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Vertical doesn't unequivocally work better, there's a high external cost.

None of Apple's "stack" is available to other companies because they have no incentive to sell components. The reverse happens, they buy up independent companies (like the touch id folks) and prevent anyone else from using a given piece of tech.

Same problem with Amazon and shipping. Regular schmoes are limited to USPS/Fedex/UPS for shipping in the US. Amazon opting out of the "market" for shipping limits the quality of the shipping services I have access to.

We need to role back to something closer to the 1970s, really. The 90s were ok in tech company terms (at least when the DoJ slowed Microsoft's monopoly) but that was already a full decade into the big-ification of companies.

There's no real alternative but force. You can't evolve from big monopolies into smaller companies, the smaller companies can't even exist in most cases.
> You could buy second hand clothes and electronics if you care that much, but you don't.

This is a thing that people do, so it's not fair to assume that the parson you're having the discussion with is a hypocrite.
Unfortunately Bose HAS to care in order to protect their trademark. That’s literally how trademark works. It has nothing to do with how big they are. Lawyers are 100% going to get involved and any of your bizarre posturing to the contrary is ridiculous.
Is it even feasible to revamp the system efficiently?

We really should commission 2 more analysts to figure this out...
This is an extremely well written article. The concepts of techne and metis, I hope these become part of tech vocabulary and allow us to talk about differences in perspectives on infrastructure and especially infrastructure migrations more effectively without hating each other.
I think that's only the case because this a really insignificant amount of land, nothing is "at-stake", both countries belong to the EU, and most importantly the "real" border is a line on a map that both countries agree on.
Back in high school (which wasn't really all that long ago) just about every computer on the network had really a massive set of content and program restrictions, but it was all very surface level. Very little security if you knew what you were doing, and thankfully the login script that was used for your district-wide account, was run in Powershell.

Not nearly as interesting as OP's hack here, but there was plenty that you could do if you just knew what to use Powershell for. When the machines got upgraded to Windows 10 from 8, every computer you logged into would use the Win10 default background instead of the blank blue one they used previously, and when in my CS class I found it rather distracting. Of course I went over the top, and since you were disallowed from changing the background picture in settings, or with the right click menu, I created a little tool my freshman year to change the value of the my user account's registry key for the background, to whatever else I wanted.

I understand IT's reasoning against giving highschoolers that access (preventing sexually explicit backgrounds), but I just wanted a nice winter landscape, and so when they eventually caught wind they didn't really mind, though they did give me the 'with great power comes great responsibility' speech.

Through my next three years the tool grew to give me command line access, bypass certain parts of the filter, be able to play a bit of music over a pair of headphones, the works, and I was always the cool guy with the one non-standard background in class. It probably looked much more like I was "Hacking the mainframe" than what I was doing in reality, playing MUDs during boring presentations via telnet.
> no matter what, the family fundamentally cares about each other (...) Bob's Burgers is probably one of the few shows that actively bucks this trend.

King Of The Hill comes to mind as well.
Or the causality might be reversed. Neuroticism may attract people to extreme ideologies.
> And people like being rare and unique.

It's amazing how powerful the marketing narrative must be for something extremely normie and prescribed to be viewed instead as "rare and unique".
This is hilarious!! I met almost all the list criteria and turned out ok.
Unfortunately, this is a very misleading explanation.

If you are travelling fast in a straight line, you will observe the clocks in the entire universe around you running slower. Every clock you watch through a telescope on your ship will be running slow. The entire universe around you will be moving in slow motion.

However, everyone else observing you speeding by in your ship will observe your clocks running slow. They will observe you moving in slow motion.

This is an apparent paradox - in fact, it is the quite famous twin paradox.

The resolution is that this only holds for non-accelerated motion. Flying in a loop around the galaxy requires not just high speed but also a constant acceleration, giving you the additional effects of general relativity, which complicates the situation by quite a lot, but resolves the paradox.

However, an inhabitant on a star moving at relativistic speed through the universe still falls under the original case - the inhabitants on the star will see the rest of the universe moving in slow motion, while the rest of the universe will see them also moving in slow motion.
Borders are shifting all the time based on how the water flows:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_border_r...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_river_borders_of_U.S._...
HN, Reddit, friends who share at least a shallow interest and have some patience. I realized my tendency to ramble/gush about novel (to me) ideas in college and actively worked to curtail it to avoid becoming a bore. Finding the right audience is important.

Journaling/blogging is also a good practice. I write for my own sake (I don't share it out, in general) but I write as if for an imagined audience made up of people I know in real life. If the topic is technical, it might be some classmates or colleagues, other topics I have other people in mind.

Occasionally I share out what I've written, but directly not published on a blog. Presently, I'm doing some demos for work training sessions (sort of a rebalancing effort, we have some very skilled and knowledgeable people, but the knowledge isn't evenly distributed and we have some very new people to programming). So some of the things I've written in the past are becoming relevant, I'm retooling what I wrote (actually it's a full-blown rewrite at this point) to target this specific group and make examples more suited to this office than prior offices (programming is programming, except it's not, motivating examples should be relevant to the audience).
As other people wrote already - you should rename the app, or you will get sued for trademark infringement, soon.
Yeah, I read this as "just put it back where it was and we'll all forget it ever happened".
> Benoît Poelvoorde

It looks like a very French first name and a very Dutch last name. Is that common in Belgium? Is there a significant overlap between the linguistic communities of Belgium?
I don't think either of those is necessarily a slam dunk. A lot of consumers really appreciate the non-openness of platforms like iOS when it comes to security, privacy, parental controls, and so on. I know your argument is specifically about the Mac, but on the "openness" spectrum, MacOS sits somewhere between Windows and iOS, so iOS is a helpful reference point for where the Mac could end up.

And as for cost— I don't think that's necessarily strictly worse either. I have a Dell XPS now, and it's.... fine. But relative to my old MBP, the screen is worse, the build quality is worse, the trackpad is worse, the keyboard is worse, the power management is way, way worse. So although there might be slightly more compute here in terms of the raw numbers, a lot of corners had to be cut to make this machine work out, and all things considered, I'm not sure that the market is in a better place when even "premium" non-Apple computers don't have the profit headroom to invest in the little stuff.
Maybe I was the only one confused but "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" means 'It Happened Near Your Home'. The movie was released in English as "Man Bites Dog"
I think the point is that you don't have to parse from strings. Instead, you can parse the atoms of the lists.

I'm large, it comes down to what data type eval takes in. In most languages that have an eval, they take in strings. In lisp, it takes in a list of code.
Aligning DevSecOps and Machine Learning
> My partner also mentioned that she'd like a wedding ring of the same calibre since according to her - diamond ring is how much love / value / worth I hold for her.

Do not marry this person. At the very least, they're bad with money (presuming you/they are not a multimillionaire presently where $40k is just pocket money).
Google buying Doubleclick helped them crush the ad market for publishers.

Number of acquisitions is interesting, though, because you can also phrase it as "number of potentially viable independent companies that no longer exist". We are better off with more independent companies.
https://github.com/chakravala

I doubt anyone will hire me despite my advanced math and programming skills, so I will not provide my email address.
Did you mean the Intel shill site userbenchmark.com?

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-9-5900X/Rating/4087
Serious question: why does anyone but the farmer care? A 2m move in the middle of a field hardly seems to make much of a difference to anyone else.
Here is a fun example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_boundary_dispute
Ex Netflix IT ops boss pocketed $500k+ in bribes
Are there many border wars in the developed world? I can think of Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan but admittedly am not familiar on the subject
If this was in Germany, there would be a fairly high precision map somewhere that records the intended position of each marker stone. This is usually the case for demarcations between private properties. If one of them gets moved, surveyors get sent out to measure the proper location from the map data and surrounding markers. And there's usually a fine for whoever moved such a stone.
I agree with your larger point, but FWIW your example does not match my experience.

I've never had any special difficulties hiring Ruby/Rails devs. Quality is high, availability is reasonable (hiring is always something of a struggle!). My first Rails hire was in 2003 (rails-0.8, IIRC) and my most recent was about 6 months ago.

That's 17 years, and counting.

OTOH, I've never had a good time hiring people to maintain EOLed apps. Ruby or otherwise. "Sustaining Engineering" is a (misnamed) trade that isn't as broadly attractive as new development.
It is still fairly common advice in stand-up to keep the jokes coming every 7-10 seconds.
Now try a "used" diamond.

shudders
> Techne is universal knowledge: things like the boiling point of water, Pythagoras’ theorem, the rule that all RPCs should have deadlines, or that we should probably alert if no instances of our jobs are running.

> metis, is local, specific, and practical. It’s won from experience. It can’t be codified in the same way that techne can. The comparison that Scott gives is between navigation and piloting. Deepwater navigation is a general skill, but a pilot knows a specific port — a ‘local and situated knowledge,’ as Scott puts it, including tides, currents, seasonal changes, shifting sandbars, and wind patterns. A pilot cannot move to another port and expect to have the same level of skill and local knowledge.
It would not. The universe would actually age slower. However, it would also be much shorter along the axis of motion, and the stars in front of you would be much further along in their evolution than the star behind you. So you would perceive any given star to be evolving more slowly, but you would keep encountering older and older stars as you travel.
This is lazy reporting. Where did the money come from to do the acquisitions? Google and Facebook have great monetization by data mining their audiences for advertisers. All they needs is to buy more eyeballs (youtube, whatsapp, instagram, etc).

Amazon is slightly different. They benefit from the creative destruction caused by physical retail purchases migrating to ecommerce and the subsequent value capture by Amazon. Any revenue increase from them is from behavior changes, efficiency gains, and death of inefficient retail.
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Wow. Downvotes. Sure. Here are just a few off the top of my head.

1. Excalidraw doesn't allow you to quickly connect components.

2. It doesn't _always_ allow you to double-click on a component and add a title to it, so you end up using a Text component, which is obviously not what you want because two of the components are not linked.

3. You can't title links/arrows between components.

4. It's cool that they have a components library, but it's barely useful (right now), so I would either make it really good or drop entirely.
What is current state of the art that a user can actually access ? For example, GPT-3 requires open ai beta access.

Is it still GPT-2 ?
Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Just make your points the best that you can, and you'll avoid downvotes about spending half your comment talking about downvotes or attacking "the education and intelligence of the average HN Reader."
Now do Mt. Fuji.
I think Microsoft likes it that way. It's a little thing, but it's just one more little piece that helps them go unmentioned in most of the culture war bomb-throwing about Big Tech.
You could make the same analogy with CGI vs. human-drawn imagery. Yes, you can draw much more precisely, and generates millions of copies of that precision, etc. with CGI. But, does a CGI rendering really have the same 'value' as seeing something drawn entirely by hand? I guess some would say 'yes' -- and I'd direct them to the factory-made diamond counter. Others, though, would value the _human_ involvement (not to discount the programmers who wrote the CGI software) -- even if that includes people toiling in mines.

It's not surprising that the 30 minute lecture didn't sway too many minds -- I think the professor didn't 'get it' in his/her own way. People aren't just buying collections of atoms (though they actually are).
Seems like even PG is succumbing to the hype of NFTs. I don't understand how this will be any better than just doing a donation drive and it could possibly be worse for the planet.
yeah exactly, I would even say it's the only way because otherwise you will eventually need to make money somewhere else and the project will die or at least slow down considerably

I have seen that many times already :-/
>Hot take: philanthropy is a tax avoidance scheme, even if it is helpful to the world. Billionaires and millionaires improve their image by getting to choose where their wealth goes, instead of being required to surrender wealth and have it be used the way that the people want through representative government.

>In reality, you don’t become a billionaire without being ruthless, cut-throat, and a very big asshole.

Very much agree. It's so strange that so many people around the world try and align themselves with billionaires to some degree or another. In some cases, they'll even defend them tooth and nail when met with any critique (like Elon Musk's harem of fanboys).

Idolizing billionaires or trying to align with them makes no sense because there isn't a realistic chance that you'll ever see the level of success they did. Maybe it's fun to fantasize about or gives you something to work towards but there are much more interesting and worthwhile things you can do with your time than endlessly pursue wealth.
Sorry, yes, VA means the Veterans Administration, which supposedly provides healthcare and benefits to active and former military.
Really? What about a serial killer that killed 50 kids?
I have a friend who grew up in France (well, except for her kitchen which was in Belgium); she went to school in Belgium, crossing the border (which in those days had a gate) twice each day.

I just imagine the guards opening the gate for a little girl with a school satchel. The bollards which held the gate are still there.
I think it is only true because so many insist it is true. Same reason python is "easy for beginners.". So much propaganda insists it that folks believe it must be so.

Note, my hypothesis is essentially any language that folks insisted is easy for beginners could be easier. There is a certain difficulty that comes from thinking something must be difficult.
Disappointingly, neither that article or the parent about the Chinese Long March rocket make it clear how planned or unplanned this was.

Falcon 9 rockets usually land or attempt to, so that was a failure or malfunction, that left it out of control in a short-term orbit?

And in the Chinese one? Was this outcome expected or was it due to a failure to de-orbit in a controlled way?
Pensioners once produced what the pensioners of their generation consumed.

It's the same logic I offer to retirees+parents, who grump over having to support a school system.
Tell them that the software isn’t working as expected and you are experiencing major performance problem via live chat might be the best way to do it.
I learned from this interview that The Simpsons are what popularized the word "meh." I had no idea that it was not a common word before this.
> I have long suspected that masking is a political identity symbol

What do you mean, people fancy looking like a surgeon?
People become surprised when they see something different from the norm. If they are surprised, it tells you that the norm is different.

And look at that, the comment in question is now dead. That’s the system working.
Well, it uses FORTRAN code, machine-translated into C.

Which is "C code" but not really C code.
For “greatest comment” I was thinking of cmdrtaco’s comment about the iPod, but I guess that was slashdot.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

HN is famous for knee-jerk dismissals of tech and companies that then go on to become wildly successful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270689

Mostly HN comments about this kind of thing should be ignored. It’s easy to be critical and negative about anything new, it’s a lot harder to be right.
It's likely that surveys reference positions from that stone. No one may care now, but a few years down the line if someone is trying to survey the path for a rail project, power line, etc, that could lead to problems.
Maximising utilisation usually means an increase in latency. You don't want your ambulances or fire fighters at high utilisation.
> However, my feeling is I don't trust this 100%, and for my SO having a "real diamond" meant a lot. For me, in this case, the need to get a "real diamond" for my SO trumped my ethical stance on where the diamond was sourced.

Lab grown diamonds are real diamonds. There is a simple, easy, and cost-effective solution to the problem you seem to have skipped over here.
When I read the line about the patient offering to pay the ransom in full to stop his information from being shared, the "Shut Up and Dance" ransom episode from Black Mirror jumped out in my mind.
> All the talk of breakups and “big is bad” ignores the fact that vertical works better.

That's not even close to being universally true, and good/bad are in the eye of the beholder. Is it better or more efficient for the people who assemble the phones? Is it better or more efficient for the retail employees making minimum wage? Is it better or more efficient for app developers who lose 30% of their revenue to private taxation, or the businesses that never reached their potential because a BigTechCo launched a competing product at a loss?

> It won’t however, emerge if we roll the clock back to the late 90’s by force.

It might, but I can absolutely, guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt that we don't get a more democratic solution if we leave the current stakeholders in their current positions of immense power.
Sure Japan has not collapsed, the US wouldnt either however,

A) Japan's pension, ss, medical liabilities per person are much smaller than what the US has created.

B) I wouldnt call the Japanese economy a success story over the last 20 years. They are just sliding by
You can say the same thing about fast technology. There are mountains of discarded gadgets from just last year filled with toxic materials that first had to be mined from the Earth, and now are polluting the Earth.
thanks, appreciate the reply and the shop talk about the 'science' of community/modding etc ;)
Bizarre posturing? That’s a strange choice of words. I didn’t say lawyers wouldn’t get involved, but at any rate, the chance isn’t 100%. I said OP is not likely to be sued.
It’s a relatively modest win versus H.265 unless you’re willing to substantially sacrifice quality and that has to be balanced against the extra CPU time and storage.

YouTube uses so much bandwidth that this is still measured in millions of dollars but it’s really worth remembering that “at scale” to them is beyond what almost anyone else hits.
> I'd love to see a language where manipulating the language is the core strength,

This is the appeal of Julia, where the community uses macros to do things like auto-differentiation (which itself feeds into modeling engines), create domain-specific languages, and to customize compiler behavior (auto-vectorization, target GPU compute shaders).
>does your son use Quake

I lost it.
Wow, as a US citizen looking at the France/Belgium border [0] I can’t imagine what it’d be like for a disagreement with your next door neighbor to become an international incident. I suppose it’s probably just no big deal.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/cPbAY3DxQNhUy2SZ9
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Ah, good times. Our lab ran sshd on each workstation, so I launched cli processes on every system, at daytime, with dozens of students still working on their project. I thought running as "nice -n 19" would be safe.

Wrong. My program ran out of memory, systems started thrashing, desktops froze up. Confused students, panicking about unsaved changes, swearing, rebooting. Meanwhile I was frantically trying to kill my processes, but even sshd became unresponsive so I couldn't stop the madness. They never found out it was me :)
Sounds like it was on purpose, not an accident, since the stone marker of the border was always in his tractor's path.
Shush SSH, and Talk to Your Pi Instead
Trespass is usually a civil matter and councils only deal with planning issues (at least here in the UK so I imagine also in Australia). So even if the land was the council's they could not do more than involving lawyers and going to court. They might have rightly concluded that it was not worth it for them to spend money on an useless piece of land and decided to sold it instead since there was obviously demand for it.
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How many companies were started over the last 20 years where the expressed goal, the "win condition" in the founders minds, was a buyout?

The idea of building something neat is a lot more attractive than running a business that sells the neat thing to customers. The people who want to run businesses are in the lovely position (for them) of having more fresh, good ideas offered to them than they can review, much less use.