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Nobody going to talk about the neo liberal mindset? most companies that really profited from the silicon valley revolution are based in texas for the lower taxes (i'm talking about the 80s ones, not even the recent events)

Most people i know from there preached smaller government and that they should lower taxes always to bring more private investments, while everyone defends their own properties with their own guns and provide for their family on emergencies with their own capabilities etc.

what happened to all that?
Synology NAS. Seagate Ironwolf hard drives are a good pairing. You can setup your NAS to backup to AWS Deep Glacier or GCP equivalent so you have redundancy still.
Huge fan since I saw them in Skydeck Berkeley, also Jorge is one of the best talented engineers, and managers I have ever meet and an inspiration to myself. Awesome to see Adam & Jorge pushing the limits of ML to make ML accessible to everyone!
The site's creation is understandable when considering how destabilizing social media has been. Just look at how the US has changed from 2008 to now. Here's a particularly relevant quote from the article:

"Every social media [platform] has to be responsible, to a certain extent, of what they bring into a country because it defines a lot of things in the country, like youth culture or how citizens of a country react to a situation.

"When a company is registered elsewhere and doesn’t take into consideration the nuances of the local culture, I think it can be dangerous. Indian entrepreneurs building for Indian cultural nuances is better than somebody who doesn’t understand the cultural nuances trying to build for India."
If we're talking about South Korea, you need to add widespread testing, mandatory quarantine for confirmed cases, and isolation for people possibly exposed.

Regardless, areas of the US that have mask and social distancing mandates still have high case rates. It seems like the driver of surges in those areas are mainly due to people violating other restrictions, like having indoor gatherings.
> wind reliability when gas and goal are offline completely?

This is false. Natural gas and coal increased production during the week of Feb 9-16. Natural gas energy production in TX on Feb 14 was over 10% the high summer spike of 2020.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a more recent change?

My understanding was that people criticized Valve's rates in no small part because of Epic coming in and offering lower ones, and Valve responded by saying that they'd cut rates for big publishers.

Maybe I'm misremembering the story.
I can still only imagine where we would be today had OS/2 won out and become the standard rather than Windows.
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This is how I feel tbh.
Temporize the backlash, gather the data from the disruption, take final decision. I take it not so many folks moved off in the end?
Oh I'm sure he's concerned. But there's precious little he can do other than doing what he can to get vaccines rolled out faster and closing borders to foreigners. Most people certainly support the former and most are at worst indifferent to the latter. He can also set a "good example."

But getting into a tussle with states he thinks are opening up too much, etc. is almost certainly counterproductive at this point.
It also launched 8 years ago; the web has changed a lot since then. Edge wasn't even around until 2015, much less being used for webviews.
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I'm not making a value judgement. I prefer GC'd languages. I'm saying: if they're not GC'd now, when there are multiple excellent choices for managed-runtime languages, it ain't gonna be GC'd. And obviously, it's not going to be C++.
Texas's policy decision, to remain separate from the other grids, dates to the 1930s. It's not about being constrained, it's about this policy choice. ERCOT, the current organization that manages Texas's electricity, dates from the 1970s.

Trying to explain this policy choice in terms of the current political climate is ahistorical and a little strange. How could an informed person believe the current governor has anything to do with decision dating to the 1930s? However, that's the kind of explanation you were offering, and that's what I'm objecting to: this curious recency bias, so prevalent in tech forums, where everything that happened more than 10 years ago is not real.
Well, your source doesn't necessarily contradict my claim. If there had been similarly competent propaganda on the risks of more and more extreme cold events due to global warming, to the same extent as climate change denial propaganda, perhaps the trend in this study might change.
One theory I've heard is that the magical soil in the US would compel the riggers to confess and/or provide evidence of their guilt to the courts and to the general public, rather than lying and/or concealing that evidence. In the rest of the world, courts often are not provided with relevant evidence or confessions, and therefore rigging remains possible.
I still don't understand this. Who is buying art at this ridiculous prices? My only explanation is money laundering but if someone has another explanation please comment
I've lived here for 10 years, so I might be a little biased. Monterrey is by far the most "americanized" city in Mexico, no doubt, and it's mostly a business and industrial hub.

As for tourism, there’s not much to do, at least not when compared to other Mexican cities with more heritage and culture. Being a big metropolitan city, there are many fine restaurants and entertainment attractions, and for me the stand-out landmark is Chipinque, a federal park in the mountains inside the city. You can go there to walk, hike, or ride, and you get a very nice view of the metropolitan area.

All in all, if you were making a tourist trip to Mexico, I’d recommend you pick some place else before coming to Monterrey. However, if you get to come here as a business trip, you’ll definitely have a nice time!
Throwing one's weight around using capital is a lot easier than innovating.
Yup, and I wish more people would recognize/admit this. The lockdown decisions may be the best decisions, but let's not pretend we're not trading some deaths for others.
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> It's a hard problem, which is why no one has solved it yet.

On the contrary, the Common Lisp condition/restart system solves it, and it's maddening that this hasn't been adopted anywhere else.

An exceptional state signals a condition, and without unwinding the stack, looks for a handler for that condition, which can, among other things, restart the computation from a lower stack frame. In development mode, it defaults to dropping into the debugger/repl; in release mode, an unhandled condition panics.
> The difference is that there's an underlying assumption that base reality is analog and perhaps continuous rather than discrete

Those seem like pretty unjustifiable assumptions. How can anyone possibly know how physics “should” work?
It was a great experience. And I'll cherish it. Free servers aren't the same. Might setup a server on my local network some day to play with my kid.
Ask HN: Good Rust Codebase to Learn From?
I'm especially interested in codebases of services, web services, data processing/ML and distributed problems in general.

Also, curious to see any large code base and how it is structured and how it may differ from existing patterns.
i don't want to be over-libertarian here but you need to take care of your property. I, myself, have a burst water pipe in an exterior wall right now (i live in Dallas) i don't blame the power company for that. I blame only running the cold water side of my sink during the coldest nights. It was the hot water side that froze and burst.

edit: before anyone replies "but the water service failed!" then you turn off your water at the curb. and before you say "the city has to do that!" no they don't. You should have a key (from any hardware store) and know how to operate the valve.
Uber’s issues were with shadier ad networks afaik. Despite the noise, fb is actually one of the better sources of digital ad data, which speaks a lot about the dysfunction of the space overall.
I wasn't talking about developer choice, I was talking about end user choice. Given that statistic, I think it is pretty obvious that we as developers stand to make more money on iOS than Android regardless of Apple's 30% cut.

There are a few reasons for the discrepancy though. Someone else already mentioned the higher average quality of apps on the App Store.

One facet is the difficulty involved in pirating iOS apps compared to Android, likely because Apple makes sideloading so difficult. Pretty much any kid can spend 20 minutes searching around on Google and figure out how to get paid games for free on their phone.

Another variable is average user affluence. Apple is popular in developed countries with sizable middle class populations, and they position themselves as more of a luxury brand. Android devices run the gamut from ultra premium to ultra budget, catering to user in every socioeconomic class. Apple users on average probably have more spare cash to spend on apps.
i recall one time in my teens watching saturday morning cartoons and seeing an ad for golden grahams. i said to myself "i'd like some golden grahams right now," so i hopped in my car, drove to the grocery, and bought some golden grahams.

that's the only time i was consciously effected by advertisement, but i also suspect the mind bending happens so much on a sub-conscious level.
Many years ago I started playing Ultima VIII out of a nostalgia trip, and not having been exposed much to the legendary Ultima VII before, I thought VIII was a fun game for the most part. Can't remember much of it today, but a really bad experience would have made a more lasting impression ;)

But I also liked Ultima IX (the 3D Ultima), despite being plagued by bugs and terrible performance in the beginning, it was eventually brought into pretty good shape by enthusiasts.
Either it's shenanigans now, or it was shenanigans during the Presidential election. I guess it could be both.

I think we should all go sign that petition; they can't reject us all without making themselves look worse.
Call me crazy but...

Maybe people that have an issue with google wants to fix this issue, and a machine is the wrong option for this.

Whereas to cancel a service there’s no reason ever for having to talk with a human?
You forgot the post-install step of asking everyone for their username/ID. It may sound stupid, but this is a huge barrier to entry for a lot of people. It's hard to build a network when you need to ask everyone 1. If they're on a service 2. What their ID is.

With Signal, friends and family just have to install it and, bam, I'm already in their contact list, along with any new person who joins.
I grew up in India - nationalism is definitely a growing concern for the country IMO, more so than can be expressed online by articles such as this. And nationalism definitely has a huge overlap with hinduism in the country.

Creating siloed media platforms that lets such ideas fester and grow is probably the worst thing that can happen.

The thing is that even gently challenging these ideas (with some folks I know back home) leads to an aggressive defence strategy that is pretty much focused on some variation of nonsense arguments rooted in 'talking points' being pushed by nationalists that aren't rooted in any fact.

Some variations I've experienced: it's foreigners trying to stir the pot, farmer protests have nothing to do with farmers but it's to do with destroy India's unity by fringe groups, etc. On Greta/other celebrities shining light on farmer protests: they're being paid money by third parties to meddle in local politics, etc.

Other scary things I've seen are pretty much labelling anyone that disagrees with you as the other (this includes the opposition party Indian National Congress, etc.) and instead of listening to valid points being brought up, there's this Meme-fication of the person/party that's worse than trolling and borders on attacking every trivial detail from the person's life.
What to consider when going hybrid
Monitor III for the win! I'll never forget looking at Ultima through that monitor's silk-like anti-glare texture while being serenaded by the restful tones of a Mockingboard...
i usually go with the cheapest.
Easily the worst part of this for me is that Australia has put me in the position of supporting Facebook/Google - which I almost never would do otherwise. The control over what if anything Facebook/Google can parse automatically/display as a preview is defined by open standards that are well documented putting it wholly in the control of the media organizations. Additionally content being posted to Facebook by users comes from the media companies own customers… Ben Thompson and others have documented this well:

If you want to tax the social media companies and redirect that revenue to journalism - write that law and make it happen (assuming your constitution allows for it). But trying to frame this as redressing an imbalance in power is ridiculous, and the binding arbitration process defined is ludicrous as well.
I'd see locked firmware as a bug. Nvidia probably wouldn't agree.
Yes, but digital maps are old enough that my elementary school had a networked GIS package to show us maps in the computer lab in the early 90s, and it's much older than that.
Possibly related: Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/scientists-entered-p...
That might make sense for you personally but if you consider all the other Texan households also buying generators, and the multi-family dwellings that can't each have a generator, the math starts to look different.
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I'm talking about knowledge of the NLP literature beyond GPT-3, and other machine learning basic technical stuff
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Fall massively, I would imagine. Tesla's valuation is obviously not driven by fundamentals, Musk's personality is one of the things it is based on.
But it is.

If you have multiple services in one repo it's much easier to work on each of them.
Remember when Ubuntu started commercialising Debian?
Then show us some instead of waving your hands.

For what it's worth, I have no real stake in ads one way or the other, but I would upvote a post if it was backed by solid data.
> The fact that people are prevented from accessing data that they funded, and by all rights own, is an absurdity.

Is this also true for software? https://publiccode.eu
I'm pretty sure Django has an active record ORM, which are generally a bit rubbish in terms of performance. A unit of work ORM such as SQLAlchemy seems to generate much better queries.
No, because the US currently has no such long term storage facility in operation.
Not every simile is an analogy.
In kids it has basically that affect - no worse than the common cold.

Maybe the big difference is that living adults didn't catch covid-19 as kids, because it is new. Since kids are growing up in a world with covid-19 they will catch it like any other covid-cold, priming their immune system so it never sends them to the hospital should they catch it again.

Maybe this also explains why the common cold kills people sometimes. These unlucky people never caught that specific coronavirus as children, but rather when they were older and more vulnerable.
> Meanwhile 16GB of memory

Oh if only that was enough. My Safari is currently using 25.33GB¹ and and it regularly goes over 30.

> 1TB SSDs cost less than $100

Ah, if only it was that easy.

¹ (According to iStat Menus; it's harder to see in Activity Monitor due to the separate processes.)
Texas Capitalism is the real issue. Its all Hat and no cattle.
If you're interested in machining, check out the Business of Machining podcast. https://businessofmachining.libsyn.com/ Every week John Saunders of NYCCNC talks about his business with John Grimsmo of Grimsmo knives (they make $1000 pocket knives on cnc machines). It is an excellent podcast about machining and business.
> Contribute to uBlock and bring no-ads to everyone instead.

Contribute to uBlock Origin [0]. uBlock was also stolen for profit [1] and takes money to whitelist ads.

[0] https://ublockorigin.com/

[1] http://tuxdiary.com/2015/06/14/ublock-origin/
Nx – José Valim – Lambda Days 2021
Must be the persons wordplay on Nicolai
Thanks for sharing Timothée, but in my penny opinion the problem is with Error handling i can't find anything about it nor in docs, also loading html over the network it really decisive.
but for me i will keep using react, and let's wait what Strada add.
With respect to SLBM, they are less prone to destruction in normal warfare. What happens if an enemy destroys a ballistic submarine? Do you go to nuclear war over that? What about two?

The only way that I see this question arising is if there were direct, open warfare with another highly capable nuclear weapons state. But if the US has gone to war with such a NWS, I think that the logic of rational deterrence has already failed on at least one side -- even if neither side has yet used nuclear arms. Outcomes after that point can't be calculated on the basis of rational cost-benefit analysis because rationality is no longer the driving force.

I find the logic of mutually assured destruction sound as far as it goes. Empirically, it seems correlated with a long period free of (direct) warfare between great powers. But I fear that this mechanism is brittle. It's one accident or leadership cognitive error away from shattering.
I don't think he's saying that his take should exclusively be the reason to work os OSS, but rather he thinks that the freedom to use OSS should be the same for everyone.

You both state the major reasons why people do it.
Why does 'nationalism' concern you. Is 'nationalism' always or almost always negative?
I read that they were mandating an exact match for the recall, but an approximate match for the election.
In the past 30 years, this has happened three times, so it's more like a once-in-10 years event. This just so happens to be the worst of the three
Treating elderly cancer patients does not negatively affect the lives of other people.

Locking down the near-entirety of life has long-term physical and mental health implications that we probably don't fully understand. There have already been suicides directly attributable to COVID-imposed isolation.

It's possible -- and even likely -- that the lockdowns are the right move overall, but the lockdowns themselves have destroyed lives too. Taking measures to protect against something that overwhelmingly affects one segment of the population has a big negative effect on everyone else as well.
One can argue that having ICBMs increases ability to borrow more money.
I appreciate your reasonable response. I wish we could have more discussions like this rather than the shouting matches of "masks in grocery stores are tyranny" and "you're a selfish asshole for occasionally wanting to have human contact".
Sounds like you're looking for robots rather than people. You pay a high wage to have the individual tell you what to do, not the other way around.
Distributed systems is more than just consensus protocols.

At minimum, you need to start dealing with things like service discovery and accounting for all of the edge cases where one part of your system is up while another part is down, or how to deal with all of the transitional states without losing work.

> Why? Because putting things behind a network can, counter intuitively, lead to more resilient systems

If you're creating resiliency to a set of problems that you've created by going to a distributed system, it's not necessarily a net win.
I don't get why you're so focused on the negotiation part. I'm guessing your services happen to be very in demand, which is great and gives you the ability to successfully negotiate. There are lots of other contractors that fail to negotiate and end up accepting a client's first offer. Are they not actually contractors?

For #3, drivers may be penalized for being logged in and rejecting rides (though even that may have changed recently). But that is more akin to missing a deadline or not being available at an agreed upon time, something which any contractor might be penalized for. Uber drivers are always free to just decide not to log in and work at all and aren't penalized for that.
Please please please tell me there was video captured from this angle!
Finding Meaning
I think this is fundamentally a problem amenable to a cost-benefit tradeoff discussion provided you get the costs and benefits right.

If the argument is “this went badly because of a lack of winterization because the costs were improperly considered”, I can follow that logic and agree. If the argument is “this went badly and this is an engineering problem for which cost-benefit analysis has no proper place”, I disagree pretty strongly.
That's a fair point. Perhaps my statement paints too broad a brush. I get paid to work on open source software, so I agree it's not only worth doing because it's fun and meaningful.

I guess I feel lucky hitting the sweet spot of enjoying the work I get to do on open source and be paid for it at the same time.
Odd title or adjective. Considering the name of the country is Hindustan/Bharat.
It's not a new idea, for instance

https://github.com/webview/webview

...has a fairly long history. It's great for extremely small application packages (when I tinkered around with it on macOS a few years ago I brought it down to 26 kilobytes).

The usual argument against the idea is that Electron gives you a fixed Chromium version to work against, while the system webviews are a moving target with different underlying browser engines.
"instructed their followers to leave Western social networks for Koo, a local, free-speech platform."

This is a funny turn of phrase given that it sounds like a lot of people are leaving twitter for Koo because twitter isn't doing enough banning to suit them.
My understanding of the term "neoliberal" doesn't include relentlessly lowering taxes or shrinking government. Maybe you mean "neoconservative" or "libertarian"?

To me, neoliberalism is better characterized as balancing market and non-market approaches to addressing social problems (more market-oriented than progressives, more comfort with government intervention than conservatives).

Also, sorta weird to blame Silicon Valley attitudes for a failure of the Texas government. Yeah a couple of companies from SV are opening offices in Texas, but this problem has been at least a decade in the making and it's not like SV is a dominant force in Texas.