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I dunno if there's enough info to give good advice here. Whether or not I'd give out equity in this situation would depend on things like whether or not my intent is to raise VC or sell the company, what the company structure is (LLC?), whether I'm comping this sales person too low and he's right to ask for a bump, etc..
Pretty cool proof of concept!
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I hate that you have to install the Oracle Client, which is its' own byzantine exercise in frustration to use an application that talks to Oracle.

Most other databases, the application includes a library that communicates to the DB via a protocol implementation... Oracle doesn't want this kind of use case.
That's not his legacy. That's the revolution legacy. Napoleon is the sad conclusion to it. His main achievement is showing through his conquests that the old great European powers were no more and by that setting the stage for the European modern states. As the man, there is nothing to celebrate in his legacy. He is very liked by some proto-fascists in France however who would much rather attribute to a providencial man the achievements which were actually made by the constitutional assembly and the republics that followed him.
There are plenty of software companies in this space - much of the time the software company also owns the agencies... eg. TravelEdge. It's obviously an industry, meaning one could disrupt it etc, but it's not some untapped market.
> Eh, they sent the USSR a couple of drawings of circles, and Ethel Rosenberg apparently did some typing.

And all Snowden did was copy some files to some flash drives. Describing significant acts in a mundane way doesn't make them less significant, it just omits all the important facts.

> They were, loosely, spies for a foreign power, but their impact was absolutely negligible

This doesn't sound like "loosely":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Semyonov

> In 1942 Semyonov persuaded Vasily Zarubin to transfer Julius Rosenberg and his contacts from the CPUSA-Jacob Golos channel to the direct control of the Rezidentura, with himself as the assigned case officer. The actual transfer occurred on Labor Day weekend, 7 September 1942, at a meeting in Central Park. Bernard Schuster brought Rosenberg to the meeting. Rosenberg was then subjected to a thorough vetting and recruitment process to include training in tradecraft and a probationary period. Alexander Feklisov was assigned to assist in managing Rosenberg. Once the formal recruitment of Rosenberg was completed Semyonov used Rosenberg to conduct formal recruitments of two of Rosenberg's friends from City College of New York, Joel Barr and William Perl.

Impact is also irrelevant. If someone robs a bank, but does it incompetently and only makes off with $50, they're still guilty of robbery.
What does it sound like? An untuned radio? That would drive me nuts.

I think I remember them mentioning it was like a 60Hz electrical hum and it does seem that the office has more of that noise, but also it’s summer in Ontario so it could just be the AC.
I subscribe to HBO through Apple. The platform I watch it on doesn't matter. We use Roku.
I'm someone who's spent a fair amount on Tinder and other apps over the years. I definitely agree, the house always wins.

That being said, when they're the only house in town, you stop really worrying about whether you're truly getting your money's worth, because you know there's not really any alternative.
Why should revenue from iPhone hardware subsidize third-party iPhone app developers?
Is your argument that Google doesn't try to engage in lock-in? Or is your argument that lock-in is good for users?

Either way, when there are literal emails in the company saying that the reason iMessage isn't on Android is because otherwise it would be too easy for Apple users to switch to Android -- then that's what lock-in is.

I don't get the whataboutism here. It's lock-in. Google is also a crappy company, but that doesn't change anything about what Apple is doing, and it doesn't change anything about the fact that the court case has revealed enough documents to show that lock-in is a deliberate market strategy that Apple undertakes.

Google also acting crappy in a few cases does not mean that the very concept of lock-in is suddenly invalid. People forget that Apple is not the only company being sued for antitrust in regards to their app stores.
This still allows apple to mandate same price on and outside the platform, and still allows apple to mandate apple pay be an option.

This is great for customer experience, because users still have the option to use apple their polished system. But if a (big) player offers a better experience, users get to pick that.
There's also the launch from Norway.

Russia detected something rising off the coast of Norway. The performance looked like an older US SLBM. It was heading towards Russia and north--not towards anything important but a viable trajectory for an EMP decapitation attack. What it really showed is how poor their systems were.

The bird was real. It really was an older US SLBM--repurposed as a scientific launcher. It was launched from an island off the coast of Norway--but the Russian systems weren't good enough to figure that out. They also weren't good enough to figure out it was really heading mostly north, basically following the coast. And their bureaucracy had lost the launch notification, probably related to the fact that it didn't have a time on it. The bird was prepped (a good reason to use a solid rocket, it can sit there on the pad for a long time) awaiting the conditions it was meant to study.
There's two hurdles for the pre-algebra student: numbers being generically represented as letters and the idea of axioms being generic rules for numbers. Check to see which issue or both is misunderstood. If it's numbers as letters, show them any interactive programming environment and demonstrate the idea of letters as generic numbers. From there, axioms are just more interactive demonstration.
How can he write that long of a blog post about Oracle SQL and not mention the number one sin? Null is equal to empty string.
Cool. At least now we can pretend the e2e didn't exist till now on WhatsApp. According to them only.

https://jknewsline.com/parras-email-whatsapp-data-to-be-acce...

Here is how political vendetta is taken against people. This news is just a few months old.

I am not on WhatsApp for a couple of idealogocal reasons, this being one of them
Containers just moved the compatibility barrier up the abstraction stack. That’s not terrible (fewer and fewer understand how their computer actually works) but all those same problems still remain. Now they just apply to remote APIs instead
I used to love buying comic books in Comixology—it was so quick and easy to try new titles. And then Amazon bought Comixology, and almost immediately removed in-app purchases. I haven't purchased many comics since.
It is an absurdity though. You would need a material that can encode more information than it takes to physically represent it.
I thought the picture Threads painted was silly at the later parts. After the nuclear war, the next generation loses grammar and ability to speak coherent sentences?

Just because it is gritty, doesn't mean it is realistic. WW1 and WW2 both managed to be horrifying in unanticipated ways.
I told you! :)

CPUs keep throwing specialised hardware into the garbage bag every time few years after mass adoption of something big, as the computer science improves.

People were once telling that real time audio was physically impossible to do on the CPU, now you can do it even on a smartphone CPU.
dumb. it's a script using wolfram language features. Not really much of an algorithm.
Is 80% really that shocking? The US is on track to hit 80% pretty easily. Over 75% of the population >18 has at least one shot and the number is climbing.
i dont think the spirit is to allow developers to engage in scammy behavior. Apple can still refuse the app based on its other rules.
The merchant fees for PayPal can be found at https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees - which includes micro transactions.

For a US company and a US customer, that's 4.99% + $0.09 for each transaction. For a $0.99 transaction, that's 15% of the total.
I like the idea. But isn’t it a common complaint that at a company there are very few people there that really have a wholistic view? That it would be as hard to bring a regulator in to inspect as it would be a new hire?

Compared to engineering where you often see the same things from job to job.
I doubt about PayPal’s anti-fraud capabilities. They allowed to open another account with the same name and address as mine, but with different phone and email, without any confirmation. And that person bought something, and after it wasn’t paid, gave my information to collectors…
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"To compile PC-DOS from scratch, first you must invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
They were expecting the lithium-6 to split and contribute to the boom. They were expecting the lithium-7 to be inert. They just didn't consider it worth the isotope separation work to use just lithium-6. Likewise, they didn't realize how much energy the U-238 jacket would add.
The problem is the Oracle dialect was created BEFORE the SQL standard was written. For backwards compatibility they never changed it after the SQL standard was written. Personally, I think they should have had a flag so you could choose whether to use standard SQL or Oracle SQL.
The problem is that the proposed new definition of "monopoly" generally goes something like "any company who has a product that I like and does anything at all with that product that I don't like." Like, regardless of what the iPhone's market share is, if I like to use my iPhone, but I don't like one aspect of the iPhone, that means that Apple is acting like a monopoly because they're not completely honoring my personal preferences and the only option I have is to switch to another smartphone which I don't want to do.
There's Oracle SQL Developer :D

but as others mentioned, it's sold to executives, not to technical personnel.
Yeah, probably, but PAM modules have a habit of crashing and can load arbitrary libraries, so for such a big system component I would still keep it isolated. But if you think you can trust it...
(not the person you are replying to...)

One might look at Switzerland. A big difference between there and the U.S. seems to be that the people can petition for a vote on adding or removing any law or amendment they don't like, at any of their three levels of government. Contrast that to the U.S., where this ability doesn't exist in most places, including the federal government which was designed to be responsive to the states and not the people.

The Swiss also have a tradition of local power where possible, to the point that most of their social programs such as health care are handled by cantons (states) that average a third of a million people each. While in the U.S. we have literally a thousand times that many people arguing over health care at the federal level.

Here's a bunch of info on the Swiss political system: https://wolf-linder.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Swiss-poli...
Seems like a bad time to invest in NFL. Its a dying sport.
True that cheaper payment methods may not drive down the price of an app or in-app transactions. But as a user, you would be more satisfied knowing that that the $10 you are paying for an app (or for some transaction within it) is going to the creator of the app, rather than some arbitrary percentage (decided by Apple) of your money. As a user, you would even feel worse knowing that Apple simply pockets the remaining amount.
> We don't have a COVID problem, we have a health problem. Has the government been encouraging people to take vitamin D, get fresh air, exercise, and get to a healthy weight? The rhetoric has been sit down and get the jab.

I'm disabled and it's not my fault. I'm a healthy weight, I have a vegetarian diet high in vegetables, I do my rehab exercises every day and see the doctor frequently. And yet my condition is progressing, because that's the nature of it.

My comorbidities aren't a moral failing.
There's never a reason to cut it as close as a few days. If you had a sensible plan, you would have enacted it weeks before so as to not get into this situation. Even letsencrypt, with its famously short-lived certificates, is supposed to renew 30 days before expiry.

I have been bitten with this before. I had a good plan, and had actually renewed that one but hadn't reloaded nginx. That's the day I found out that uptimerobot alerts you if your site goes down, but stays willfully silent if it's technically up but using an expired or invalid certificate.
Apple doesn't need to monopolize payment to centralize subscription cancellation. More importantly, Apple's fee structure prefers cheaper trashy apps over expansive to produce quality apps. I hope users will feel the difference with an overall better app selection.

Example: Apple takes a flat 30% fee while Stripe takes (IIRC) 0.3 + Y% (when Y much lower than 30). So a cheap app will pay the same or less with Apple, but an expensive one will lose a lot with Apple. I know not all expensive apps are quality ones, but at least this model will be economical now.
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Why not just stop buying products that can’t do what you want?
The service part is just how it is distributed. I would say it is ok to claim as Open Source Shopify alternative if you can install and get it running in a few minutes and could be used by a non technical ecommerce business owner.
Looking back at ancient cultures, how many millenia would it take for Grecian democratic ideals to re-evolve from a hoard of gun toting MAGAs? Let alone Descartes level introspection?
There are definitely aspects of MSSQL I don't like... for the most part I don't mind it. I will say, if you're willing to pay the cost, getting advanced features setup and running in MSSQL is easier than any other RDBMS I've ever tried.

That said, still inclined to use PostgreSQL. I do not like MySQL at all, and every single time I've used it, I feel cringes of absolute pain... starting with "utf8" isn't UTF8, "utf8mb4" is. Or that indexing a binary field isn't case-insensitive (ie, binary) by default.
The UK Government published their plans to water down GDPR. It is bad, bad
Sounds like a good compromise then
Could you provide us a lens for understanding how the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China isn't objectively "evil" then? Would love to understand how us Westerners are getting that one wrong.
It's like if you tried to bend over and pick something up and right before you picked it up, someone kicked it away a little. And then you tried again, so they kick it again. Over and over. Eventually you stop reaching for it.
Thanks for linking that, I had not actually seen the update to it. Of course, if one of the parties in E2EE shares the message it doesn't constitute a 'break' in E2EE. However, what I think was important from the Ars article I linked was this statement:

>An "end-to-end" encrypted messaging platform could choose to, for example, perform automated AI-based content scanning of all messages on a device, then forward automatically flagged messages to the platform's cloud for further action. Ultimately, privacy-focused users must rely on policies and platform trust as heavily as they do on technological bullet points.

Which doesn't break E2EE technically, but it certainly breaks it in spirit. And yes, I understand that really any application could feasibly implement something like this, it's not in many peoples threat models, etc. However, if I had to bet on which company would implement such a feature, it would be FB.

It just felt sort of funny, seeing this only a few days after all of those articles were written. Of course there is no way FB weaved the whole system and documentation together in two days, but I can't help but roll my eyes slightly at the timing of their release.
My understanding is that they will log you under specific law enforcement request. It’s very different from saying they automatically log everyone.
That's what I was referring to. Try buying a Kindle book — you have to wishlist it (you can't even add it to your cart) and switch to a browser to actually buy it.

This is also why I mention Amazon a lot: while I favor ApplePay for purchases, there's a 0% chance that I want to use it for my Kindle purchases because simply owning a Kindle means I've already committed to use Amazon to buy content for it.
Video ID verification works quite well in many cases.
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Oh yeah FB & Twitter just shows the way that targeted crazyness (oftentimes from otherwise smart people with an agenda trying to manipulate) spread and create true believers. Is it trolling if that's what you truly believe and have passion for?

And I agree. The education in this country is sad. Critical thinking just doesn't exist, i've experienced it with otherwise intelligent people too. A huge % don't think to google something or learn themselves. They need specific guidance hand holding.

In the US it's hard because one person's organized deception is another's political campaigning.

Though personally I think there is a line of malicious intent, kind of like libel if a person knowingly spreads BS to achieve some goal. Maybe we have to look at the damage of those words. Like the modern day version of yelling fire.

Maybe HN could do something like a verified badge, still without revealing true identity unless someone chooses too. Sign your github repo or linked in or something.
Added to my to-check-out list! Thank you for providing such a robust sample to download (it looks like a whole chapter); that's a really nice touch.
Even without sparsification, AVX-512 CPUs are far more cost-effective for inference.

To get your money's worth, you must saturate the processor. It's easy, in practice, with an AVX-512 CPU (e.g., see https://NN-512.com or Fabrice Bellard's https://bellard.org/libnc), and almost impossible with a GPU.

A GPU cloud instance costs $1000+ per month (vs. $10 per month for an AVX-512 CPU). A bargain GPU instance (e.g., Linode) costs $1.50 per hour (and far more on AWS) but an AVX-512 CPU costs maybe $0.02 per hour.

That said, GPUs are essential for training.

Note that Neural Magic's engine is completely closed-source, and their python library communicates with the Neural Magic servers. If you use their engine, your project survives only as long as Neural Magic's business survives.
All these milk alternatives have have rapeseed oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, soy, etc. There is the school of thought(Ray Pete, et al) that PUFA's and in the quantities Americans consume them are causing inflammation, obesity, and chronic decease. Some believe that it's not even HFCS/Sugar causing the obesity epidemic in America but Vegetable oils. They put this shit in everything so no thanks, the little milk I use for coffee, baking/cooking is Grass Fed Organic cows milk.
> "Does company X engage in anti-competitive behavior and are they a big enough player that it's a problem"

Seems like that just makes "it's a problem" do all the work.
It seems that End-to-end (encryption) is now firmly established as a buzzword.

I'm not really a cryptographer, but from what I've gathered from a whitepaper, it's just an encrypted backup with a fancy system that allows users to safely store encryption keys on WhatsApp servers. But of course they have to call it end-to-end because users know it is safe
This is good advice, but see, my problem is that I’d eat the marine rations when I run out of food next week, and I’d reach for the toilet paper as soon as it was out of stock at the shop. So now every time I go shopping I’ve got to refill the buffer. And next time I switch landlords, I have another bag to move!

Maybe it’s a bit more like the old bear quote. You just need someone else to be prepared…
Don't do things that get you into trouble over email or use Tor / VPN.
The point of insurance is to protect against unaffordable losses.

An insurance business only works if the losses are, by and large, randomly distributed and unexpected.

The more predictable the losses, the more an insurance offering resembles a payment plan where you are simply setting aside money with a third party to save for the eventual loss. This is because as losses become more probable, the insurance company has to increase premiums eventually to the point where the sum of the premiums is equal to the losses if the probability of loss is 100%.

This is the current state of health insurance in the US. It is not what would normally be called an insurance product. In fact, quite a few of the stipulations of ACA make health insurance premiums explicitly a tax from the young/healthy to the old/sick. Therefore, the industry term is to refer to health insurance companies as "managed care organizations" (MCOs), some of whom sell health "insurance".

In the US, when you pay health insurance premiums, if you are young/healthy, you are mostly paying for the treatment of the old/sick, and only minority paying to protect against the risk of you breaking your arm.

The profit that MCOs earn is actually more like an administration fee. The US could have implement an NHS style taxpayer funded healthcare system, but the politically viable option in 2010 was to outsource the administration of healthcare (pricing negotiations, healthcare rationing, auditing, etc) duties to MCOs, hence we have a system where the government (or employer) sets the rules, that abide by ACA rules, and then the MCOs execute them.

For example, nearly half of Americans' healthcare is paid by the government, but it is administered by MCOs. The MCOs are not setting the rules, just carrying out the stipulations of their contracts with the government:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10830

Finally, to answer this question:

>What is the point of paying for insurance, then?

If you have future earning potential, or a little bit of wealth saved up, then health insurance in the US is valuable because your out of pocket maximum is capped.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...

This is one of the policies that also helps make health insurance premiums more akin to a tax, along with, but not limited to, the following policies:

Age Rating Factors (adds cost to young people's premiums and lowers old people's premiums)

https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Health-In...

And insurance cannot be denied to someone for any reason, and has to only be based on age/location/tobacco use:

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
I haven't ever worked at a giganto company myself - even though I've worked with largeish amounts of data... from multi-teribyte pyradmically stored JPEG2000s to 50GB tables of raw rows parsed from ridiculously long documents. I suspect some big places are indeed using Oracle - but notably large companies are still using MySQL or Postgres to great effect (i.e. Facebook).
I've noticed what often causes rambling is writing a sentence that I'm only 50% sure conveys the idea. I'll keep writing variations of the same core sentence in the hope that one of them will work for the reader.

The thought is clear in my head, but doesn't seem clear on paper. So I just throw a bunch of word spaghetti at the wall and hope something sticks. It's better to tighten up one really clear sentence, and accept any complex thought will probably go over the heads of some percent of the readers.
i genuinely think this sort of good, do for ourselves, improve the world attempt- software as public good- is something that the left has a far far stronger bead on. the right, for all their history of rugged individualism, doesn't have a participatory background, doesn't have techno-inclusivity & open cyber-frontiers in their value-system.

it's unastounding to me in the extreme that the right has very little presence on most of the fediverse.
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