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but google, facebook, apple...etc. already huge in US with vast amount of resources before they enter foreign market. a start up in US/China have one big market for them to grow domestically and gain enough resources before entering foreign market.

lets say you are a small German start up. is German big enough to grow and gain enough resources before you enter say Estonia?

edit: isn't Rocket Internet business model is copying successful US company for Europe before the US company have enough resources to enter?
> Why should people be pushed to work themselves to death due to societal/financial pressure?

The article isn't about that at all?
Capitalism right now is just a perverse version of its self from 50 yrs ago. The politicians made money at the expense of the common man and now it’s eroding the trust in it, finally. This is to be expected. Unfortunately even though it did not change the lives of the lower half of the economic population and went directly against its purported value proposition, the lower half of the economy Had the staunchest belief in it. Am not surprised things are changing.
Yeah - looking at the mailing list discussions, it seems people find bridged channels not as "nice"? [1], but in the long run, I think a move to matrix would stave off the "move to slack so I get a GUI / bouncer / etc" discussions that come up a lot.

For all/nearly all of the open infra projects the freenode mess won't be as bad, as we migrated en-mass to OFTC fairly quickly after it kicked off.

1 - From the email:
> "I noticed that the rooms which are not bridged to IRC work the best as everyone get the same features."
Just had another look on what is written on the home page regarding "constant speed". This is indeed misleading. Sorry for that.
> Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative

This narrative about wealthy trades people like plumbers and welders is not well supported by any data. The ones who do well are the ones who start businesses and hire people, so they become business owners, but most trades people don’t end up there and they obviously can’t all do it.

You should know that the U.S. Fed (St. Louis) published stats on higher education which shows that on average a 4 year degree doubles your income vs anything less. A graduate degree triples it. When I read that, I was blown away that the difference is that high on average. I would have thought maybe 10%, but double the earnings on average for all degree earners is so huge it’s something you can’t ignore.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2018...

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/weldin...
> Yeah, but of what?

As far as I understand Google's recommendation for web developers, of anything [0]. Their position is, avoid localStorage because it's synchronous, use indexedDB because it's asynchronous. So anything you would use localStorage for, Google suggests putting into indexedDB instead.

I don't remember whether the browser API was expected to get AsyncLocalStorage like the Node API has, or whether that would change Google's recommendations for developers.

[0] - https://web.dev/storage-for-the-web/
That sentence reads like pure cocaine.
The models have to be trained. Trained towards a given task.
Weird, the account registration wouldn't work on my normal IP, claiming 'too many requests'

Worked fine on a VPN however (sorry, I know you probably don't like this).

After the account registration though, I did quite like trying out a couple models out on a couple frames of footage to see if the models would "work".
From the page

>The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goals of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. According to U.S. intelligence agencies, the operation—code named Project Lakhta[1]—was ordered directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin.[2]

How is that not straight? I don't understand what you're getting at, other than just ignoring most of that page.
Apology accepted. Emotional responses are an ADHD symptom :-)
I'm Indian. As a kid, at a sleepover a white kid asked if that was what my family ate. He was completely serious.
> Ban Oracle and Microsoft from public procurement and start supporting the European equivalent of Baidu or Yandex.

Neither of those are EU either, are they? Baidu is Chinese and Yandex is Russia (admittedly they are in Europe, but not part of the EU). How is that any different, from the EU's perspective, to supporting Oracle and Microsoft? Unless I'm misinformed, which is entirely possible.
Yes. I was assuming an European perspective - also I don’t think any European intelligence service have anywhere near the capabilities of the US ones.
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Yeah influencers aren't the problem but seeing how total productivity improves year by year yet the average wealth of people hasn't just highlights that perhaps we all should be living like influencers.
Perhaps that's partially a problem of expectation alignment but I think it's more a problem of distribution of productivity. Jeff bezos can afford a 500 million yacht cause he and his class of people are hoarding a lion share of the productivity gains that should be more fairly distributed amongst the people.

Homelessness and making money to feed oneself is a significant problem in the world's wealthiest nation. Yet surely we produce more than enough food to feed all of North America. China has also shown the world it can drive construction along to the scale of building 20 to 30 Manhattans in a few decades. Yet the US can't? Why? Something smells rotten I think it's capitalism.
This is a common misconception about ADHD.

People with ADHD have a tendency to hyperfocus on things they enjoy, to the detriment of other things.

ADHD is not a lack of focus, it is a lack of Executive Function. Sometimes the Executive Function looks easily distracted because it doesn't want to do chores so it bounces from room to room cleaning one single surface in each one.

Sometimes the Executive Function looks like a 10x programmer beast because you get so wrapped up in programming whatever you're making that it's all you can think about, you skip meals and sleep and ignore friends and family until it's done.
Neither 'diversion of public funds' (I believe you mean embezzlement) nor 'money laundering' would fit the description. This is more akin to 'poor use of public funds', which is also common in the US, and equally frown upon.
We blocked FLoC at my company because we couldn’t see the benefit in allowing it. If, in the future, an obvious value shows itself, then we’ll re-evaluate. But at the moment there’s only a business and reputational cost to allowing Google to harvest our users’ data.
In The Netherlands they are few and far between.
When you've grown up with executive dysfunction and excessive difficulty regulating emotion, the ability to choose to sit down and do a task that doesn't grab your attention sure FEELS like a superpower, but all it's doing is effectively medicating your condition.

The best parallel I can think of is that getting effective medication for ADHD is like getting glasses. Suddenly a part of your life that doesn't work (and maybe has never worked) is suddenly functional. People tend to be pretty excited about their glasses when they first get them, too.
> Is there a balance somewhere, or is this basically always going to happen?

I do not see any other possible result in a market for products with near zero marginal costs and high barriers to entry.
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I know there is skepticism that the opt-out http header is useful. Mostly because the places deploying it wouldn't call the floc API anyway.

But, it is certainly useful to publicly see floc sentiment. As far as I know, Amazon hasn't said anything publicly about floc, but now we know they are aware and doing something about it.

I saw that GitHub and The Guardian also rolled out the header.

Waiting for a website tracking who all has opted out to pop up.

I think the header also has value as a "last resort" to catch any unintentional use of floc if your org doesn't want it.
It’s become a running joke in my house, but I bought a book about 20 years ago called “The NOW Habit”, all about beating procrastination. I still haven’t read it.
Actually, it is. If I choose to browse Amazon's site, and they do first party tracking of what I'm doing on their site, then that's actually okay with me. How else are they going to offer me my browsing history, "Recommended by your browsing history", "Recommended by your previous purchases", etc. That goldmine is literally none of Google's business and all of Amazon's.
To be pedantic, I think it's that inflation occurs when supply of dollars increases relative to the demand for dollars? I'm not sure what, if anything, it means for demand to exceed supply.
"So maybe they would start investing some real money in Safari's development and add the features everyone is using Chrome for?"

This sentence is interesting given that Safari is faster in virtually every single usage model. Safari is lighter on memory. Safari is far more efficient from a CPU cycle perspective (ergo battery life). Particularly notable, iOS web browsing is overrepresented on the web versus marketshare.

"Everyone" is using Chrome because it was the browser in the early 2000s that they used on their Windows box. Do you think Chrome has made a particularly compelling argument over the past five to ten years? It's the incumbent that has been coasting on inertia.

What "features" are people using Chrome for? What do you think iOS users are being deprived of?

Notifications from web apps? Yeah, no.

I have serious grievances with Apple's restrictions on their platforms, and some of these walls will fall at the hands of government demands, however iOS users are being deprived little by not having a full version of Chrome.
I think they mean verifiable. As in, an encryption where you could verify that A*B==C given only the encrypted values of A, B, and C.
I don't think so, and I'm actually happy that Amazon is blocking Google on this front.

Amazon is always protective its customer data though. Their e-mails don't have details or invoices either.
I notice how you give Fox News the benefit of the doubt but don't post examples from them.
There's a more sinister theory going around.

>>>> so, what this really means is, he couldn't figure out how to get the passwords out of the old services database, and thus forced a move to a new one, where he can store the passwords

After all, Lee DID say this:

<r asengan@freenode> dead: This was a necessity. freenode was destroyed by the former staff.

Why else was it a necessity to dump old IRCDs and Services?
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Oh no, I'm not going to go down that slippery slope. We are not talking about CIA whistleblower levels of anonymity here. This is just basic sanity. You may never be able to fight abuse 100%, so it's good practice to reduce the surface of compromise as much as possible. If the information is not needed, just don't send it. It's about de-risking the possibilities. The fact that banks, healthcare institutions etc. are trusted within a boundary does not automatically mean every tom and dick company out there should be trusted as well. There must be a strong justification for access to identity and spam is certainly the weakest out there. Fake identity is not hard to create. Bank fraud is rampant in many countries where fraudsters run large rings using such fake accounts. If banks are not able to stop these, online communities for the purpose of bot detection most certainly won't.
I do wonder if this will be one of the major changes as a result of the pandemic.

Everyone I know is re-evaluating their priorities, and many are taking early retirement or changing careers.

The whole game of office politics feels even less appealing than it did a few years ago.
You're confusing two statements:

- Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

- Clinton lost the 2016 election primarily due to Russian interference.
To add to this, the switching cost for engineers is extremely low, so you'd expect that companies would work hard to retain talent to compensate. I recently switched companies partly due to this conundrum.
The quote really speaks to people. It hits a nerve for me.

I'd argue this with the context of macroeconomics. Our lives do nothing but fold back on themselves. Production becomes consumption. When production increases, consumption has to come along with it. Surplus production leads to joblessness. Surplus consumption creates a class of working poor. Society has many types of products, and we end up with joblessness and insufficient pay at the same time.

People have jobs, but society in general, doesn't seem to have a job. The purpose of our institutions is to serve people ("which" people is a question), not to organize those people for a goal.

This isn't just an existential statement. Our institutions don't have the mechanisms for this. Because of that, it lacks mechanisms to efficiently provide for its people too. By targeting zero excess economic production, we beg for inefficiencies wherever people are provided for. Housing, education, health care, even service work... all of these naturally WANT to be inefficient because balance has to be maintained. Within that system, inequality is a death sentence for the republic.
I can't help but read this as a kind of "let them eat cake" argument. Sure, some cars have electric starters now... how does that matter? Plenty of poor, working class people do not own cars. They're getting priced out of the cities they've lived in their whole lives. Working class wages have been stagnant for decades. Healthcare and education costs have risen much faster than inflation. A huge percentage of Americans are one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.

But yes, they do have access to cell phones and refrigerators, so good for them.
If you think facts persuade people then you do not understand how people work. That delusion is what is frustrating you.

Facts require three things:

- observation (the temperature is 15°C),

- omission (the temp outside my home, omitting the rest of the universe), and

- trust (my thermometer is probably working).

Almost all disagreement about Facts is really about what we’re omitting & what we trust, not the observation.
The problem with conspiracy theories isn't that some people believe them. We all believe in conspiracy theories because conspiracies are real things that happen.

The problem is that we don't all believe the same conspiracy theories. So we spend time lots of time pretending there is some taxonomic difference between good conspiracy theories and bad conspiracy theories.
The flip side to ADHD is hyperfocus on things that draw your attention. This can manifest as a 12-hour coding session without breaks or even noticing the time.
Literally LOL! My meds have been generic for so long that the most regular non-appointment-reminder phone calls I get are the pharmacy telling me that the manufacturer and appearance of the pills has changed.
Hugging Face just released a new NLP course
The Hugging Face team just released a practical NLP course covering:

- Transformers

- Datasets

- Tokenizers

- Accelerate

- Model Hub

They also plan on hosting live office hours and having study groups.
i like it but i think rather than building it from scratch make it as addon with already popular landing page builder
Sure it will, just not for the people doing the work.

If a consultant push themselves harder to squeeze out that last percent, their company makes more money.
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> Just like it is in the norm in nature for the strong to take from the weak.

This is tautological. Why? Because I'm 99% certain that the only definition you have of "the strong" and "the weak" is based on who takes from whom.

Ecologies don't tend to work the way human societies do, and should probably not be used as analogies or metaphors for them.
Maybe I'm weird about how I shop, but online grocery ordering never made sense to me. If I'm picking out meat and produce for the week, I want to see the dates/ripeness and good deals before I decide what to get, and then plan meals around that. I tried delivery (Kroger) a couple times last year, and it was pretty rough--multiple packages of meat that expired that day, bizarre substitutions (canned green beans instead of frozen spinach), and a bag of completely unrelated stuff that we think belonged to someone else's order. And on top of all that, it cost more; I don't get it.
If Firefox had larger market share, Chrome wouldn’t have been able to make this opt out for websites rather than opt in because it would have given them a bad public image. I don’t think it’s fair that some company gets to force every website maintainer (most aren’t extremely technical and just use Wordpress or something similar) on earth to muddle through documentation for their particular setups to 1) learn it exists and 2) turn it off if desired.
Starting conditions are not orthogonal to hard work. Educated parents are more likely to teach their kids work ethics, and once you are hired your parents are not helping you with your job.

It's not enough to be lucky. Most people still need to work hard to get ahead.
Having grown up around it, I can tell you that, if you had to pick one, a parents attitude has a much bigger impact on success in school than food insecurity.

That isnt to say that we cant or shouldnt do more about food insecurity, but wrt the GP post, it isnt the biggest factor.
I bought the ReMarkable 2 when it was released. The hardware is beautiful (as well as the packaging and presentation). The software was pretty underwhelming, but they seem to be speeding up and fixing glaring deficiencies.

For my use case, it's lovely (reading and annotating technical books and papers, meetings, writing, even the drawing experience is better than expected).

Right now there are things that I could imagine myself wanting but not really _needing_. Maybe plugging in a keyboard would be appreciated.

I can really recommend it if you enjoy "thinking" with paper and writing by hand. I am barely use traditional notebooks anymore. Plus: it's a very open and hackable device.
> should stop with this fancy expensive state college education and go to a trade school

> Even when she was working at an engineering firm

Did she then get a STEM degree? Then, of course, it is better.

What is argued about I believe is the worthlessness of liberal arts degrees for a livelihood.
Mostly, it's helped me understand where some of my own idiosyncracies come from.

I don't take any medication for ADHD, mainly because I also have general anxiety and my understanding that is anxiety and ADHD medications tend to interfere with one another. I need the medication for my anxiety more; I've gone 30+ years coping with my ADHD symptoms and working around them, so I don't really need medication for them. But an official diagnosis is remarkably freeing, because at least I can finally say "THIS is why I'm like this".
It’s literally only a disorder if it interferes with your life. Otherwise, it’s not a disorder. Like, it’s in the definition.

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html

This is true of almost all of these disorders: no interference with life means not a disorder.

Saying “if you have no negative effects from ADHD” is the same as saying “if you’re alive when you’re dead”.
Amazing, thank you! Who says the Internet is a cesspool haha
Having done both tech and minimum wage, the difference is that I can do the minimum wage job and they couldn't do mine. Minimum wage jobs often use humans as robots, and most humans can move around in relatively complex ways all days - that's what our brain evolved to do. I can do it, the minimum wage workers can do it. On the other hand most people can't write code. I'm not confident that most of the people that I worked with could be taught to.

I don't know if this is thanks to my genes, my brain, my education, my parents, or something else; and that's certainly not something I hold against them. I don't consider myself better than them because of that. But the reality is that most tech workers could hold minimum wage jobs, while the opposite isn't true.

I guess that it's a really good illustration of your "Success = Hard Work * Opportunity^2". Even if my ex-collegues work harder than me, by having more opportunities than them I can easily earn more/have better jobs.
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As another European, I'd rather say the problem is in execution. On the flip side, having too much importance on a permanent contract creates incentives for other overheated markets to require a permanent contract before being able to continue the transaction (under the guise of "risk reduction"). See renting in the Netherlands. Additionally, employers have absolutely no qualms using this status to their advantage anyway. It just means playing the market a little differently, like making a 2 month leave notice mandatory. This doesn't consider the fact many people in markets much worse for employees than IT, these employees end up in situations where they cycle between companies since none of them will give a permanent contract anyway, or these companies try their worst to circumvent the law.

Ultimately, it still comes down to execution, laws, the state of a market and personal preferences. Both forms can be toxic.
Academia being viewed as a profit center and 'jobs skills' training center is just killing my spirit. Those dusty old PhD's who get to study one species of butterfly for decades are important because of the knowledge they create, not the jobs they create.

It's super frustrating to work in higher education right now because the focus of every student is 'what job can this get me'.

Maybe I'm just old. Maybe I'm just burnt out. Who knows.
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If we stopped them buying competitors they'd just build their own competitor, and then the founders with the original idea would probably lose and nothing else would change. At least while FAANGs buy up their competitors the founders get an exit.
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Having something useful you can do with excess energy is not the same as scalable storage sufficient to deal with all fluctuations in renewables.

Sure if you have a solar plant producing too much power, you can use that power to generate hydrogen, and that hydrogen can be burned later as a clean energy source. But generating and storing and using enough hydrogen to consistently get you through the night is substantially harder.

Further, renewables are not simply cheaper, safer, and greener. From a safety perspective nuclear is by orders of magnitude safer. Green-ness is a nebulous concept but in terms of damage to the environment nuclear is way better than solar or hydro and comparable to wind and geothermal. Solar and Wind are cheaper than nuclear in terms of nameplate capacity, but their load factor is dramatically lower and their lifetimes are much shorter, to replace a 1 GWe nuclear plant you basically need 3 GW of solar capacity, which are going to have to be replaced twice over the same lifetime, and 12,000 MWh of storage capacity.
>What "features" are people using Chrome for? What do you think iOS users are being deprived of?

I'm not a chrome user(I prefer Firefox) but viewing WEBMs for one. Proper ublock origin support as well.