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Big Tech got so big because digital technology is different from preceding industries in that increasing (not decreasing) returns to scale prevail. In particular, in software where marginal costs are near 0. It's a different ballgame. I think regulators have figured this out but for the most part it appears that they don't know how to act upon it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Returns_to_scale
My mom was reluctant to get me a Social Security card because she thought it would increase my risk of being drafted. (In the U.S., birth records are handled at the state level, or for some purposes county level, while the military draft is handled at the federal level.) Of course, if I hadn't had one, there are tons of things that I wouldn't have been able to do (like official employment, banking, and credit, to start with).

Military conscription is a huge impetus for population registration and tracking. In the U.S. there hasn't been conscription since before I was born, but there's still an agency that notionally registers military-aged men and their whereabouts, with intermittent halfheartedness and minimal enforcement. (My recollection is that all of the enforcement actions for the past few decades have been against men who wrote open letters refusing to register, or something, as opposed to those who simply forgot or declined to register.)

James Scott has written extensively about how many people in history didn't want to be tracked by (or "legible" to) the state, because this would subject them to conscription and taxation. The idea that conscription or taxation are good and that you should want to be subject to them (either because of a theory of political legitimacy or because of benefits that they will personally bring you or your neighbors) is kind of a historical anomaly, although very widespread today.

I do think the idea that you would be better off if you and the state didn't interact than if you did feels most plausible in a rural farming environment, and least plausible in a city in an industrialized society -- not that many people still don't wish to be, or think about being, free of the state, but that it's obviously taken up such an enormous role in life that it feels like a huge sacrifice to be totally invisible to it. A big trend over time all around the world, especially following the industrial revolution, has been higher taxes and more government services. Even if you don't personally feel this was a good trade-off, a whole lot of parts of life would "break" for you if you were outside of it.
No, he meant that women create a narrative that makes them look good in divorces that is often the opposite of the facts.

So women will say (and subconsciously think and believe) that breaking up the family is good for the children, when nobody else would agree, so that her decision looks good.

Hence the 50% divorce rate with 70% of those initiated by women - they set aside the effects on children.

“I Put The Kids First.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSez-PNiMJM

You can read a similar example in this quote by Hillary Clinton:

https://therationalmale.com/2015/09/02/solipsism-i/

Obviously the primary victims of war are the combatants, mostly men, but that doesn't fit her narrative, so she makes up nonsense and no doubt believes it, even though she has legal training.
> If a company is able to print unlimited cash, they can use the revenue on unlimited ill-advised acquisitions, and do unbounded damage to the economy.

At some point, they're still bound by what lenders will give them or how much investors will buy their stock for.

But apply the same to a government that can print unlimited cash..

(We may quibble over "unlimited" but it has been US Fed policy for decades and appears to be accelerating now.)
Just went through their onboarding experience. It is amazing! Well done.
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> Also marriage between members of different religions is not possible.

You can. But it's hard. So basically the main requirement of marriage is it must be performed in a religious ceremony. You cannot have a pure civil marriage in Indonesia. So the thing is.... the clerics, the priests are not fond of mixed-marriages. But there are marriages between Buddhist and Catholic, Christian and Catholic, Muslim and Christian. I'm an Indonesian.

Also, there is a loop-hole. You get married overseas and register it in an Indonesian embassy.
I find temptation passes within five-ish minutes, and if I can circumvent that temptation for the minimum period of time I'm clear of acting on the temptation.

"Barrier to access" has been a successful means of avoidance for me.
If you look at all the listed cycles, their total length is 2,664,154 or only about 0.06% of all the 32 bit integers. So 99.94% of all the integers first follow some linear path before eventually entering into one of the cycles. Now depending on the exact structure of the graph - are there a few long paths or are there many short paths entering into the cycles and into a cycle of which length do the different paths enter - the average sequence length until the first repetition across all starting points can be very different including longer than the longest cycle in case there are relatively few but long paths entering into the cycles.
My wife's grandfather didn't know his birthday.
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> It can take years to be an overnight success but they seem to have lost that vision.

Per other commenters on HN over the years, the Goog has a culture where you can only get promoted if you launch a product. If that is true, then the point of Stadia wasn't success for Big-G, it was a promotion (or a set of them) for some people. Retiring Stadia quickly then makes sense, as it saves money to get rid of the promotion vehicle quickly.
> not as much the people that they give money to.

The soldiers get basically no money. They risk their lives carrying around missiles that cost 5x their salary.

You’re saying we shouldn’t take it up with the tech companies and military tech vendors, which people here might actually have influence with.
Or buy an antique and have it resized. You might actually get value and history with it. Imagine jewelry that appreciates in value rather than loses two thirds as soon as you leave the shop.
This isn't a david vs goliath this is a clear violation of trademark law and other laws and borderline illegal.

They reverse engineer a protocol, built an app for it, bought a domain with a single character (s -> z) difference (cyber-squatting) and are charging for it.
"Premature optimization is considered harmful", therefore, don't fix inefficient designs as long as they technically work.
SMD is less tedious when you know what you're doing.

Though hole has... well... holes. It requires tediously placing all your stuff through those holes.

SMD on the other hand, can be solder-pasted and then baked with a $20 skillet + hot air gun to finish off the last bits. The solder has surface tension and naturally "pulls" pieces into place.

SMD is slightly more expensive than a soldering iron: you still need the soldering iron for some bits. And solder paste goes bad over time, and flux to keep stuff clean. You'll also need more expensive PCBs with a solder mask if you want to keep things easiest (but its really not that much more expensive: most costs seem to be shipping costs these days).

So you get your skillet (or toaster oven), a hot air gun, soldering iron, solder wire, solder paste, and finally flux... and you're pretty much set.

Maybe get some "desoldering" pump and "desoldering braid", in case you need to rework some stuff. But the skillet + hot air gun works pretty well.

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Work with larger 0805 resistors/capacitors. They look small at first, but you can probably work at that level even without tweezers. More skilled people can work with 0402 and smaller pieces (though that's entering tweezer-only territory)

If 0805 is too small, there are larger pieces available like 1206. But I personally think 0805 sufficiently large for beginners to work with.

EDIT: I'm talking about American codes. 0805 American is equivalent to 2012 European.
Such an improvement over fishbricks:

> Birdseye developed a novel freezing technique...but when used on fish, the method created large blocks of intermingled fillets that, when pried apart, tore into “mangled, unappetizing chunks” .... The fishing industry tried selling the blocks whole, as fishbricks. These were packaged like blocks of ice cream, with the idea that a housewife could chop off however much fish she wanted that day.

What a world.
Super excited for what eBPF brings to the table, and how Pixie makes it accessible. It is empowering being able to have a centralized DevOps/SRE/Security team gain insights across all their applications running on Containers without needing to add any custom instrumentation.
I don't think "perpetual growth," is really what people complain about. what they really mean is that they want to shortchange everyone who does not already have housing.

There are a finite number of people with finite needs. Growing the housing stock to house this finite number of people is not "perpetual growth" and it's downright offensive to say that when we camps of homeless people, camps of people in RVs without other housing, camps of people in their cars, people working full time but only able to afford overcrowded housing, and at the same time enormous wealth within miles.

A society that allows such destitution while others have enormous wealth is not one that is running well. It shortchanges us all, economically.
I did mention maven.

The advantage that Javascript has over Java in this respect is that in Javascript module A can import version B.1 of module B and module C can import version B.2 of module B and it works almost always.

Contrast that to the Guava - Hadoop incompatiblity in which a tiny change to Guava that broke HDFS in an racy way got Hadoop stuck at Guava 13 so you have the choice of going with G13 forever, ditching Hadoop, or ditching Guava.

I think that one is the worst diamond dependency in Java ever, but it is one of the scaling problems that maven has as the number of imports goes up, it might not be the worst one limiting what you can do with maven. (e.g. if you have a platoon of developers and a corresponding number of projects you might be able to complete a build that downloads SNAPSHOT(s) about 0.5 of the time)
Cloud gaming is not a business venture, it's industry conspiracy to distort the market and capture exaggerated profits by raping the customer and calling it love.

I have been following the technologies (direct frame buffer capture and inline encode) for a long time because they are also the enabling technologies for high performance locally clustered visualization.

The features were at one point completely unrestricted in the driver, then one day cloud gaming was the next big thing and you had to buy a $10,000 GPU or be Steam to access those APIs.

If you are interested in remote collaboration or scalable visualization you'll just have to hold your breath and wait to see if nVidia and others can strong arm children into economic exploitation, because the technologies are currently being held hostile while industry works through various lubrication formulations for the slope they intend to shove us down.
One day, I hope radios / networking off, telemetry off and logs off and still as functional as possible with those options off will all be legally mandatory options in any device that can do any of those things.
Yeah, I agree. I'd go even further and say that although the tech conversations on HN are substantive, the vast majority of non-tech conversations are devoid of social awareness (in the same way as a bunch of developers who don't get out much). For example, sometimes people here don't register deference as a prosocial aspect of cooperation. When you say "I'm no expert, but..." on HN, people take it literally.

If you want to get a ring for your significant other, the whole point is to buy something unnecessary as a symbol of the organic constance of your love. Nobody needs a diamond ring. If you tell a woman that her diamond came from a lab, you should accompany that fact with a better narrative than "this was the most economical rock available within your preference constraints."

She wants to love her ring, so give her a reason. Tell her that you wanted to buy her something big without feeling like it was an extravagant use of your shared nest egg. Explain why gem clarity is so important to you, because your vision of the future as a couple is unmarred by doubt. Talk about how lab-grown gems are a more ethical trade and symbolize a desire to avoid unnecessary conflict in your relationship. Remind her that even a diamond is not forever, so if she wants another ring next year you'd be happy to propose again with a superior gem.
Old Gold.
This is what I grew up imagining what all hackers are like.
I never noticed that this comment, one of the best known of HN, is flagged.
All of them, and since the start of this. I don't know where you're getting your data and why you've decided April numbers are a good measure of how states have done overall. Infection rate is less relevant than deaths anyway. If people are getting infected and recovering it's not really an issue.

NYC(not state) tops the charts for deaths per 100k. Notice how low FL is?

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_deathsper100...

What you can easily notice is that strict lockdown measures don't seem to make any difference at all.
The more I think of it, the more I realize, biology is very much unlike the market in such analogies.

In a way, the market is biology flipped on its side, like a transposed matrix - where in nature, life forms mostly cooperate within their species (or at least ignore each other) and prey on other species, on the market, companies of the same type fight it out, while ignoring or cooperating with companies of different types.

But I think the main difference is scale. The area of influence of a life form - where they live, hunt, reproduce - is very limited. Same is true with companies serving local markets. A local glass factory. A corner market. You say:

> Global highly efficient markets are like a polished flat globe with a uniform climate everywhere.

But it's not just a flat globe. It's a globe with a surface of couple dozen square kilometers! It's literally a single niche. Not even that - it's a cage. Imagine a zoo that decided to put all its animals in a single, large cage. You won't have to wait much before there's only one big animal standing (and a bunch of insects scattering about).

On a more general note: biology is a good example that you can make a complex and robust system by giving imperfectly-self-reproducing agents a lot of space to play in, and then throwing calamities at them to keep things interesting. But I honestly don't like using it as a recipe for designing systems, because of all the waste that's involved. Waste of effort, waste of resources, waste of life. I feel we should avoid this kind of hard self-regulation whenever we can.
Once done with whatever task requires it, do you then immediately revoke access by that key?

Having two keys with the same access means you still have a key on that questionable system that can do the same things, and exactly the same security concerns.
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First, the music itself wasn't written by me, but by Rob Miles[1]. So I had a version in C available. I then iteratively transformed the code into simpler and simpler expressions, and finally into a simulated assembly language, written as C macros[2]. Only the final step, initializing peripherals, stetting up interrupt handlers, etc was done with the actual chips. Of course, I made some erros with the before mentioned C macros, so some final debugging was trial-and-error. Later on I also used simulators, but they don't support all the necessary features of the MCUs, or were outright broken[3] (patches now upstream).

[1]: http://txti.es/bitshiftvariationsincminor

[2]: https://git.gir.st/Chiptunes-pms150c.git/blob/f1b013452400b0...

[3]: https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/patches/379/
We're at the start of an interesting period in human history.

Millennials have grown up with all sorts of petrochemicals surrounding them in a way not previously seen. We realized BPA was bad, but it's still around and the replacements are mostly just untested and unknown, bit actually safe. There are hundreds of different chemicals from agricultural or industrial use in our water supply, as are a number of heavy metals, pharmaceutical drugs, etc.

Add in air pollution, diets high in sugar and with coloring, emulsifiers, preservatives. Our gut microbiomes are a mess, we've got endocrine disruptors in our food and water, we're stressed out and isolated.

It all adds up to a population that's going to have formerly rare diseases and conditions tied to inflammation, autoimmune or similar issues being far more common
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If there's something you feel you can do, it'd be good, you absolutely should investigate that path. If it turns out it didn't work out, someone stomped on it or you get pulled elsewhere, it wasn't meant to be. You feeling that goal within your grasp, is anyways valuable as learning exercise.

No matter your efforts, there's a time for everything.
Didn't ice cubes made from icebergs command a premium price once? Don't know if it was deserved.
this team also has had at least one example of unilateral non-open source decisionmaking https://www.vice.com/en/article/pawnwv/open-source-devs-reve...
Where is the company incorporated? In most countries, companies act for profits first. Especially if you raise funding from a few selected ones instead of the wider community.

This statement reads weird too

> We don’t believe in placing artificial constraints on the tool or having functionality behind a paywall. In order to support the open source project, we’ll be building supplemental products and services. This aligns our incentives with the community and our open source users, with a focus on interoperability, performance, and usability.

Supplemental products and services on top of open source projects often require (down the line) the open source project to adapt because it might hurt the bottom line of these supplemental products and services. Since there is no guarantee this won't happen, if the stake is between the company surviving or a feature being open-source vs "supplemental", the people working at the company might have to chose the option against the wishes of their open source users. I don't see how creating a for-profit company is at all in alignment with open source users. Better would have been a Co-op, a non-profit, OpenCollective, or leverage an existing entity like the Linux foundation, that can actually guarantee it for you in contracts and laws.
I can’t really relate your first paragraph to your second, at least by the taxonomy in the article which has some consistent structured systems as well as inconsistent systems.

I also disagree that unstructured is the future. I think most computations actually are structured. Otherwise sql queries wouldn’t be so useful. I think a lot of processes basically start with a big bag of foos and end up with a big bag of roughly corresponding bars, so if one foo changes then there is only a localised change to the output. That can be encoded with an unstructured system but I find they are better for cases where outputs are more scalar and the processes between inputs and outputs are myriad. While you can do structured-like things in an unstructured system, you lose out on a lot of the advantages of that structure.
I only know Lisp at a really basic introductory level, but knowing a different homoiconic language my understanding was that "macros" aren't even actually a meta-level thing in these - it's just the language being able to manipulate itself. Using it like this just gets called "meta-level" or "macros" to keep a cleaner separation for developers to reason about.
https://archive.is/WmkqB
That would actually benefit the state (financially anyway) as it could just pocket the extra income.

But afaik in Germany if you’re officially non-religious, or your declared religion is not party to the church tax system, you just don’t get taxed.
Even that level is extremely rare and generally only offered by the US-based giants.
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yes and there is also often departmental budget arb going on here

Devs in engineering org now have to spend more time on self-service portals & chasing tickets because the manager of the infrastructure org laid off a bunch of sysadmins.

I once worked at a bank where even replacing a physical disk in a US datacenter involved a ticketing system which dispatched tickets to India.
The remote guys would then, presumably, raise some sort of internal ticket so the guy physically in US could you know.. replace a bad disk.

Turnaround on bad disk swaps went from hours to weeks. As the hardware aged, we started to have enough disk failures pile up on RAID arrays that data losses occurred.

Somewhere someone in infra cut his budget though!
When people think flying cars, they don't think of something without wheels that can only land in certain spots that requires years of training to operate that is significantly expensive to be outside of the reach of 99%.

They think of the car that anyone of legal driving age with a reasonable amount of money that anyone with some income can purchase.

No, helicopters are not flying cars. And no, dishwashers aren't what people would think of when they think of robots. Something that has a microprocessor in it isn't automatically a robot.
> There are hundreds of open source companies - many making gobs of money.

[citation needed]

It seems there may be many open source companies with tons of users, but they seem to struggle with monetization and turning those users into paying users.

Redhat which used to be the epitome of a company making money from open source got acquired by IBM.

A lot of other open source companies are switching to non-open source licenses.
How does it compare to NodeMCU? I've tried to write some code to read I²C sensors and publish data via MQTT using Node MCU, but the docs and the examples are outdated. I've wasted time, only to find out that it's more productive to read the function prototypes. In the end I went with Tasmota, flash the appropriate image, setup wifi, the MQTT endpoint and you're done. The ESP32 version also has a Python like embedded language called Berry.

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Berry/
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I think the Chandy-Lamport snapshot algorithm tries to do something like this for all distributed systems (in their model, and it tries to get any consistent snapshot, not allowing you to specify the "time"); not sure if it's actually useful IRL though
>Beef also primarily produces methane, so I'm not sure if the co2 impact of beef is the proportional impact in methane or actual co2. Methane has a much shorter term. impact vs co2.

It is most certainly accounted for. The correct unit is CO2-equivalent and the time horizon commonly used is 100 years.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential