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Your contention is that the only complaint against Amazon's behavior in the union vote was that Amazon installed a mailbox?
Who is padding their CVs? The ... regulators?
Instagram and YouTube were failed businesses? They sold to big companies in order to scale to billions of users and millions of SMBs because they didn't have knowledge nor human and financial resources for such task.
> Every resource is used optimally.

Would you like to be used optimally? As in, extracting the maximum work possible for as little compensation as possible?

There are animal rights groups that won't let you do that to horses.

> The argument for it is that the end result is more wealth for "everyone" (on average!)

Looking at the average and not paying attention to the distribution is a mistake.
Auto executives expect EVs will own half of U.S., China markets by 2030
I'm curious what will happen to Twitter's stance on BTC and crypto in general, given recent favorable developments.
Where is the limit though? There are literally 1000s of other places to sell the company. It's only blocking one HUGE company from this one deal.
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I am bummed that so many developers today eschew debuggers. I even read an article recently along the lines of "These famous programmers don't use debuggers, and you shouldn't either". Why would anyone want to talk people out of using such a useful tool? It makes no sense to me.

That would be because of what I call "long vs. short-term". If you're only thinking of the next few lines and doing that a lot, you will have effectively trained yourself out of looking at the bigger picture. As someone who taught programmers, I've seen what "debugger driven development" code looks like (because that's how some of them will try to start writing code.) It's not pretty. There's a reason a lot of highly productive (but not necessarily famous) programmers consider debuggers as a last-resort tool: writing code that needs debugging should be a rare occurrence.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211130031134/https://www.nytim...
In some ways though Jobs and Tramiel are polar opposites:

Tramiel was interested "in computers for the masses, not the classes" so it was all about "rock bottom pricing" and undercutting competitors; Jobs especially in his later days was interested in premium products and eventually luxury products.

Tramiel never understood or invested in growing a platform or growing, expanding, intercompatible product line. Each Commodore machine under his watch was a brand new machine, not compatible with the others except for maybe a few peripherals.

At Atari Corp they did seem to learn a bit more on this front, with a series of models all compatible with each other... but innovation and development on the operating system basically stalled from 1985 until about 1990. TOS 1.04 was really only small incremental improvements and bug fixes over the original (quite fantastic for its time) release and it came out in 1989, 4 years after the initial launch.

And I get the impression that the early 90s push at Atari towards multitasking and major improvements in the OS might have come at the behest of his sons taking over and their attempt to try to get into the workstation and DTP market.

By 1991/92 it was too late. The Atari Falcon was an awesome computer, and the final versions of TOS/MultiTOS were respectable for their time, about equivalent on paper with Apple's MultiFinder and with Windows 3.11. But there wasn't a community of devs or a broad enough audience for the product, and Motorola had marked the 68k line for death.
Parody is fair use. Satire usually isn't.

And I'd doubt most use of e.g. posting gifs on social media in response to something counts as "satire".
My favorite options for Twitter to make money are

* Early access to tweets -- send an API call with Elon Musk's latest tweets 1000ms before they are public to algorithmic traders for $1M/month

* Blue checkmark next to profile pictures that OpenSea verifies you own
It is not nostalgia. There is a definite odor now emanating from big tech. The stink is on everything.
We're deprived from options on a daily basis thanks to these monopolies, so I guess we can live well with one less option.
Thanks for the kind words!

About comparison to Animoto - I don't even know where to start. Just think about the fact that it doesn't even have several video layers. It's so simplistic that you can't do anything non-trivial with it. My app is insanely powerful -- it took me months to optimize the timeline to be instant, no matter what you do. And to be able to zoom in/out of the timeline instantly. And to allow for keyframes. And masking. And just look at how many options I give you for editing text. Or if you checked out the second page of features, to see how easily you can work with colors and gradients. Animoto maybe has 5% of my features at best. And the other ones as well.. Now that I think about it, maybe I should do a comparison against each of the web editors, to show how powerful my app is :)

> if the subscription model works for you and enables you to further work on the application rather than a single time payment, definitely keep doing it

Yes, that is the idea behind it. To be able to always improve, and serve my customers better. And tailor it to their needs. And always, make it insanely fast :D

Thanks again!
You prefer postgrest API over Grapql?
What does "democratic control over our economy" mean? Does it mean surrendering control to ostensibly democratic state monopolies that respond with violence to any attempt at competing with them?

I prefer 'consensual' to 'democratic'. Most blockchain-based systems are consensual in that they operate based on rules that enjoy the unanimous consent of everyone they apply to. If I and everyone I want to interact with via a blockchain agrees to change the rules, we can freely do so, but if someone doesn't agree, we either have to stop interacting or come to an agreement.

I strongly believe political fights should be avoided whenever possible because they are (at best) win-lose. Political fights are about who should get to control everyone or what everyone should be forced to do. Technological solutions can sometimes allow everyone to get what they want without imposing their vision and preferences on others.
The article makes no mention of the warming predating the industrial revolution. Rather, the quote below indicates a marked change in temperature at the beginning of the 20th century.

When we looked at the whole 800-year timescale, our temperature and salinity records look pretty constant,” said co-lead author Dr Tesi Tommaso from the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council in Bologna. “But all of a sudden at the start of the 20th century, you get this marked change in temperature and salinity – it really sticks out.
Downvoted but I think you're right. If Facebook calls their bluff here it's going to be extremely politically unpopular to actually shut them down.
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More likely is that they would ban British companies (or companies operating in Britain) from publishing ads on Facebook and doing business with them (including local data center operators and ISPs, Google and Apple as app store operators).

It's all about economic power. The UK has to think about potential retaliation by the US.

In the end,Trade wars are often bad for everyone. Usually it's beneficial to find a compromise if possible.
> I strongly doubt this is aimed at Amazon, Google, or Microsoft (hyperscalers).

Indeed, that is not aimed at those hyperscalers.
Why would you choose Golang for your company?
I think you're overestimating it. Recruiters usually use LinkedIn's tools to send automated messages to people based on some criteria (years of experience, current job title, location etc). They aren't sifting through profiles and judging people, least of all based on their profile pictures. And the way you look affects hiring anyway - at some point you'll have to talk to someone over video or in person.
Are you gatekeeping “cancel culture” now?
For a screen recording of a UI, it's the perfect format unless you're demoing a video/photo editing application.
You don't need alpha or many colours and screen recordings are quite efficient in a GIF.
> Snapshots of working set would be taken on a daily basis in hopes of keeping recovery under ~5 minutes during service restarts or updates.

Exactly this. We took hourly snapshots (for a trading system), and could restart the system in a second or so.

Another nice side effect of an event driven system is that you start to think about what other data you can put in there. And then you realise you don't necessarily need a database any more, which makes the architecture of the system simpler.

There are so many benefits working with a data-driven system. Once data is in the log/ledger/whatever you call it, it's immutable, which leads to parallelism if you want it. Ensuring the system is idempotent also means you get (easier) failover as well.
Products that can't be profitable as a standalone business but can be as part of a larger company's portfolio isn't really a useful definition of failed unless you redefine the term.
DynamoDB is an interesting beast. It's hard for me to recommend it for most use cases anyway.

It was designed to power experiences that look like shopping carts: relatively short-lived, mostly append-only, needing a flattish performance curve as the number of items and users go up, with a really natural partition key.

Using it as the primary storage of your app means you play the part of query planner a lot of the time.

If your data is especially graph-structured you might end up doing so-called "single table design" where all objects end up in the same table that has its keys constructed carefully (compound keys formed by string concatting), And has secondary sparse indices to power other access patterns.

And definitely plan on overfetching as an _optimization_ to prevent many small queries to dynamo, especially in a GraphQL context where we have no idea what fields are being requested at fetch time.
The media only talk about companies with investors. Investors want exits. Investors influence the media to talk about companies they’re invested in.
Ha, sorry -- HN scooped us on our own announcement! We had the intention of turning the key on everything early this morning Pacific time, but we put the landing page live last night just to get that out of the way. Needless to say, we were a bit surprised to see ourselves as the #2 story on HN when we hadn't even opened it yet! It's all open now, with our apologies for the perceived delay -- and never shall we again underestimate HN sleuths! ;)
Back in my day, businesses that made income by selling goods or services to customers were just called businesses, not lifestyle businesses.
It potentially explains more/better/more fine-grained how our future will look like.this will not suddenly revert our assumptions on CO2 being the fundamental factor of man made global warming.

We are not that uncertain about climate change.
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I'm trying to get more familiar with the options that exist for open source auth providers that provide similar service to Auth0 or Google Accounts (so, more focused on OIDC than older protocols like LDAP). I'm aware of Keycloak, Kanidm, SuperTokens, Ory, FusionAuth.

Are there any other open source auth providers I should look into?
In William Ruddiman's Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum [0] he argues that even human agriculture has been enough to tip the CO2 scales in favor of not entering a new ice age.

> But what if scientists have been wrong about the causes of global warming?

This would require several, distinct and unrelated fields of science being wrong about the way CO2 and other GHG have in the past and currently regulate the Earth's temperature.

There is no question that CO2 in the atmosphere has been rapidly rising.

There is no question that humans have been the cause of this rise, it's just basic math given the wild amount of hydrocarbons we combust every year.

So while it's possible that scientists are wrong in the big picture sense it would require a sea-change in our understanding of climate from every perspective as well as being a remarkable coincidence that we are seeing the impact we are in correlation to our own CO2 emissions.

A far, far more likely explanation is that the Earth's climate is even more sensitive to small changes in CO2 on a small time scale than we have previously thought.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plows,_Plagues_and_Petroleum
I am personally convinced that the only way we can do globalization in a way that makes sense is enforcing labor rights overseas. If our $5 T-shirt can only exist with the exploitation of poor workers in Vietnam then I don't believe we deserve $5 T-shirts. The United States is in a somewhat unique position where we can uplift most of the world if we chose to just stop exploiting their poverty.
This is an amazing project considering the scope of work required on both sides of the aisle -- HW and SW.

I find choice of RISC-V pretty interesting for this use case as it's a fixed-size ISA and there is a significant amount of of auxiliary data usually passed from drivers to HW in typical GPU settings, even for GPGPU scenarios alone. If you look at one of their papers, it shows how they pass extra texture parameters via CSRs. I think this might come to be bottleneck and limiting factor in the design for future expansions. I am currently doing a similar work (>10x smaller in comparison) on a more limited feature set, so I am really curious how it'll turn out to be.
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That's actually not correct, GIFs can encode the differences between frames and quite efficiently for screen recordings.
A GIF will be more efficient for a screen recording so long as there are small changes between frames.
This article does not say global climate warming is not man-made, it just states that "Atlantification" is a process that warms the Arctic Ocean even more.
> Most "GIF" hosting websites actually use images.

I think you’re mistaken - I think they mostly actually use videos these days and ‘GIF’ refers to short and small videos generally, not the specific file format.
> How relevant is the UK mow that it has exited the EU?

Yeah, poor little UK, it's only the 5th biggest economy in the world after all, not like the 1st or 2nd!
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He conflates the benefits of decentralization, with crypto/blockchain.

You don't need blockchain for decentralized services, just look at peertube, mastadon, etc. NFT identity etc might be a useful addition, but decentralized services don't need to be 'built on' so-called 'web 3.0'.
So, even more guaranteed users ?
I can't help but think of Aesop's fable about the goose that laid the golden eggs. That goose is the tech industry and what may kill it is pointless, kneejerk political or regulatory action.

In the social media space, if Facebook has such a monopoly, why have there been a number of competitors that have come along and represented an existential threat in the same way Facebook did to Myspace? Examples: Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Tiktok.

But this regulatory ruling isn't even about Facebook's dominant business, it's about the potential harm to the advertising business from a $30m easyily-reproducible company. Sure, Giphy had a lot of installs but it's not even the only such company in this space (eg Tenor? IIRC).

And if you're going to go after a company for dominance in advertising and you go after Facebook and not Google? How does any of this make sense?

These companies are also facing competition from competitors who aren't and won't be shackled by the threat of government intervention. Instead, those companies are extensions of the state. I am of course talking about China and the likes of Tencent, Alibaba, Tiktok and so on.

So I'm confused by this move because it seems ultimately pointless. Anyone claiming it's "sending a message" miss the point that this cuts both ways. It can embolden those who oppose regulation as government overreach and this may hurt actual anticompetitive practices rather than potential anticompetitive practices.

All around, this just seems so... dumb.
It takes about 5 minutes to set up. It's easier than Clion to use imo and works with far more project types, even the Linux kernel. But if your barrier to using a tool is it can't require any setup or configuration... well I can't help you there.
Just re. point 1, I read somewhere that most interviewers make their initial mind up about a candidate in the first 4 minutes, and the decision changes after that in only a very small % of cases. I realise this is for a 2nd line position, but I suspect the same holds true.
The formalisms are important. I wish they weren't, and this stuff was all ready to go and easy to use correctly. But there's sadly no such commonly available system for that, everything has tradeoffs and many of them are subtle.

The SIV modes are great, they're much easier to use. When used in a full AHEAD construction (where you stick a random nonce in the AAD of a deterministic AEAD) you get nearly a "best of both worlds" non-deterministic encryption but without the catastrophic failure properties of something like GCM. But they're inherently 2-pass. So the user might have to deal with "chunking" their data, which can be annoying if they're streaming, etc. And since there are two passes over the plaintext with two different algorithms (one for the MAC to make the SIV, one to encrypt) that's two "traces" a side-channel observing attacker has which can make some attacks more powerful.
It wasn't yet. The regulators seems to be annoyed by Facebook buying and shutting down potential competitors before they've had a chance to grow into real competition.

> The CMA found that Giphy’s ad services would have been able to compete with Facebook’s own display advertising services, while also encouraging innovation from other social media sites and advertisers.

> Facebook shut down Giphy’s advertising services at the time of the merger. The CMA said this is a cause for concern, especially because Facebook controls nearly half of the £7 billion ($9.4 billion) display ad market in the U.K.

> Stuart McIntosh, chair of the independent inquiry group carrying out the investigation, said in a statement Tuesday that the deal has already removed a potential challenger in the display ad market.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/facebook-owner-meta-told-to-...
very nice article.

Fear sells. The whole climate debate is about how we can distribute wealth. First step, spread fear amongst the youth because the older, mostly conservative public won't listen at first. Especially the young white females are sensitive because of their mother feelings and protective childhood.
Amusingly the demo video only showed "this video can't be played" message, thanks to uMatrix blocking the third-party media requests.

If he'd made it a GIF it would have worked...
Since I was an Apple II person, I had What's Where in the Apple II.

Which is, surprisingly, available: https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/phil-daley-and-william-f-lue...
I think the point of this comment was to distinguish the interaction on desktop (hover) versus mobile (click).

Desktop users are used to hovering on stuff to see what happens. You can't do that on mobile so you have to do something else (click) which is kind of counter-intuitive on mobile (clicks are supposed to navigate).
I have no idea what you're talking about. The phone I am holding is one of the most beautiful, most innovative devices I have ever seen. It's truly amazing that a pocket device made in 2018 that sells for $150 (second hand, like new) can be as capable as a desktop from just few years ago (octa-core CPU, 6GB RAM and 256 GB disk + 400 GB SD).

While by default the OS is ridden with Google, you can trivially replace it with a free version and again, it's the best thing I've ever used - including PCs. I'm running full KDE, Node.js and VSCode on it - if that's not innovation then I don't know what is.
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The acquisition was announced 18 months ago and the regulators have only just announced that there's a problem. That's about how long it takes to make a decision like this.

If FB wanted to use Giphy to squash an upstart competitor, 18 months is plenty of time to accomplish it. So regulators preemptively forbid some kinds of abusable power, especially when the company has abused its monopoly power in the past.

It would be better if regulators could act fast only when needed, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.
I've seen musculoskeleton simulation (although passive and not active) used throughout VFX quite a lot, its basically what Weta Digital has been doing for years. (For example from the Hobbit movie 8 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r45e5Xky35k). Hell, Maya even has its own muscle system (Maya Muscle) that animators can already use out of the box. So the technology to simulate these kinds of things (at adequate realism for animations and movies) is already there.

The problem is that it takes a painstakingly long time to do the modelling for these kinds of stuff. Anatomy is hard to get right, high quality commercial human template models cost you $10000+, and even then you're going to take a lot of time tweaking mesh geometry to make the simulation work. And the musculoskeletal models you're creating are all going to have different body shapes and might not even be human, so you need to create a lot of things from scratch (there was a recent paper on a musculoskeleton design tool for precisely this: https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/projects/modeling-musculoskeleta...) So you need a lot of work to do even just passive simulation (where the articulated skeleton just kinematically mimics the animation and the muscle effects are secondary)

Though the bullet points you've listed are definitely all good research topics in itself. DeepMimic-style active musculoskeleton simulations (where models physically mimic given animation data using only muscle activations) are currently possible for line-segment muscles (the paper: https://mrl.snu.ac.kr/research/ProjectScalable/Page.htm) It uses Deep Reinforcement Learning with lots of training and fine-tuning though, it's not plug-and-play in its current state. Maybe such a similar thing can be also done with volumetric muscles too, but that's definitely going to be a hard paper to write since FEM simulation is incredibly costly and finicky to run stably, and you need a lot of simulation frames to use DRL.

But I think the fundamental issue is: does this all have to do with actually making a good film/animation, outside of the realm of biomechanics? I really don't think so. The latest remastered Disney films all lack the fluidity of 2D animation of the past; the remade Lion King has one of the best realistically simulated animal characters but is utterly void of any artistic merit. And these graphical improvements don't seem to make the artist's life easier and is making animation even more labor-intensive. Nowadays it feels like artists in those big industries have less room to experiment because of all these "realistic" technical requirements. From this viewpoint, it makes sense why Disney/Pixar has still focused more on superficial skin deformation instead of a more realistic biomechanical approach: when making cartoonish 3D animations you need a lot of squash-and-stretch, and that is hard to do with rigid muscle systems. Better to model your character as a blob of mass, it's easier to animate, keyframe, and employ all kinds of effects to express artistic intent.
Firefox doesn't block any MP4s for me. Sounds like your addons, or a cross site security error.