skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“vegan veggie tacos, Mediterranean chickpeas and black bean and plantain rice bowls.”

Idk sounds good to me.

Eating vegan is various combinations of grains, beans, lentils, vegetables and herbs. All of which are mass producible and cheaper than meat and dairy. Especially when factoring in that meat and dairy is heavily subsidized.
What they need to realize is that there are advantages _and_ responsibilities that come with sheer scale. Their apps are rife with misinformation and gaslighting.

Facebook has become associated with argument, fight and social misery in the minds of their consumers. They need to take some substantial steps to change that. Merely wishing these issues away with posts, launching new products or changing the company name does not cut it.
My approach is Rails until the last possible moment. I'm no Rails maximalist - I did recently spin out a major part of our application into an Express service, as the Node library for a specific task was the best in breed. But I'm very defensive against signing my name on a complexity mortgage.
....Including the US. See: Civil Asset Forfeiture.
Not very effectively yet, in my experience. Also, "throw more compute at it" is much simpler in complexity to something like PID. We don't have good orchestration yet for automating changes of multiple variables.

/s orchestrating workloads on 10^5 hosts.
This is exactly the problem I am facing now!
I thought picking up and building things with Vue should be a breeze but boy what a nightmare its turning out to be.
There is so much room for improvement in the JS ecosystem.
I'm a bit passionate about this, so my words below may sound "absolutist", but pls understand that being open-minded is really important to me. I'm willing to listen. With that said:

> I really don’t like the idea of downvotes, just makes it easier to make sure there’s only one train of thought under a tweet.

Yes, that's for sure going to happen, and the repercussions need to be dealt with thoughtfully.

But we must do it because there are very few human social situations (in person) where some reflexive negative inhibition is not present, as appropriate reaction. (Maybe therapy, but that's a really specific edge-case.) We give negative feedback all the time in our on-the-fly facial expressions and tones, and most humans have some baked in moderating reactions to that.

We can't have digital spaces without some form of negative feedback. Imagine how fucked up your in-person social groups/interactions would be if everyone, for YEARS was for some reason only capable of boosting/encouraging one another, with no reflexive negative responses -- no frowns, no eyebrow emoting, no body language.

Yes, it will be abused. But we desperately need to figure it out. The relational tools and mechanisms that human brains and bodies have learned over millenia of evolution... these are not things to be discarded so lightly as we have when building tech. They're mostly there for a reason, because they helped us get here as collective. There is wisdom in recreating their patterns. <3
I think I get it now. The point of the experiment is to ELI5 the concept of variance to management types who skipped statistics classes :) Could be useful for some bosses I had :)
> I don't care to analyze the US cellular market, but I would be curious to what extent the way the government has regulated this market has pushed it toward mergers.

I believe that auctioning spectrum is a huge factor in creating monopolies because only the biggest companies get spectrum. No small guy can afford to compete in the auction. I don't think that auction (to the highest bidder) is the best way to allocate spectrum if the goal is to preserve competition.
soon-ish https://cs.opensource.google/go/x/exp/+/master:slices/slices...
Pretty strong word, betrayal.

Someone on 9to5 Mac suggested Steve to put his money where his mouth is, i.e. pull his own software from App Store, before demanding from Apple employees that they leave the company. I think that's a good advice.
> Anyone making software for the Xbox has to pay Microsoft. Why is this different?

Historically, writing software for the Xbox meant getting dev kits not sold to the public as well as access to private documentation. And there was a level of support from Microsoft game studios could expect. The deals between studios and Microsoft could also include co-marketing or exclusivity. Plus to get an Xbox tittle out you needed a distributor (remember brick and mortar stores) so it really was B2B. Today I wouldn’t be surprised to see Microsoft just going with the Store model and taking a very small cut from indies. But distribution is nowhere as hard and expensive as it was back in 2001.

I really don’t think it’s the same as Apple that advertise it’s developer program to individuals. Apple’s developer program almost seems like a consumer product (term and conditions are pretty much the same for every individual dev out there, it’s a flat fee).
> For example, if English were said to have a monopoly on language, it would become very easy to speak and communicate around the world, as it would be the only language spoken everywhere. Contrast, if we have 200 versions of spoken languages, we'd have communication barriers to overcome when we try to communicate with someone foreign.

You don't need a monopoly to do this because people can be bilingual. English is the de facto language of international websites on the internet, so people in Spain who speak Spanish and English and people in Russia who speak Russian and English go to Twitter or Reddit and talk to each other in English.

The same is true of internet standards. Everybody uses TCP/IP. Everybody. But nobody has a monopoly on it and nobody is prohibiting anyone from using a competitor out of anything other than network effect. If IPv8 turns out to be super amazing and has many advantages that overcome the inertia of IPv4, everyone could switch. Which is the thing you don't get with a corporate monopoly.
Can I borrow £200 to read the article please?
Don’t forget his laudable work with the American Tobacco Company to encourage women to smoke. Truly a champion of gender equality.

https://fcpp.org/2021/11/09/how-bernays-changed-the-world-th...
Apple forces me to use their marketplace to do business with any third party selling software for my phone.

It is not "giving access" to third parties, it is restricting them from accessing my phone unless they use Apple's preferred software distribution method.

The fact that they were in the right place at the right time with the right fashion and right look and feel to capture this market does not entitle them to perpetually profit from it. And I do say "happened to", because the iPhone had nothing other than chance going for it, and it was simply an idea whose time had come. Several others were developing smartphones at the same time, such as Nokia, LG, and Google's Android. Apple had better and faster execution, much better marketing, and luck.
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If your kid has the interest, they will teach themselves. That's the magic of the 'kids computer' we all get nostalgic for. Nobody taught us how to work with an Apple ][ or C64, we picked it up from books and from friends.

These days the online resources are lightyears better. I say let them explore and they will find their own path. You can't force this on someone and expect them to succeed.
Or 2000K wide spectrum LED lamps vs doing stupid 6000K-5000K LED lamps at night and messing with human sleep cycles even more :/ Or causing nausea with the narrow spectrum yellow sodium lamps.
I'm confused by these two statements:

1. "if you find a ship floating away or something at the bottom of the ocean, it is yours to keep"

2. "The insurance company claims that they have title to that gold, hence a deal with the salvage company."

#1 says the salvage company has full claim to the gold

#2 says the insurance company has some claim

If the salvage company owns the gold, why can't they just ignore the insurance company and sell to the highest bidder?
18 USC § 700 is unenforceable.

There has been a Supreme Court precedent that lets you to do whatever the fuck you want with a US flag that you own. You can trample on it all day long, and it’s a protected activity under the first amendment.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Eichman
The panels are dirt cheap compared to the other costs (installation, permitting, inverters, etc...). I suspect that the installation costs and any permit modifications required during the expansion would greatly extend the ROI timeline vs just including the panels in the initial install. If you were really trying to save costs, maybe you could significantly undersize the inverter, as those tend to only last 7-8 years, and you would only suffer losses during the peak hours in the summer months when you are likely to have way more energy than needed.

More generally, overbuilding is not really going to be economical right now. We do not have the proper incentives in place for that. But from what I can tell it is our quickest/cheapest path to a sustainable grid, and that likely means we will need to adjust our consumption patterns to account for the absurd amount of excessive power we will have in peak solar months (usually late spring). This means we will need to start developing power intensive applications that can take advantage of free (and possibly negatively priced) power. So if you want to get ahead of the curve, put a massive solar system on your roof and start thinking up interesting ways to use that excess power.
Demoing fixes (or research) is pretty key in the SRE world. Even SRE's across different domains (SRE-SE <> SRE-SWE <> SRE-DB) will inadvertently question each other. Especially for the fact that a lot of problems you're solving look complex through the lens of abstraction, but once you get them to the primitives they're quite simple.
That isn't the POSIX spec.
Well, there are backup plans :)
I don't have a comment about the "ghosts" specifically, but this is what I was referring to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...

"During a peaceful period" seems like a bit of a built-in excuse for the US when it was causing conflict with indigenous people by colonizing them and displacing them from their land.

> In any case I don't think it's fair to compare present crimes of a country with past crimes of another.

Why not? If country A committed an atrocity decades ago that largely achieved its objective for the dominant group, and that country still hasn't really atoned for it, it's no surprise that country B would try the same tactics now when they're looking to commit a cultural genocide.
(Disclaimer: I work in this field, having done of the original measurements. I do not believe this is a settled case at all.)
If the proton is indeed smaller, it changes the Rydberg constant by several sigma. The Rydberg constant is one if not the best determined constant of nature. This has implications for precision tests of QED, for example.
Speeding up Blender's OBJ exporting
Also men tend to take more risks, i.e negotiating.
I don't understand how Amazon leadership doesn't see how the pip requirement encourages cheating the system and how that somehow benefits the organization as a whole.
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For a start, google should start selling the suzyqable which is impossible to get since COVID. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/14746 .
> It’s not like they make money off of the hardware

microsoft hasn’t made any money off of the whole xbox ecosystem since it’s inception 20 years ago. it’s been loss making since day zero.
Part of the difficulty in that analogy is that we normally think of things as damped by some surrounding media. For particles (modeled as field resonances storing quantized spatially concentrated energy) the only damping is coupling to other resonances (e.g. other particles). The particles were created by those interactions and they be annihilated (or decay) into other particles depending on how those resonances couple. Often due to quantization, this requires multiple particles including photons to "transmute" and that combination tends to reduce the likelihood of the interaction. That's my intuition from 30 years ago, anyway.
Ok, that's fine. If I can _choose_ to use Apple's services, in exchange for their cut, then that's a trade that I can evaluate as a business. Instead if I want to develop for iOS I am _forced_ to use these services, and pay the cost. That's the Problem.
The religious person burning books they disagree with is reactionary nonsense but the trans (supporter) burning books they disagree with is a protest of discrimination...

It's rare to see someone so overtly hold two to different groups to such different standards on the same action.
Yes. External house lighting, especially in higher-than-average-crime Arizona, is probably going to keep the numbers up. Also headlights from cars, though there shouldn't be much of that past midnight.
One has to wonder if DaVinci had his own model.

https://instructional-resources.physics.uiowa.edu/demos/10c1...
So what do you like then?
But they're using traditional blades so obviously it can lift anything. Isn't the whole point of the original article that the motors work with DaVinci's screw rotor design, generating lift?
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People are significantly more exposed to the stock market these days than in 1910.

Considering tons of people's 401k's are basically made up of the biggest companies in the US thanks to index funds there is a lot of incentive to not fuck with those companies.

If any leaders gets really serious about breaking up some of the Big Tech companies you'll see enormous pressure to get them out of office ASAP.
While I am no advocate with regards to for-profit piracy, can we get to prosecuting other serious criminals with comparable sentences? (i.e Capitol rioters, price gouging of certain essential supplies during this pandemic, etc)
That's what majority of the people think and do, those who find themselves in the similar situations and that's how companies like Amazon can continue doing this shady practices.
I would love to know this from the inside. My gut says: no.

I've never seen a manager face any sort of criticism. They just lead with impunity. Often they are promoted for miserably failed projects because they took a risk, and in large tech companies with big cash cushions, risks are worth it.

In my experience most of the time managers just maintain status quo. Run standup, do 1:1s, hire, and pass on orders from above. They keep their jobs forever.
Imagine how well the xbox would sell if there was a PC "homework" mode, where you could just boot into windows. I doubt Microsoft would do that to their PC making brethren though.
Some of the automotive stuff is really great to get started. Was working on an agriculture robot and needed a good way to detect a level of something. In short a IP65+ hall effect sensor that can get wet and dirt no problem.

The solution was a $12 ride sensor from a Cadillac SUV of some type. Worked perfect!
>Americans pay $50 billion more per year than Europeans for similar cell phone service, which is about $14/month in pure profit for every single American

This doesn't really add up. T-mobile's net income is 3-4 billion a year on 80 billion on revenue. They're not generating monopoly profits.

IMHO I don't think you can really merge your way into a monopoly. The existence of multiple companies to merge is effective proof that whatever business they're in is not a natural monopoly.

Look at social media as an example. Facebook is the dominant player but in the course of their existence Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Snapchat have all become billion+ companies while another dozen or so have made it to 100+ million. Allowing them to buy Instagram and WhatsApp didn't prevent the rise of Tiktok or the continued existence of Snapchat. There's no natural monopoly here and probably should be little concern to anti-trust regulators.

Compare with phones. You have a stable Android/Apple duopoly but it didn't come from mergers. It's a natural monopoly business so naturally monopolies formed. Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft all trying to break into the market and failing miserably is also strong evidence. This should be a huge concern to anti-trust regulators.
I am surprised that there isn't open source alternatives to Simulink, Stateflow etc.

One reason Matlab is popular in academia and industry is because someone who don't know C/C++ (mechanical engineers etc.) can use something like Simulink to program real-time systems on microcontrollers and FPGAs.
that’s just one of many ad campaigns, plus a computer is not by definition a general purpose device.
Ironically, this 30% and the pivot to "Service" is why iOS devices get updates after 3 years while Android phones just become paperweights.

Android OEM are incentivized to sell as many phones as they can. They only make money on new hardware. Apple on the other hand still makes money on older hardware as long as the user still buy from the ecosystem. So it makes sense for them to keep the products working longer.
EM isn't a "middle manager" job, it's "line manager". Middle management manages other managers, e.g. a "director" is usually middle management.

But I agree, I've been considering the shift to management (I like people) but the schedule seems punishing. As an IC only 20% of my time is scheduled, which is hard to give up.
> His point is that ALL actual work is also *dominated* by system behaviour

If that's his point, it seems obviously wrong. Some work, like in the experiment is dominated by system behavior. For others, system would play a much smaller role. For example, 2 people cranking code in a startup. No matter what system you apply, if they are not good programmers, nothing of value will come out.
Why make it sound like cutting down light pollution by a whopping 15% is somehow not significant. If anything, this article explains that there's an obvious and simple way to reduce light pollution by quite a bit.

It doesn't ever require passing any legislation for heaven's sake, it's just a Thursday afternoon municipal planning decision with roll-out spread over a four year period or something to keep costs trivially manageable.
The observables are conserved, but I guess I always thought of the internal complex quantum states spinning away on their own.
Is this going to mean going back and looking at a bunch of old experiments and slapping your forehead and saying, "god dammit, THAT'S why it didn't work" like I do with my code when I find a wrong sign or off by one error? Or even worse, saying "how the hell did that ever work?" That one... ooooh, that one.
You need jump to to a different company to improve your pay. Your current company will prefer to pay you as a junior for the rest of your life.

Some things, even things that are your right, have to be assertively taken. Not wait around for others to bestow upon you.
Not quite comparable. During MySpace's peak, it was a wholly-owned subsidiary of NewsCorp. Reportedly its stumbles were due (at least in part) to internal disagreement over strategic direction between MySpace and their parent company. Sort of like if Instagram imploded due to disagreement with Meta, rather than the entirety of Meta dying.
Bigger developers who pay 30% can do that on their own. Hence the legal lobbying to make platform gatekeepers to cede some ground.
It's not so much of a problem of scale (it could be when we move beyond 16EiB of storage...): It's primarily about the features and functionality that ZFS offers, and the entire vertical integration of the storage stack helps that. From snapshots that make sense, to df working, to have no surprise-out-of-space error conditions, all the fundamental storage layers in ZFS working as expected, more redundancy types that btrfs can ever dream of (mirror, raidz[123], draid[123]), log/hot-spare devices, keeping all administrative details inside the pool where properties can inherit, actually having block devices without breaking CoW, per-dataset compression policies, quota/reservations, case-sensitivity, optional UTF-8 enforcement with optional normalization,

It can go on and on. btrfs makes an attempt to compete with some of it, but after 14 years of development, it's still not even close to ZFS's first public release (which was 4~5 years after internal Sun development)
Apple has restricted the ability of an app to point this out so it's not as well known as it should be. Subscriptions are the easiest to compare because you can order the exact same thing two ways on iOS (in app or web) and there it's easy to see just look at Netflix or YouTube or Spotify for obvious examples of apps avoiding the cost or costing more if you pay the Apple tax.

It's a bit silly this needs to be defended by example though, where else do people think the 30% cut on stuff subscription is coming from? Certainly not a 30% margin cut or 30% for payment processing, it's ~27% Apple tax apparently.
Not the OP, but it could be very well inflating the costs elsewhere as well so you wouldn't be able to see differences across platforms.
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> Probably, the next is "This is part of development and we go through it..., as well!".

The next should be "if we (in the US) think this is horrible, what are we doing to try to make it right with indigenous people in our own country, where we actually have influence over the state's policies?", not "whoops, guess if we acknowledge the US did that too it can't be that bad."
Have you looked at Svelte? We've been migrating over to it from Redux/React, and it's so far been a great experience. It's greatly simplified a lot of our code, and eliminated a whole lot of redux/state boilerplate.
I just bought the parts for this FPGA 6op fm synth - https://www.futur3soundz.com/xfm2 for about $100.

It sounds amazing, simple build. The author, Rene Caballos is a dsp guru who wrote Z3TA+ and a bunch of other softsynths. The same board can also run another synth, https://www.futur3soundz.com/da-blog/xva1
No access to it...

However, that's unsurprising.

Literally every time someone tries to figure out how much methane there should be based on published leak rates and such, and then goes to measure out there somewhere, they find radically more methane in the air than there "should be." And it's very hard to track back to where it's all coming from.

It seems methane leaks from just about everything, and it's far from the "climate savior" it's been made out to be. It's not carbon emissions, it's just far worse over the short term.
If you were to physically track someone and catalog everything they do in meatspace, we'd call that stalking. Why is that behavior acceptable when done by software? It should not be okay, its still stalking - no matter your intentions or end goals.
There are several examples listed in this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/07/08/heres-why-...
What is even the size of a proton? I mean it's not like it's a nice spherical ball [made of something else].

From reading the article it seems like there's a hard distance boundary beyond which it will not "collide" with the electron?
> Yeah, if you don't like the fee, just make your own phone hardware, your own processor, your own screens, your own OS..

So should companies not be rewarded for making an awesome system so they can charge these commissions? I mean Amazon and Microsoft can't blame Apple for their failure to produce phones people want to use...they certainly had the resources, and still do.
I don't know. Is it really that relevant? It's just fundamentally pretty hard to quickly shed 1.92 billion users. Quick and dirty math there are around 3 billion internet users in the world, excluding China. Meta platforms have 1.92B of those people. The scale and penetration is hard to fathom.
Not sure if it's still the case, but Spotify would charge me $12.99 through Apple and encouraged me to switch to paying them directly for $9.99