skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it wasn't for the predatoric practices with device obsolescence I would disagree.

Apple created the platform that allows this service (Fortnite) to exist and earn it's share of revenue. The fee that is paid is not only for current maintenance and upkeep of the distribution platform (which is their store), but also research, development, security measures and most importantly, it is shared with other departments, giving us the Apple M1 chips in return!

Much worse offender is Valve and Steam, where they don't really have many places to allocate revenue from not only store sales, but also the second-hand market.
Of course they are, but Apple loves status symbols. To a large extent they are a fashion company as well as a tech company. For example the constantly rotating design or Animoji. (only available on the expensive model of course!)
And how does that compare to Sony or Microsoft in this case?
I use all messengers and don’t care. But tbh telegram is my favorite one. Slickest, cleanest, fast with tons of features and good UX
No, I think the truth is that it varies. A counter anecdote is my own example: Our team of network, software and systems engineers has seen productivity increase over the past year of wfh - albeit with casual access to the office and labs.
> At a minimum their paying over 2% in credit card fees

I’d be shocked if that were true.
Semiconductor industrial crash? AI news from China, US. More on Basecamp drama
Back of the envelope calculation:

100k employees, each spending 10k/year on business travel... $1B.

The company could choose not to spend this money even without COVID, but it normally chooses to spend it, presumably because it considers the benefits worth it.

Personally, the difference in working atmosphere before and after I visited coworkers from a different country was massive, and likely well worth the travel expenses for the company.
Your logic is sound, just some experience seems to be missing.

> the ‘not serious’ part is how anyone could find that acceptable

I guess you don't have a beeline on what everyone finds acceptable. That's normal, you can only share your perspective not everybody's.

> every scroll operation would be hideously slow

I guess you haven't experienced it because what you describe is not how it works.

The two frames per second is not streaming a 60 frame per second source down to you at two frames per second it's capturing two frames per second from the source and sending them to you because that's what your bandwidth will permit.

> Your ‘streaming solution’ only makes sense if... Highly unlikely.

Only if the goal is a reduction in bandwidth used viewing the page. There are many other goals were streaming the browser makes a helluvalotta sense.

I get you had this focus on bandwidth because i think it's the main obvious focus of this thread but there's an expanded context in which these things operate. I'm sure you'd appreciate that if you'd experience it.
My point is that it is virtually impossible to establish the concept of wrongdoing without the notion of certain innate rights having been violated.

Each person has their belief of what they hold to be human rights. As human beings, it is the duty of each of us to protect what we respectively believe to be the rights of our fellow human beings.
I'm really curious why embedded pays so much lower than CRUD web dev.

My guess is that CRUD product companies have much lower marginal cost of production (just server costs) than hardware so they can afford to pay more.
Frequently, the nail that sticks out sticks out because the Japanese person had the audacity to have a black or korean parent.
Dread is quite the feeling. Almost quite impossible to describe.
No way it has 210 million dollars of cost and r&d. It's just a software center.
I used to not get Ember but of all the frameworks its users love it the most. I remember when Ember was the "cool" framework almost ten years ago. The community has evolved it and kept it relevant which is truly impressive. Ember entered the world at a time Backbone.js was cutting edge. Ember is still relevant and has adopted modern best practices, moved to TypeScript, and most importantly provided an easy upgrade path.

Most companies burn money on a total re-write when old tech gets too hard to support. Ember has never accepted this. I love that!
Hey, sorry for the late comment, just saw your youtube video.

Have you heard anything about the IO port BARs? There's typically a special knock needed on the root complex explaining "I wish to map IO ports to this 64KB MMIO range here instead" needed on MMIO only archs like ARM. GPUs are the least likely to be able to handle a lack of IO port BARs. I've seen that kind of thing personally in MIPS router SoCs.

If you have a back channel to the RPi foundation where we can either ask specific questions for the PCIe root complex IP block that they have an NDA on or get in on their NDA we might be able to make progress on this. It's just really difficult (next to impossible in fact) without their NDAed docs.
Distance learning combined with remote work made "want" become "need" for a lot of people who previously only had one computer at home.
Just a reminder that the journals don't reproduce the research before publishing the article. They only check that somewhat intelligible, somewhat new, somewhat interesting. The more serious the journal, the more strict the checks.

So the numbers are not confirmed by the Lancet, they are just published in the Lancet. It's much better than reading numbers that are published in a blog, but it's not a 100% proof that they are correct.
1T is a huge overcompensation. If you take Ethereum's estimated daily carbon output and divide it by its daily gas units (the unit by which computation is measured) and assign responsiblity that way, minting an Amulet consumes about 20KG CO2 emissions. Transferring one, about half that.
I wonder if Verizon will be selling the standing before the FISC court that it acquired in 2016.
> If you work from 9-6, and commute an hour each way, that basically means you hardly see your kids at all five days out of the week.

So live closer to work. Google pays enough for people to do that. The schools are usually better too.
Scale isn't everything.

If each of 200000 employees used 10 salt packets a week, at a cost of $0.003 per salt packet (from https://www.warehouse115.com/single-serv-flat-salt-packets-p...), then if they cut their salt expenditures in half they'd save:

>>> (200000*10*52*0.003)/2
156000.0

$156,000
I think it’s important to look at the impact on the environment especially when there has been a boom during this pandemic of people getting pets. Chewy kind of blew up and I know of all kinds of people getting boxes once a week with various treats and toys that are all all bound for landfills. Lots of shipping and packing supplies and plastic just because you want your pet to be happy. Consumerism is obviously to blame but pets are cute and people want their “fur babies” to be happy so it’s a pretty easy target market.
IIRC force touch increased the thickness of the iPhone 6s over the iPhone 6
I'm not disagreeing with you or defending Marx, only pointing out a common misconception. Marx's project is frequently misunderstood.

> but the value of all goods derive from their use

That's the definition of value economists adopt today following the marginal revolution, just as artificial as Marx's definition of value, which he qualifies as use-value or exchange-value. Marginalism is a great descriptive explanation for situations like the diamond-water paradox, but it is not really relevant to Marx's prescriptive project, as it concerns only what Marx calls use-value, and Marx's project very much relies on exploring this distinction he identifies between use-value and exchange-value. Whether that exploration is correct or important is another question, but I hate seeing this confusion of definitions and goals crop up all the time. Marx doesn't hold all these obviously stupid straw men views people ascribe to him regarding (use-)value, rather he thinks that the way we conceive of value should be rethought.
So is the issue that beta-amyloid is the smoke, rather than the fire? Or rather that mice aren't humans?
Don’t forget the paths in front of you
We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands.
You gotta amortize that cost over all iphone revenue streams (not just one app)
> New AI tool calculates materials’ stress and strain based on photos

Surely not - more accurately:

New AI tool intuits materials’ stress and strain based on photos

or

New AI tool guesses materials’ stress and strain based on photos

An experienced engineer could probably also guess roughly what shape the stress and strain gradients might take in a shape, but you wouldn't call such a guess 'calculation'.
I'm thinking the current-generation AI (deep CNNs, not symbol-based reasoning) are enough to be paradigm-changers in the future by allowing us to record empiric knowledge.

Computers are good at recording structured knowledge - who owns that, this merch goes where, things that were recorded on stone tablets since times immemorial. But human experts also have a different type of knowledge, empiric, accumulated through years of experience. Artisan crafters "know" how good some material is by sense of touch, smell, sight, without always being able to say WHY or HOW this wood is better than that wood for this table. This is why apprenticeship with a master was a key part of developing an artisan - you'd transfer SOME of this empirical knowledge from a master that took a lifetime to develop it.

The humanity took a huge step forward by moving a lot of empirical knowledge to structured knowledge through the use of models (mathematical?) and books. Instead of an apprentinceship with a mason, a builder now goes to school and learns how to structurally design a building based on construction codes. This allows huge scaling of knowledge, at the expense of missing subtle details which are not modelled (spherical cows in a void, right?).

With this article it just occured to me that Deep Learning may be the tool to record this type of empirical knowledge. And it's going to scale out - unlike the human version never did - because digital copying is cheap, and the knowledge doesn't die with the artisan that developed it - it only gets more accurate. The models we build about reality will get more and more accurate - the spherical cows will grow legs in the air, not in a void.

Humanity will start doing more and more things without understanding why, but because "the computer said so", and things work out when the computer says they will. Black boxes will explode in usage, and God forgive those that may be on the side where The computer says No.
Apple had an issue where they were months late (pre 2009 if i remember) on delivery dates for new products which were orderable, and they've been very serious about not letting that happen since.

I forget what product it was.
I'd argue that mobile-first games can work well.

That said, I've yet to truly enjoy playing a port of a console or PC game on mobile. The control compromises, if nothing else, are just too large.
I don't doubt that you find those beliefs shocking. But why do you see it as a given that they should be changed? You probably hold beliefs that others find shocking and would like to persuade you out of. Are you willing to be changed by them too? Even if "them" is, say, Islamic fundamentalists? Maybe it's OK that different people have different beliefs and you should be no more frustrated in your inability to change them than they are at their inability to change you.
Except neither are out and about with you, or are in your pocket while you’re scrolling insta in your bed. I find it surprising, but then again I don’t know much about fortnite specifically.
Assuming you had a perfect plug-in/extension system where I could write some JavaScript to create my own behaviors, that might do 80% of what people are looking for in the open source question.
I guess I'm the rounding error here then: I like games which I can dip into for twenty minutes and that live in my pocket.
It's a bit more nuanced than that.

Per transaction costs:

They run 15% off sales on itunes gift cards, cc "swipe" charges, costs of credit card fraud (employee costs, management overhead).

Platform costs:

Infrastructure to deal with developers, distribution, tax compliance, refunds, policing local governmental policies, customer service, fraud monitoring, etc etc.
Linux has a similar limitation with FD_SETSIZE and select() --- which I believe comes from the implementation using an array index operation instead of a more complex data structure due to performance reasons.
My LG washing machine does the same. Additionally, Korean convenience stores usually play something like a midi Für Elise when the front door opens as opposed to a bell. Even luggage cars in airports do the same.
You can say the same about TSMC though, yet they don't extort a tax for every transaction done on a chip they manufactured.

Apple handles the second hand market by not allowing one, don't they? I can't give an app I've bought to my friend
I don't disagree with you, but I don't think the responsibility lies primarily with the engineer. Especially in large orgs, you have armies of people whose job is ostensibly to understand the needs of the people their team serves, yet they continually fail to do so.
Google Analytics is arbitrary JS and JS can turn on floc... so using GA is a potential point to add you to floc.

Obviously its probably a small overlap of "doesn't trust floc" and "still trusts GA" but still a Trojan horse.

PS. Wow kudos for being so responsive, especially/despite less than stellar comments regarding your openness about working for G-Ads.
Sanctimony Literature
I hope Dan doesn't get much hassle or negative feedback from this. As a free service it's always going to be all care and no responsibility and as someone from outside of a major timezone, I find it very useful.
Thanks for that; I ended up at "genetic crossover" which explained to me a thing I'd never wrapped my head around before.
The serial number part of this comment is only true if you want to sell a firearm you've made. If you built it for yourself undersized is perfectly fine (at the national level).

You also only have to apply for anything unless you become a manufacturer.
You grossly misunderstand the point I was trying to make. My point is more about who gets to say what's acceptable on the internet.

On the one hand, you have thoughtful, rational nosaltarians such as myself and millions of my minions, err... followers.

On the other hand, you have the craven beasts at Epicurious who want to encourage the consumption of eggs, living suffering plants, and even conscious salt.

Yes. Everything in this universe has at least a little consciousness. Even salt.

I say that the internet should be ruled by those with the most people pointing out problems. In this case the problem is that encouraging the consumption of conscious beings, such as salt, has logical consequences.

You may call my idea mob rule. But I call it the voices of a thousand rational beings simply trying to save one of our own.

Do you see what I'm saying now?

"Mob rule" as it might be called has one victory down, but we won't stop until we reach the logical end.

My moral standards are different and superior to the lax proprietors of Epicurious. Therefore, it would be wrong for me to hold back and let others violate my moral standards. I won't stop until everyone follows my unquestionably superior moral standards.
> The fee that is paid is [...] shared with other departments, giving us the Apple M1 chips in return!

Do you have a source on the claim that profits from the app store explicitly funded development of the m1 chip? That's an interesting claim, and it implies that Apple's hardware division alone is in the red and can't sustain its own r&d.
private entities (work places) do not have any implicit authority but can just fire people for certain speech made i.e. racism etc...
We're still struggling to accurately simulate a C. elegans. We're a little way off simulating 50+ kg of conscious organism.

Not to mention the ethical implications. If we're happy to run "cradle to the grave" tests on a human simulated to that level of accuracy, why not just run them on actual humans bred for research? We can do that right now, far cheaper.

...of course, maybe that just means that we're the disease model...
I’m curious, does Google docs or Microsoft Office 365 block any words or flag content as inappropriate?
This one is incredible! I've minted it so nobody else can grab it. If you have an Ethereum account, let me know your address so I can transfer it to you.
Ok, good point
I am personally itching to get back into the office, at least a couple days a week. But, my team has been super productive throughout the pandemic and as of the last time we all chatted about it, I was really the only one who was concerned about getting back to the office. I do not work for Google, btw. Just experience from another tech company.
Fgc-9 as well
> The fee that is paid is not only for current maintenance and upkeep of the distribution platform (which is their store), but also research, development, security measures

There are lots of updaters for the PC that can run from a web server. You can put the update files on Cloudflare or AWS for redundant, highly scalable distribution. The infrastructure is worth basically $0 and there is nothing complex about an updater, especially for a company that already integrates payment processing on so many other platforms.

Apple makes it sound complex and uses it to justify their toll taking.
Maybe you can enlighten me how to easily add a dependency (the equivalent of "yarn add lodash") in a platform-independent way.
Going to argue against this as a theme. I work for an extremely huge consumer electronics company based in a zip code not far from Google; my org has been remote for over a year and in that time, we’ve had significant productivity. Most people are claiming to be far more productive since many people had 2 hour daily commutes. Also, our company is so secretive that “water color” innovation isn’t particularly a thing. Since we all have private offices in my org due to confidentiality needs, the only real face to face is in meetings. Meeting where we sit around a table and occasionally use a white board. Most people that work for this company aren’t joining because they need an adult kindergarten (and we don’t get free food either, aside from vending machines.) I don’t care about free food or massages; with the appreciation of RSUs, buying that myself is barely a rounding error. I also saved tens of thousands being remote outside of California since I don’t have to pay resident income tax anymore. My house payment is less than half of what I paid for rent and I have about 3000 more square feet of house. My productivity is much higher because my mental health is much better. And my kids are in schools that have been open full time since August. Being “in” Silicon Valley is fun for a minute, but it’s a gimmick for the most part. I’m not having chance encounters with Tim Draper at the Palo Alto Starbucks raising millions over a latte and if I were to start a company, raising SV VC money would be the result of having something worth funding rather than my kid being on the same little league team with some investor’s kid. As far as “Silicon Valley” talent — that’s a myth. Companies didn’t start in SV because of the talent. They started because of that’s where they happened to live. The incentives that made SV great in the 1960s were killed off by politicians choking the golden goose.
Agree with this and I think it's the crucial point. Where I've had the most success with UML-like tools and diagrams is early on in a project since its much faster to rip up and rebuild a few diagrams. The diagrams also help with getting consensus among stakeholders that this direction makes sense and doesn't have any glaring holes.

Later on you can drop the diagrams entirely and perhaps keep them as some onboarding documentation if they're still useful.
And how much do agents make representing talent? Or middle men make to distribute liquor?

You’re ignoring the entire history of distribution companies for software (especially games!) and their historical charges. 30% (1st year only then drops to 15%) is way less than the historical price. The fact that the product experience is so good and seem less makes it SEEM like it should be free, but you’re ignoring the entire history and all the work done to get to this point.
Of course, Amazon is a US company, so with the proper subpoena from a US court AWS technicians will [have to] deliver images of the virtual servers and/or remove them and/or modify them or whatever else is requested, without the right to inform the customer if the subpoena says so.
I had this exact same thought..
This reminds me of the "you guys have phones right?" incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkHAlhCvWg

Obviously, just because younger demographics on average spend more time on mobile devices, that doesn't mean that they consider phones the superior choice for gaming.
Just a bad headline - the specifics (~40% PlayStation and ~10% iOS) is itself interesting and not a priori obvious.

And PC revenues are quite a bit less than iOS revenues (which isn’t very surprising either because gaming PCs are expensive compared to an iPad, but it does somewhat contradict your anecdote).
If they really are more efficient in lower velocity wakes wouldn't it suggest putting them as a second line?

It would probably make a bigger wake and of course would eventually experience diminished returns if you tried just adding more lines.
They probably pay some fixed markup over interchange, e.g. "cost plus" pricing, which means it'll be over 2% for some types of credit cards still. Even Apple is not going to get their processor to take a loss on charging cards. Top rewards cards pay out 2% or more as cash back, so the cost to charge that card is going to be over 2%. Charging a basic checking account debit card, on the other hand, can be as low as 0.05% plus $0.21. For an average card mix, their processing cost averaged over every transaction is probably under 2% however.
What?!????
You're not entirely wrong, but if you make the story unattractive enough, the media will go do a hatchet job on someone else. They've only got so much time and they've got a lot of outrage to drum up^W^W^W^Wengagement metrics to drive, so you jst put enough in to try to make them hit somebody else instead.
Brazilian here, but just a regular guy, I didn't dug deep into this. Anvisa (our health regulatory agency) is well stablished before current president, supposedly independant and more often considered in opposition to current government. I find it unlikely that they are fabricating a rejection and more likely they are being cientific about it.
The democrats learnt a lesson in 2000...
My sense is that on PC people have largely moved on from Fortnite. I'm sure there are still many who play but warzone is the focus these days.
I have a hard time imagining a complete uprooting from your normal routine during a global pandemic would result in a short-term productivity gain that would then decrease as workers become more accustomed to remote work and are less stressed due to the lack of a pandemic moving forward.

That's not to say you don't make good points, I just can't imagine your points outweighing what I perceive as more heavily influencing factors.
It was, and at best it had all the security of a comic book shop. At worst it was an inside job.