked from collecting "due to privacy concerns". But somehow, AdWords getting that data isn't a privacy concern.

My belief is that this is because Google employees honestly in their hearts are convinced they are the good guys and it's OK for them to have this. I'm sure in some cases there's an exec that weighs in, but in so many cases it's Google's elitist and entitled culture that makes employees think that they are superior and infallible to employees of other companies, so it's OK for them to do this. And yes - there is corporate responsibility and liability for the creation and maintenance of such a culture, when it is so pervasive.
The difference is that other libraries are actual libraries that factor out common patterns, whereas the libc, despite it's name, is more so an interface, especially it's system call wrappers.

It sits so close to the kernel that the concerns of changing semantics apply as easily to the kernel as they do to the system call wrappers.
I don't see what they have going for them. Squeezed by big ecommerce game stores and subscription services and free-to-play games on all sides. Customers seem to hate their meme-rific trade-in policy "Cyberpunk 2077? best I can do is $5".
Which also implies everyone is a descendant of Dante.
`null` isn't a valid value for "date" because it is defined as `date?: Date` which evaluates to the type "Date or undefined"
We don't have access to the internals of these system obviously, but we've worked very very closely with some of our customers to make sure nothing weird is happening after switching. It previously required a lot of fine-tuning, now it's usually quite smooth.

For the FB Pixel, we're doing both :) We do use the Conversion API (with the first-party cookie), but we sometimes do reconstruct the GET request on our backend and pass the final URL to the browser to execute. Most tools are not as complicated though.
>Italy has a lot of historical continuity.

It doesn't. Italy was one of the most ravaged parts of the Western Roman Empire, it has less historical continuity than Spain or France. Only Britain does worse.

>If you go to Rome, the manhole covers read SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus).

That's propaganda. The link between the Roman state and Italy was something pushed by the fascists and it stayed behind in the popular mindset (since it's a more pleasant to think of yourself as the True Descendants of the Romans than a playground for the French, Germans, Arabs and Greeks). But go a few centuries back and people made as much a connection between Roman ruins and Italians as they do now between the Pyramids and modern Egyptians.

Realistically continuity goes back to the Renaissance, which saw the birth of an indigenous Italian culture as well as its mass export (favoured by the fact that albeit constantly invaded, Italy wasn't torn apart by the religious wars that destroyed the rest of the continent).
Looks quite nice! I'm sorry for your past experience with HN, sounds horrifying.
Without accusing you of any -isms, OP merely said that, given how far they sit from the screen, the font is too small.

You conflated that with sitting too far away. There are a lot of reasons why that might not be correct, including presbyopia. I think it's unlikely OP is sitting at that distance by accident, since it's pretty easy to move a monitor closer, so one of those reasons is more likely to apply than is your assumption.
If your team is a constant blocker because you're undersized, you should be given more headcount, or some responsibilities should be shifted around. That's then necessary to upper management in order to remove the blocker.

(Assuming an org that's making a genuine attempt to improve, versus just a cynical blame game. But in the latter case... you're screwed sooner or later anyway.)
I could see it breaking up at some point, when our antitrust regulators wake up to the monopoly that Amazon has become and splits the company into multiple parts.
Thank you for sharing the video. I liked seeing Bezos on startup phase. I had not heard the story, so I learned that he started as a quant on Wall St and left that job to start Amazon later in life. Many people expect tech startups to happen in your college dorm room, but Bezos took a completely different route.
>If I bought airpods today, they'd likely be useless within 5 years.

Giving too much credit to Apple. The battery will die in 3 years even with very limited usage. If you use it daily it only barely last longer than a year. Replacing Battery cost $49 each.

The AirPod is one of the worst purchase I had from Apple.
Yup, you're absolutely correct. Null is considered a valid value for a default param.

function test(a = 1) {
console.log(a)
}

test() // -> 1 is printed
test(null) // -> null is printed
test(undefined) // -> 1 is printed
It's not surprising, it's just that she was getting widespread systematic and cultural pushback in the vein of: "It's not the time to tell stories about White Men". Of course, her own rejection of the industry wasn't popularly covered either in the press.

The industry preference is for sympathetic stories of Aboriginal, LGBTQQ, PoC etc..

This becomes apparent everywhere there is government or related money, i.e. grant applications for projects, even commercial enterprises.

Of course there's some thoughtful impetus behind this on some level, but these trends become cultish and authoritarian, sometimes promoting some upside down worldviews.
I'm 17 years old and last week, my projects were on the front page of HN 3 times.
Here's another way of framing it:

Having messed this up so very badly doing idiotically risky things from the start the latest big risk taken by the UK government didn't actually backfire as badly as the previous ones. Others have pointed at the current per-capita deaths. This completely ignores the long-term effects to survivors accross the population.

It can be a challenge to see how the UK government could have dealt with this worse. It's a highly educated population that has put the brakes on the most destructive policies from the very start.

I really hope the wider population comes to an appreciation of "asymmetric risk" from this the way "metal fatigue" entered popular usage with the aeroplane disasters of I think the DC-10.
The first page after doing a Google search is inundated with ads.

Not to mention the ad proliferation on YouTube.
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Claiming a different definition of free will does not make you right about free will existing.

At the fundamental levels of reality, free will does not exist. It isn't even meaningful to talk about. Particles react to their environment. That's it.

You are just a giant collection of particles reacting to it's environment. You will never be able to be anything other than a giant collection of particles reacting to it's environment.

Moving this collection of particles from one area that is unpleasant, say a really cold environment, to one that is warm is not an exercise in free will. It is largely a predictable process based on a sequence of events occurring within the collection of particles.

Defining free will as "making choices", such as building a fire to warm your house because you are cold is not proving free will exists. It intentionally lies about the fundamental nature of reality that you don't have to. Yes we make choices as far as we can tell from our experience of reality. But that doesn't disconnect you from the underlying reality that it is not up to you what your particles do.
This is absurd. Capitalism is predicated on the ability to loan out money. No debt means no credit for new businesses. No mortgages. Governments can't issue bonds to raise capital.

For all it's evils, our modern society and advancement as a species comes from capitalism. Society would literally collapse if we "do away with interest bearing and yielding assets."

That being said, we can still work to create better finance regulation.
Welcome to any of my codebases. Undefined and null have clear semantic differences, and those differences are important to the function, safety, and performance of the code.
Maybe 3d-printed containment vessels and Seuss-like pumping toolery?

Could geodesic domes solve this problem given market economics and current penalties and incentives?
For starters, I guess that an rsync of / will not backup the entire system then.
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Voice chat is unnecessary to me and many folks, we use Discord or Skype.

Local co-op is a thing in Luna, but I'm not sure about online multiplayer. But in GeForce Now I just used Steam and it worked flawlessly.
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Same reason Amazon didn't show a profit for years. Just means they are continuing to spend more than they make in an effort to grow and to find those killer apps and services that will make them the dominant player.
that's a good point, nothing inherently wrong about negative results papers, gotta follow the truth where it leads.
I'm sorry but "better and better" is a pretty ridiculous way to characterize the situation in the UK. We're under pretty much the most strict lockdown conditions, and deaths peaked to a ridiculous level in a totally predictable and preventable way due to the christmas fuck up.
Amazon just settled with the FTC for stealing Flex drivers’ tips. Likely that’s just the tip of the iceberg in their screwing over the people who make their products move.
This does not match my model of people at all. I did have a gambling problem as a teen so I know those brain chemicals very well and they are not conductive to anything other than greed. If there's promises of easy returns / free money, you'll find tons of fools ready to jump in.
Didn't Yann LeCun do important work on CNNs there as well?
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Better still. The people that read NewsCorp will bleat that said Deputy Leader is a "Lefty plant" for "Lefty Fairfax" now

The two companies have shifted the overton window so far that they can play off each other to maintain a false narrative of 'balance'
I'm not sure if it's what you mean, but the RC2014 ecosystem ( https://rc2014.co.uk/ ) is a modern-retro design fairly heavily inspired by S100 systems. It's a backplane + boards Z80 system (...with a few other CPU boards made for it) intended for modern hobbyists. Little bit expensive because it's boutique (Minimal system is about $100, a big nice CP/M box with good I/O would be $300ish). I haven't had the disposable time and money for one, but they look like good fun, and honestly pretty easy and cheap compared to real period equipment these days.
That sounds similar to a CSS proposal called container queries, which has been a much-requested feature for many years. Currently the only native way to do responsive design is to make styling changes based on attributes of the viewport (like width). But like you say, it would be nice to have dynamic layouts for every individual component of a website. Container queries do that.
I don't see anything wrong with accounting for substitutions. If beef is too expensive this month, then people do switch to chicken. They haven't lost anything.

It would be false if somehow this became an infinite treadmill where the basket went from beef to chicken to lentils to sawdust, but that's not what happens. The substition smooths out short term changes in price the same way people actually do.

The economy acquires robustness through this redundancy, and the CPI measure reflects that. It's far from a perfect measure, but its failures aren't caused by the perfectly commonplace action of buying the cheapest goods today. Insisting that it has to be precisely the same goods would indeed be a distorted measure of the economy.
It’s only for small money transfers, up to $25k last time I’ve looked at it.
I think you are leaving out a really important aspect of the early internet- content discovery was really hard for users. If you were looking for something about Pets until google became dominant, you were just as likely, if not more likely, to type pets.com into your browser as you were to go to a search engine.

Getting the initial traffic to your site was really hard in those days, the domain was really important for that.
What's your point? Spread the wealth around for the rest of us regardless.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "proven to work". Give me any society in the history of the world, and I'll give you a moral framework that makes that society ideal. There is no right answer, there is no reference society we can use as a baseline.

Do you want me to cite some philosophers that try to justify the value of democracy?

> However, many of those in power today won't allow it to happen since it is against their interests.

Is this bad? Can you prove it? The idea that the few shouldn't rule over the many without their consent is a political opinion.