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How would we define the limitations on this?

Natural monopolies are not illegal and Apple is selling hundreds of millions of devices that use these chips every year. Apple silicon is in every Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Macs of all sizes (soon), headphones, and so on.

Placing limitations on a single company itself would be anti-competitive because we'd be restricting natural monopolies from growing and placing favoritism on other competitors, which itself wouldn't be fair either.

Wouldn't Apple customers suffer just as well because they can't get Apple Silicon SoC due to supply restrictions enforced on them?

Apple isn't stocking chips to prevent others from taking over, they're buying every supply they can to ensure they have enough to sell all year long and they're planning several years in advance.

Put it another way, if AMD was richer years ago, AMD would be doing the same thing to get larger share.

There's nothing stopping AMD and others paying TMSC several tens of billions of dollars to build a fab for them.

Also, let's remember that AMD had their own fab but sold it off (GlobalFoundries).
TCL ran through my mobile hotspot data allowance (150MB) while off; i enabled the hotspot so it could get and update (the UI was jank out of the box). I use my hotspot with my console, i was using my projector in another room with the console and i got the alert about hotspot data.

I changed the hotspot password and now the TCL blinks its status light while it's turned on, to chastise me for disabling its internet.

There needs to be some regulation on this - because a boycott will never work, people don't think about boycotts or this sort of thing when they "need a TV today"; they either are shopping for a specific feature or going on price per square inch of screen or cheapest overall. These TVs blowing through 100MB/hr of internet data even while 'off' has to potential to lock people out of their internet connections, or get a large bill for overages. I only have 15GB of hotspot data, and i "need" that for the console, my fixed wireless home internet only has 150GB of data included in the plan, and even if i 'cheat' and use pdanet or something to use my cellphone without the hotspot data in the plan i only have 75GB of data there, as well.

So, in summary, smart TVs need to be regulated. And I really need to sniff that traffic while it's off because what could it possibly be doing? how much storage is on these things?
As someone who isn't perfect, it's nice to be able to quickly iterate on ideas.
GP made a valid point. The 5x increase of cardiac arrest after 2 shots might be OK if that risk was very low, but if you need to keep getting boosters twice a year, that risk will also grow (how? exponentially?), until one day it becomes a bigger problem than covid. That's my reasoning for waiting out on those booster shots.
Genuinely curious: who here thinks PHP is a good choice for a new project and also has experience with other languages such as Scala, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript and their respective web frameworks?
Maybe. A standard Miele washing machine costs about £900, while a decent (but less durable) machine might cost half that or a bit less. Having done endless (eventually futile) repairs on an older washer that kept falling over out of warranty, I'd day this one at least looks like a better price per year's washing.
Only two more boosters, because when those don't stop the virus, they will be replaced with CRISPR treatments that rewrite your DNA to not be susceptible to covid. Of course, if you're against mandatory DNA rewriting then you'll have to be locked up to protect society.
Leaving of Mozilla and being adopted by the big players marked the end of the (successful) _technical_ experience that Rust had been up to here. But Rust has also been a _social_ experience, with it's built-in CoC and active community management. It seems like the end of the first experience also signed the end of the second, but without the concerned participants taking notice until now.

I would declare the social experiment also a success, since it allowed the community to grow and support the technology to it's next stage of development with a surprisingly low level of drama, considering the involved egos and passion required for such an effort.

I'm not sure what should follow next. I hope the Rust foundation can spawn the next iteration of the social experiment so that all that was learned in the first phase isn't lost to the cold wind of the new corporate heir's management.
I read something like that. There was link to Wikipedia article, list of active sportsmen who died in last 150 years, about 50 people. And list of 100+ professional sportsmen who died in last 2 years with sources. Mostly from heart related stuff.
when flying in to Gatwick (LGW) from MUC 10 yrs ago, the land looked like an image of microscopic cell structures – the hedges were omnipresent. Bavaria knocked down most hedges in the 70ies during "land consolidation" to optimise agricultural land for industrial cultivation:

Coherent and larger patches per owner, rectangular, enterable.

Land here seen from above looks tiled. Not cells.
Google creates project management course on Coursera
Yeah the title almost seemed like clickbait since "Euler's constant" usually means γ=0.5772... provoking a reaction of "where does that show up in optimization?". That the constant turned out to be e=2.718... which shows up all over the place was a big disappointment
Yes, one of the core benefits of a provider like AWS is that they provide tooling to treat individual instances as immutable entities that you simply replace without any interruption to your users. You should focus on expressing the infrastructure as code and using mechanisms like ASGs to roll out new instances based on the latest Amazon provided AMIs.
I don't think that's a good sign.

The community's complaints with PHP are far more concerned with technical matters relating to the language, runtime and libraries than how Zend etc have handled the usual issues in politics and project governorship. I don't think PHP has ever had a brouhaha anything like what happens in Java's JCP or the Oracle sale. Other platforms (like .NET) have their own foundations but they aren't taking seriously by the community because we all know the commercial companies that back the tooling are the ones that really matter.

...so what's the real reason for PHP suddenly switching to a Foundation-supported model? And why couldn't they entrust PHP with an existing and well-regarded foundation like Apache or FSF?
Yep we do this, works good - you can either trigger a server refresh from SNS (AWS notifies you of certain AMI updates) or we just rebuild our underlying fleet each week with the most current AL2 AMI
You still can. It’ll just stop you before you get to a running web application that may be doing something wrong with the data that goes through it.
It might be a bit warm in Taiwan for the Winter Olympics. And it's barely China alone who see it as China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan#Climate
Mine even have a #!/usr/bin/env which I never shook due to going back and forth between Linux and FreeBSD at one point (bash isn't where you might expect).

I think i'd be up for trying out a new shell for my command line, it's rare I use shell specific syntax heavily for one liners... unless I just don't know it yet.
Yes but then they created their own world of evil with the ducktyping aproach...
Nov 24, 2021 "Health minister suggests fourth vaccine dose amid rising fears of fifth COVID wave"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-minister-suggests-fourt...
Well, it is generally more likely to be tuned to AWS, containing right drivers and tools installed than a default distro you would download from the website, but the images that are available on AWS would likely also tuned similarly. If there are some issues where other image is noticeable worse they would look into AmazonLinux and apply the changes from it.

I would say that AmazonLinux is likely to have less issues with latest instance types (if they change something "hardware" wise, for example when AWS started exposing EBS using NVMe drivers there were some issues originally).
Thanks for posting it. I found it relevant.
Makes sense they're similar considering Firebase was built on mongodb originally
Do you debug your apps in a K8s environment? Why?
Sucks to be the South African government: too poor to vaccinate efficiently, shares data with rest of the world in "excellent" meetings, gets immediately quarantined via airline bans. And then we wonder why countries tend to be secretive...

Note I'm not saying we shouldn't trigger transfer bans (we should), but there should be a compensation mechanism that goes with them - like money or free vaccines. Otherwise poor countries have no incentive to cooperate.
There’s a thread on Twitter here that makes it quite concerning

https://twitter.com/miamalan/status/1463846528578109444?s=21

I don’t have a background to properly analyse this but to me it looks legit.
Again, this is 'disappearance' from public life and the media, and 're-appearance' in the media.

But did she actually disappear? This means taken from her home with no-one including her family knowing where she was.

Here [1] the report is that she "vanished from public view". Here [2] that she "she did not communicate on social media" and that noone at WTA "had been able to reach her directly". And here [3] there is no mention of that at all, just people outside of China wondering about her because her presence online was censored.

Based on this I personally do not know whether she actually 'disappeared' at any time, and my guess is that no-one in Western organisations and media know, either. The only thing mentioned in these articles is that people outside of China could not reach her, which is quite different, and led to various speculations.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/nov/25/the-disap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Shuai

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59338205
http 2 and 3 have much stricter defined binary formats. JSON would be a step back in terms of spec and performance.
Every mainstream upstream Linux vendor is continuously pushing updated AMIs. It shouldn’t really matter whether you solve this with Ubuntu or Amazon Linux or RHEL/CentOS.

Sounds like you need a better process / automation for rolling updates. Either continuously rebuilt golden images or rolling security patches, or turning on your distros unattended upgrade mechanism could be solutions depending on your environment.
> This example works against you. Scope shadowing is nearly universally considered bad practice

So you never used the same variable name in two different scopes ever? Like, if a function takes argument "name", no other function you ever write again in any program can have a variable named "name" unless it is the same exact usage?

Or, as is commonly complained about in math, every programmer in the world then use the variable "name" only for that usecase and otherwise comes up with a new name for it?

Having different scopes doesn't imply shadowing, it just means that you define it and then use it and then scope goes out and it no longer exists. No mathematician knows even close to every domain, so different domains of math uses notation differently. It is like how different programmers programs in different programming languages. It is such a waste to have so many programming languages, but people still do it for legacy reasons.
If you can, definitely standardize on as few distros as possible. It'll make applying patches (and learning when things go wrong, because they will) much easier.

We used to have all sorts of distros that people just felt like using without worrying about their maintainability. We kept fighting fires to keep everything running. Once we standardized on a single distro (CentOS at the time), everything started working much more smoothly. We could have picked Debian, Ubuntu, it doesn't matter.

That being said, Amazon Linux 2 is pretty well maintained. Most things (all?) that work on RHEL, will work on it. You may need to use 3rd-party repos if you want really newer stuff (eg. PHP) but that's inherent to such LTS releases. That situation is expected to improve with the improvements that adopting Fedora brings in AL2022 but I need to catch up.
In my field nature papers have a reputation for employing a fair amount of poetic licence. Have no idea how universal this is .
Turkey has effective legislation toward violence against women: Erdoğan (sic)
That's really weird. I'm not thankful for aspartame or other sweeteners, and even less thankful for corrupt food agencies approving them. Refined sugars aren't healthy, but aspartame isn't a solution. In my household, a kilogram of sugar lasts for months if not a year. Yes, we do buy food with added sugar, but always avoid artificial sweeteners, except when they are unavoidable in drugs or food supplements. I'm 192cm 75kg in early 40s and just occasionally ride a bike or take a walk.

#5 is like: I'm thankful that you can smoke a cigarette and not die immediatelly of it.
Does the law catch the retailer who have to products with identical specs and different model numbers? Mattress companies have long used the trick to advertise permanent sale pricing that is just standard pricing in North America.
Two issues I have seen with the AU/NZ standards:

1. When they introduced the plastic sleeve on phase and neutral pins, it severely weakened the pins of the plug and they can rip off inside the socket. Very very unsafe.

2. The standards are very weak on cheap four way plugboards - the sockets fail over time and have a variety of failure modes, especially fire risk. Buy quality plugboards (although hard to judge as a consumer).
This is more for other scientists, science-twitter is quite a big thing and often how scientists communicate new results, pre-prints, job-postings etc. It's just sad that the media and lay-people are ruining one of the only positives twitter provides.
> allow blocking and non-blocking implementations to share the same API

Sounds like an excellent way to create weird concurrency heisenbugs.
In the past 4 months, I got to know over 30 people by jamming with them on Jamulus. When you click on the "Connect" button Jamulus will list the public servers, sorted by latency. It will also list the name of people in each server. This works pretty well if there are Jamulus users in your area.

8 months ago, before Jamulus became more popular in my area, we used Clubhouse to connect with more musicians. We started a Clubhouse room and streamed the sound from Jamulus to that room. We put the server IP address in the room title and in the bio so listeners can connect to our server and jam with us. This brought our group from 3 people to about 20 people.
> What would you do now that you’re not doing already?

Well, if you're a policymaker then suspending travel to prevent it from spreading internationally. If it's the worst case (more infectious than delta + immune evading) then buying a little time to adapt vaccines or produce the recently announced antivirals could save a lot of lives.
How about the good old principle "don't build around one customer" ? In long term Apple will twist their hands out. I don't think TSMC management is so dumb not to understand that, yet their shareholders may be.
I mean what I am about to ask honestly. Why do you think of vaccinations in this way? From my perspective they are bringing us closer to a normal society at minimal risk. Vaccine mandates have been part of American society (and I assume others) for many years. Why is this one so different for you?
I’d like to have eagle dna please.
A trip to https://www.james-smith.co.uk/ will sort you out, next time you're in London. For a suitable price, naturally!
There are things we regret not doing and things we regret doing.

I’m sorry.
Elephants can walk underwater using their trunks as snorkels. Maybe they would be too buoyant for it in sea water. It seems a fair thing to wonder though.
I wish the actually interesting dApp projects got as much traction on HN as the boring stuff does.

A POAP could just be a signed message by the event organizer. It barely uses the capabilities of general purpose turing-complete(ish) blockchains.
If there is advertising revenue involved, then the pagination is all about hits. Each page load is an opportunity to serve more ads.
> You should just develop your apps in/with/for containers. The container contains all the dependencies for your app. This way you never have to think about the host OS ever again; your app "just works" (once you hook up the networking, environment, secrets, storage, logging, etc for whatever is running your container). That sounds like a lot of extra work, but actually it's just standardizing the things you should already be dealing with even if you didn't use containers. The end result is your app works more reliably and you can run it anywhere.

This is a false sense of reproducibility. I encountered cases where container worked well on one machine and crashed or had weird bugs on another one.
It can detect it as a positive result, it can't distinguish between variants.
This post is 5 years old. Slack migrated from PHP to Hack. By now you can not run PHP code in Hack anymore.
A variant outcompeting other variants isn’t in and of itself concerning. Viruses mutate in order spread more effectively, not surprising. Does it produce milder or more extreme symptoms? That’s the interesting part and the article doesn’t go into any specifics.
I am definitely alarmed. What I learned while doom-scrolling

* SA has a <50% vaccination rate, so its not quite clear whether its spread could be circumvent vaccine-induced antibodies
* SA is past its delta-wave, so this variant has made relatively huge gain over delta, but absolute numbers are still fairly moderate.

I'm all in for taking necessary precautions for slowing down the arrival of the new variant in other countries, but it seems it isn't clear yet that the effect we see in South Africa will replicate elsewhere.
> You should reflect on how much effort you spend defending such a regime all over this website (...)

Wow, you're right about that. I thought you might have been saying it as an offhand comment, but I just looked through the 4 most recent pages of FooBarWidget's comments and only 2 comments of those listed were not directly defending or espousing CCP talking points.

Potential shill?

edit:
Their earlier comments have a higher 'normal' to shill-esque ratio, but the greater majority of their comments that I have seen are shill-like.
I have been using ROCm for 2y+. The investment in this infrastructure was a big mistake. The biggest burner was the need to do a clean install on each new ROCm release. Clean here means manually finding and deleting all traces from the previous ROCm version, and recompilation of apps like pytorch. Good upgrades took hours, bad ones days ... . Finally I settled to freeze the system and not touch it anymore until retirement of the cards, hopefully soon.
I strongly disagree about data frames. I am a data scientist professionally, and I think the data frame is one of the most important programming abstractions I use.
Indeed it is. Plus ca change...
> I moved from bash => zsh => fish

Did the same, but moved on.

Now it is: bash => zsh => fish => nu
Iterating on ideas is much quicker when the compiler tells you when you made a mistake or failed to change your code after changing your mind.
I'm eternally grateful for Mrs. Walker's 2nd grade class, where they shoved us in a room full of Apple 2e's and made us play a typing game (and if you finished, you got to play Oregon Trail). I'm a bit surprised/disappointed that touch typing isn't universally taught in school.
It's Buy Nothing Day, per Adbusters.
For those few AMI's that are long lived, AWS SSM Patch Manager is your friend. Naturally take care to roll out patches in a rolling block, you don't want to apply a broken patch everywhere in the same day :)

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
> In the vast amount of cases there is never any (clear or otherwise) option to set the language of the site.

Unless manually disabled for privacy reasons (in which case... well yeah) your browser sends a weighted list of your language preferences with the HTTP request, the option on the site should only be an override.

> This has held true for Google as well as small mom and pops web shops.

Google follows the above language list unless your account or temporary session settings override it. Mom and pop probably don't know how to support more than one language let alone how to implement it well.
We aren’t policy makers, though.
Most of the examples you link don't prove what you claim.

1. Same issues as any voice assistant. It only uploads things when voice recognition is actually active, and puts a big icon on the screen to show this.

2. Not screenshots, it uses fingerprints to recognise content.

3. That TV is an older special model advertised with built-in camera for skype. The linked video raises a minor security issue that web pages you navigate to (on your smart TV, how many people actually do that?) can enable the webcam without you knowing.

Most TVs don't have a hidden front facing camera.

4. Audio beacons are hard-coded into the tv content, your smart TV doesn't add them. It's more of a privacy issue with smart phone apps using them, and the studios who add them.

5. Actually true

6. You link to a thread of someone asking if TVs might do this. Nobody has provided any evidence of TVs actually doing it, it's 100% theoretical.

IMO, the fingerprinting and advertising are bad enough. No need to invent extra FUD about what smart tvs can do.
> It's also great that WTA does not depend on Chinese market

Due to Covid several tournaments in China were cancelled, which seems to have helped.
HTTP 1.1 is an old protocol, over time new requirements made modifications necessary, some things fell out of use, and some changes turned out to be mistakes.
That it's text-based without using doesn't help

The basis is simple, but then add Cookies, HTTPS, Authentication, Redirecting, Host headers, caching, chunked encoding, WebDAV, CORS, etc etc. All justifiable but all adding complexity.
Wondering how it would function after being passed through https://github.com/azproduction/html-tui
There's an interesting paper that touches on #2. From Assistant Professor Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi. Definitely worth a read.

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~sabdujyo/papers/sigcomm21-cme.pdf
Here in Norway we didn't have Black Friday until like a decade ago or so, when shops started introducing it. They even had to explain what it was all about in the ads.

Now it's no longer Black Friday, no... now we have Black Week and even Black November, filled with 10% off prices or deep discounts on old junk nobody wanted...

There's still a few really good deals, and there's a positive to concentrating the deals to one day: you're looking for deals. Doesn't help me that a thing was off even more a few months ago if I missed it then.
I don't know, but just to throw this out there, I believe very cardiovascularly 'fit' people have a risk of death because their heart rate can drop dangerously during sleep(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8GZlBBv5k). I would also think soccer players are more likely to use performance enhancing drugs. I wouldn't blame it on the vaccine without more data.
That's kinda racist. You can't possibly be saying that there's no way there exists an Indian engineer that can compete hand-in-hand with a Silicon Valley engineer on an intellectual level (connections is a different thing).

So this being the case. Why does the Indian still earn less than the Silicon Valley peep?
Sad to see your comment greyed out. What you said makes sense.

All major banks and lots of hedge funds are investing in it for a reason. Softbank invested $92MM in a crypto video game (The Sand).... These people aren't stupid investors.
India now has more women than men but sex ratio at birth still low
Stores in Europe advertise "Black Week". I've seen "Single's Day" sales even (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles%27_Day#Outside_China).