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What? IME removing complexity removes costs. That's a good choice. I can't think of a case where it didn't happen. Of course this only works for the removable complexity, which is discovered through analysis (possibly iterative/recursive)
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I'm a bit confused, is this an argument against competition or against monopoly?
The commonly cited study (that of course nobody reads) from the Governors Highway Safety Association showed that if you get hit by a truck or SUV you have a higher chance of dying. They also found that if you adjust for how many of each are on the road, you are 15% more likely to be hit by the driver of a car.

Trucks and SUVs are on average newer than cars and at a higher price point, which means more newer safety features like object detection and driver warnings. I also suspect the feeling of mass in driving a larger vehicle makes you take driving more seriously.
In the US perhaps but not so in the EU.
Thank you for this! So much UFO spam here, I knew there had to be money behind it, but I didn't know Bigelow's role.
The advisory speed limit on the Autobahn in Germany is 130 km/h = 80 mph. If you drive 55 mph (90 km/h) on an unrestricted or 130 km/h section during your driving test, you will fail.
A perhaps relevant anecdote: I interviewed at Twitch many years back and it happened to be on Halloween. My recruiter was dressed up as some league of legends character - perhaps Ahri (she had a tail and animal ears). It was not strictly western business casual but clearly it was not notably outside Twitch’s cultural norms.
So, judging by this guy's Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Ceg%C5%82owski), it's somewhat obvious he's a stooge. But I don't think his point is terrible - in fact, I rather agree with its general strokes. Maybe that says something about me?
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I'm extremely skeptical of these numbers. I've seen reports as low as 27% effective for first shot of Pfiser and as high as 95%.

I'm still getting my first one this weekend but I'm not gonna assume I'm really much safer than I was before.
Facebook's focus on unsupervised machine learning is a huge plus for under-resourced languages. They had a similar article for unsupervised machine translation[1] before, and I can see how it'll open doors for many African languages.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2018/08/31/ai-research/unsupervis...
Up until the time industrial revolution really started to get going, it was true. If you look at the literature, poetry or philosophy of most any culture before 1880s it’s easy to see an unwavering belief of the invincibility of Nature against mankind. Humans have always been able to alter nature, but their ability to alter Nature with the capital N is a very new thing on a geological time scale.
Thinking about it more - it is most likely just very lonely men that is seeking a connection to an attractive women -
It reminds of Japan and their hostess clubs - no sex just companionship and chatting for an hour at a price.
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Large, durable plastic use is less of a concern, if I understand correctly. Plastic use around food (and packaging in general), for instance, has a lifespan of approximately 6 months. Compare to the 13 years for plastics used by the automotive industry.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782

There's TONS of packaging that could be replaced by other materials -- particularly materials that can non-toxically decompose in the environment in a reasonable time frame.
> What are some top experiences available to Android which aren't available to iOS customers?

The Humble Bundle app allows you to install Android games you bought through humble bundles onto your Android phone. This allows you to buy bundles of games from developers at your own desired purchase price and give an amount of that purchase you choose to some charities of your choice.

It is, quite literally, used as another store and has the ability to install applications.

Many of the games I've gotten through that are also available on iOS, but you're unable to get iOS versions from this because there's no way to install that app nor a way for it to install other applications if you did, currently.

At least some of those developers would be happy to offer iOS versions as a bundle, or even give you access to choose iOS or Android in the same bundle, but there's no way to legitimately deliver these games to those customers.
There is an issue with that just like with programming languages. Do we want to standardize on one programming language for all use cases? Because they have different expressiveness and core concepts, not all programming languages are the best fit for all situations (consider assembly versus TensorFlow). Similarly, different human languages have different core concepts, and express them differently (for example, English has a stronger emphasis on time branches, with all the different tenses, while Korean has a stronger emphasis on relations, with all the very specific words for different members of the family and politeness levels). If they are replaced with one language, that expressiveness would be lost.
Check out ETJ English Channel and it's focusing on British English pronunciation:

https://youtube.com/c/ETJEnglish
I agree with the sentiment you're getting at about nostalgia for the past sometimes ignores the homogeneity of the people using those systems and how that reduced complexity. I do think there's an argument there that needs to be explored further to identify what is actually simple and hard/complex in computing.

However, I think this point about how JB specifically would make one with any type of character is not the best direction for exploring that. He's made games and his own presentation software (Used in the presentation linked above) which is able to do that. I doubt he would classify that as one of the actually hard aspects of computing.
It is up to Amazon, right? Don't they own Twitch?
To be fair this is what I would do if I wanted to get a good wage for working on Tesla Autonomous vehicles - buy a Tesla stick a LiDAR on the roof rack and show Elon what the technology can do.

I'm not seriously saying this is some ambitious startup instead of Tesla, but it would be interesting.
We definitely don't live in a world that transcended mass media.

We live in a world of mass recommender systems. That can be tweaked any way that those programming them want and lead to massive knock-on consequences on the rest of culture and encodes those choices in the minds of creators and consumers alike.

Trump was not that far from the elite status-quo. He had 50% of the political elite on his side, more or less, and didn't do much against finance and polite society itself. Not even a fraction of what could have been used to stop him actually was used to stop him.
Here in California, these items have a E-waste fee you pay in the initial purchase. It's supposed to cover the disposal of the item once it's broken/discarded. I have no idea how many people actually dispose of them correctly. Where I work, we work with a company who retrieves these items. Once again, I have no idea what happens after they pick up the devices...
Giving a new, dystopian meaning to User Agent.
The Nissan Leaf has been able to do it for a while https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/you-can-power-your...
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Right, I think Ponzi is a more accurate potential criticism of crypto
That will happen if society at large does not care about pornographic content. Which is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Rubber is a plastic. As for polyester, what do you think PET plastic is?

I will add that a weathered component of tire rubber has recently been identified as causing mass death of salmon when it washes off into streams.
It does pay the bills when it comes in the form of bits donations and subscriptions.
Is the gender gap believed to be due to sexist hiring? I had thought getting acceptance letters and job offers was the relatively easy (and maybe even privileged) part, but then women have to deal with harassment, coworkers who would rather be romantic interests than collaborators, or just having to prove themselves more frequently and against a higher bar than the comparable men, so they're more likely to self-select out more quickly than men do.
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>The programmer would have had to miss something architecturally up front for that to be the case. It happens, but it's not that common.

It is very, very common indeed. Seldom is software created with all the requirements and complexities of the problem known upfront. In fact, very often the process of development of the software itself reveals all the different ways in which the original specifications were imprecise and not completely thought through. And new features and requirements get added onto later all the time.

Software is created in an iterative process of feedback and development. At each stage, the programmers takes the shortest, most straightforward approach to solve the problem. When the programmers are not careful (or just lazy) they inadvertently add dependencies that shouldn't exist and make the whole thing more complex. Of course, any single infraction seems innocent enough, but eventually you almost always end up with software that is much more complex than it needs to be.

Here is a talk on how software is too complex all the way from 2006. I am more than confident that the problem has only gotten worse in last 15 years.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v1-pages-441-450....
So, uh, who owns the libera.chat domain name again?
It's worse than that. It's showing up in rain and snow, and our water supply because most filtration systems don't catch micro/nanoplastics. It's in our bodies.

I think we will eventually find it's also largely responsible for the tremendous drop off in birth rates and reproductive health that the world has been experiencing the last 10+ years and possibly other neurological and "brain" issues that have increased in frequency. Infertility of people in their reproductive prime is at an all-time high. We already know BPA has a lot of these side effects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/17/micropla...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/us-birth-and-fertility-rates...
I have never understood the demand for "right to repair" laws any ways. Don't you know the terms of repair before you buy the device ? Simply don't buy an iphone if you want to repair it yourself. If there is enough market for repairable devices someone will make them eventually otherwise you are only imposing a huge compliance cost on everyone else and slow down innovation for many companies.
You make a good point, I guess it’s not an easy one liner!
What exactly is "horrifying" to you about not wanting to live in a crime-ridden community?
Which isn’t too different from tesla for comparison. It only sells you the most basic version and you have to pay for everything else
"Passenger cars and light trucks (vans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles) accounted for 46.1% and 39.1%, respectively, of the 4875 deaths, with the remainder split among motorcycles, buses, and heavy trucks."

If you count crossovers as cars, trucks make up like 35% of auto sales and account for 39% of pedestrian deaths.

There is nothing to be concerned about.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276506/change-in-us-car-...
Rather than hit-and-run, it may be useful to propose an alternative, so I can examine my position and correct if necessary. Thanks.
...and there are others that would buy BTC if it was the only option but would be happy with ETH given that it exists. With those people buying / minting X instead of Y (but would use Y if X didn't exist), the amount of digital coins increased out of thin air just like that! Without any control mechanism from the bitcoin protocol (an unsolved / unsolvable(?) problem).

So the fact that the people like you say exists does not prevent the existence of the people that I am talking about.

And if the secure, easy to use, non-wasteful, programmable and distributed ledger problem is solved once then ALL coins after that become the same. In that environment "people who would buy ETH, but never BTC" will not make any sense.
No, it doesn't, and no, it isn't. As much as some people like to pretend it doesn't exist, accidental complexity is a thing, and reducing it is part of our job. Also, there are ways of removing complexity of processes before they are turned into software, but that requires talking with people and agreeing. Not every program has to do everything.
I don't read it as denigrating hobbyists. Hobbies are great.

I think the point is that, if you're professionally developing software that interfaces with humans, accessibility is part of your job.
We recycle less than 10% of our plastic. And of that, very little goes back to producing the same products -- plastic is typically degraded when recycled and converted from food packaging down into benches or clothing, both of which will shed microplastics into the environment before being sent to the landfill.

Plastic recycling is not an eternal loop like metal recycling can be. It's almost entirely downcycling when it happens at all.
upvote and a giant thanks!

this video should be mandatory in every school on the Planet.
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I would like to see "feature phones" return, not to replace, as a privacy-friendly alternative to, "smartphones", but this time with Lua instead of Java.
Right; but they've been evolving rapidly the entire time. So they're still doing what they've always done. If the environment is changing, and people are changing, and that's causing us to be vulnerable to conditions we weren't previously vulnerable to, then that's a problem caused by people changing. These stories look for a villain, and seem to end up villainizing the fungus, which is good for sensationalism but not very useful for understanding what is actually happening.
Agree that a case by case analysis is appropriate, but I don’t really see any world where the cost/benefit analysis of plastic and water would be anywhere near the same ballpark
To use the same argument as "don't use iOS"...simply don't use the alternate app store.

I can't yet convince myself that "don't use iOS" is a valid argument while "don't use a different app store" is not.
That brings back fond memories. I used to package up a PHP installer (and a MySQL one) for macOS for many years, back when OS X was still new and it was a bit of work to build various UNIX open source projects from source.

My day job was Solaris/Linux work so I was used to it and I wanted PHP on my Mac, so I built the installer for myself and also put it on my website, where more and more people downloaded it from over the years.

I haven't used PHP in more than ten years and only recently started dabbling with web development again for fun. I am very happy with TypeScript + React on the client side and Python or Swift on the server side.
There are as many Rule 34 categories as humanity has dreams, and no one has solved that problem at humankind scale.

> I really don't get it. What is the joy

You're asking why one specific instance of Rule 34 exists. It's because all instances of Rule 34 exist, and this one just happens to have become popular on Twitch. Rule 34, while distressing, is unfortunately a very real aspect of the human race at scale; it essentially says that if you can imagine something, it will be found erotic by someone, no matter how much it is or isn't erotic to you. I think it was first invented in the time of Usenet, when people would create ever-more-specific newsgroup hierarchies, but I'm honestly not sure.

When we democratized content creation, we made it possible for niche fetishes to be discoverable, to form communities, and to financially support content creators. For example, "1800s-era bathing costumes" is absolutely a niche that some subset of humanity will pay money to see more of. There are much more specific, weird, and uncomfortable niches. (We're lucky that this one is so boring and dull, relatively speaking, because it's possible to discuss it without squick.)

It's not about "getting" why it's erotic to some and not others. That's between you and your own erotic desires or lack thereof for any given content. It's about the greater question of how and when society will come to terms with erotic content appearing in "general content" pools on platforms that co-mingle all user-created content without human curation. In this case, Twitch openly admits that they haven't solved that problem:

> This is not intended to be our long-term solution to improve brand targeting capabilities and increase personalization in our recommendations. It does, however, solve a few issues for all audiences in the near term.

But they do clearly understand that, even within the bounds of "no nudity or sex", it's still very possible for content to be erotic to some and uninteresting/offensive to others. I am very curious to see what their next steps will be after this temporary patch, because there's no way to categorize or exclude all Rule 34 content on any content platform where users can upload content without human review and classification, and I don't think that Twitch's short-term compromise today will be a viable long-term solution.
I imagine that regardless what the ruling is that it will be appealed. I have however noticed that a lot of the comments I have seen about this case seem to be spreading FUD. After the news about what happened with net neutrality I wonder if many of the comments are a result of astroturfing to manipulate public opinion. When I keep seeing comments about how this would affect consoles which to me seems incredibly unlikely, as my understanding of antitrust is that it is usually about leveraging a position in one market to gain an unfair advantage in another. It seems clear to me that consoles are focused on the digital entertainment market with a specialization in the gaming submarket. This is far different from the market that many of Apples devices like the iPhone are in; The iPhone competes in the mobile market, However as a platform it is not focused on any particular market, much like a windows PC it is general purpose. Because of this and the way the app store is setup, Apple gains an advantage in almost any market that can earn money through mobile apps and ecosystems. Further by restricting some APIs to their exclusive use they can Further give themselves an advantage like the recent case of tracking tags and tile only being to use features through apples app. This last example is something that Microsoft had to stop when they went through antitrust investigations. My own opinion is that what Apple and Google now do make what Microsoft was investegated for look like child's play. The idea that the app store faces competition from the play store is like saying your ISP faces competition because you can sell your house and move to get a different ISP. While the cost of switching is of course less the idea is the same the consumer must go spend a significant amount of money, face inconvenience, and use valuable time to see competition on a hidden cost.
I saw the same culture policing from advertisers warp the foundation of YouTube too. Why are advertisers like that? Why don't they just go where the people want to go?
The one feature I would love, as someone who doesn’t need a pickup, is the ability to connect an entire battery pack that I can rent and put in the cargo area (cab?) if I need long range for a trip.
They have an open source repo linked from the article here: https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/wav2...
> Rails made this approach viable at the time.

Rails didn't get big until 2006, eight years later than this time period =).
This is truly amazing, wish it had much more attention here.

Big hug @nelhage, keep doing great things!
But this isn't Consumer Report. This is an index of owners opinions. It's Danish Tesla owners that rate Tesla on par with Kia.
Because if Twitch becomes known or associated with explicit content, it will drive advertisers away, even if their ads are only shown over non-explicit content.
Using obscure terminology to confuse people certainly makes a good joke :-) I'm not sure it really tells us much though.
Nothing. That desire isn’t horrifying. Vigilante justice is.
> Tires are rubber,

> many textiles are polyester

Rubber can be natural or synthetic, and the synthetic rubber is a plastic polymer. Tyres use a mix of natural and synthetic rubber.

Polyester can be natural, but it's often synthetic. Synthetic polyester is not biodegradable. A lot of polyester clothing uses synthetic polyester.
I have never heard that example. Maybe it is regional. I have heard, "you done?" as an example.
I'm seeing two opposing and yet identical arguments showing themselves around this topic repeatedly:

> If you don't like Apple's walled garden, then don't use an Apple product.

> If you don't like the Epic app store, then don't use the Epic app store.

I don't have a solution here (though i know which side i fall on), but it's worth noting that neither of these seem to useful arguments to base anything on. The judge here seems to be aiming for an argument based on Apple not having any real competition they need to respond to, which is probably more fruitful.
Anything that can be made from paper, should be. Primarily bags, shipping containers, product packaging, etc. I've seen Amazon replace plastic bubble wrap with paper-based bubble wrap, for example. They use really fine bits of paper and presumably glue to create the "bubbles".

Instead of using plastic to wrap shipping containers, you could use a more re-usable material. Or perhaps we could come up with cardboard "rings" or other techniques to keep stuff together instead of wrapping it in plastic.

We might have to use more soap or other sterilization techniques, but where practical, using glass containers and aluminum cans would still make sense. I'm certain that if plastic single-use containers were eliminated in convenience stores for a country, we'd see a switch to cans, glass and waxed paper instead, almost overnight. Same as in alcohol stores, perhaps.
In they US there’s a very competitive market. But that also means big differences in quality.

I wouldn’t trust an inspector chosen at random, much less an inspector chosen by the seller.

To be clear, I don’t care who is paying - as long as I pick the inspector.
the russian trolls have a vested interest in any divisive figure to sew distrust in any merican political issue.

with bill gates, they need some one to replace george soros.
No kidding huh? Who could have predicted this except for anyone who worked in tech for the past decade or two. It’s obvious women have a huge advantage.
You don’t think Apple has a team of people trying to figure out what you can do with them? iPadOS isn’t designed to cripple the HW, its designed to extract the most from it. Its missing some traditional use cases
i guess "Personal Home Page" didnt sound sophisticated enough.
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Not knowing much about the EU, would a district judge responsible for, say, northern Italy be able to change EU-wide business rules? With no appeal to a broader authority?
And every time it's happened in the past, the solution has been to leave. There's always been somewhere else to go.
Then money would be less of an issue, but we'd still be stuck with all the same arbitrary restrictions as today, like no third party browsers, no porn, political censorship in China...
My Co-founder (Dan) and I built an authoritative server framework called Game Plumbers Framework which handles multiplayer and much more (Persistence / Content/ Auth / UI). https://gameplumbers.com/
Well of course it is inconsequential when you decide.