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> My point is that the US is mad at Tiktok because the CCP can do it, yet now the US wants to also control all content on its platforms and wants the world to see it as something totally different to what China can do.

> Its basically, "it's OK for us, we are good, but not for them, they are the Baddies!!!"

Yeah, it seems like we agree, except that I just wouldn't call it a double standard, because the US government is pretty clear that it does claim that it's "the good guys" and that China (or insert other historical nation state with a less-than-great relationship with the US) is "the bad guys." The US government isn't trying to make some principled claim about liberalism and the appropriate role of nation states domestically and on the global stage. It's just literally saying that it's the best nation state and that it should be responsible for and in control of a lot of global affairs. I don't agree, but I just don't characterize the problem as a double standard.
> The problem is all regulation and zoning and land use policy

I don't think that's it. There is more than enough affordable housing and developable land in the US, but it's in places that nobody wants to live - because the local economy is crap. It's crap because jobs there are gone. They all moved to dense expensive cities.

The answer shouldn't have to be that we need to cram more people in those cities, and then require everyone there to get a masters in CS in order to live well.
Why British Nuclear Energy Failed [video]
GDP might be the ultimate example of Goodhart's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Based on working in the industry, and hearing from healthcare practitioners not quite first-hand, but second-hand.

You mention profit efficiency, but all three of my points make sense even in light of that: (i) insurance is literally the way doctors get paid; (ii) lawsuits are hella expensive, and (iii) regardless of profit incentives you can't not follow the law.

The software that doctors use is terrible. It's a perfect combination of extreme complexity, domination by just a couple companies (Epic and Cerner), legacy software (some still written in mumps, I hear!), and tons and tons of regulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
That one still kills me. By Carmack's comment, surprised him too.
Probably because they don’t agree with your realization.
Very true. FWIW I’m not an academic by nature so wretchedly practical perhaps and probably impatient with what I see as narrowly applicable studies.
If "not in a good way" counts, my nominee would be discovering the hard way that a Windows C function declared as type BOOL can actually return 1,0, or -1.

Now, if it had been declared int, I would probably have been on the lookout for it using something other than 1 or 0 as an error condition, but why bother to explicitly invent a BOOL type and then abuse it that way?
Anywhere, except iOS
> which involves putting on VR goggles and zoning out from the real world

Is that all Metaverse is? Minecraft but in VR?
For a long time, I would at this about once a year and almost understand what it does, but never quite getting it. It felt like looking at a hypercube.

Then I read it was about loop unrolling, and suddenly it clicked.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was an engineer and physicist who made major contributions to the field of optics. As a result, many different things are named after him.

I am more familiar with "Fresnel" being a shading technique responsible for "rim lighting" in computer graphics, that's because this is an application of Fresnel equations, discovered by Fresnel. But in other fields, "Fresnel" can mean something else entirely, with the only thing in common being that it can be traced back to the work of Fresnel.
I’m under the impression that country that are under some IMF settlement process can have a GDP policy tack to a loan.

But I might be wrong, maybe it’s primarily and essentially budget cuts.

At least the GDP is used as a justification metric.

I think we will naturally grow out of it.

Taking economics 101 in a French high school 20 years ago… I was already told it was a imperfect peace of information that have to be compounded.
Has anyone used the growth of national wealth, or is that equivalent to GNI/GNP somehow? (I don't think so but maybe?)
Dismissing my answers does not make them any less answers. Also, I'm not the one refusing to have an actual conversation. That's you. You said you wouldn't answer my questions until I answered yours... so I did, and now here we are with you continuing to avoid those very uncomfortable questions.

Maybe you should just admit that you just hate KF and don't care if they're silenced or not. That at least would be honest.
> First, I would not have let the Apple relationship slide so far down.

I don't like Meta, but this is an unfair assessment. Meta saw Google's deal and likely tried to pay these fees. They've been trying desperately for years - they knew this was possible and saw the writing on the well.

They tried launching their own phone product and learned firsthand how difficult to impossible it was to compete in that space. And unlike with Microsoft, this was an existential issue for Meta. That's largely what Metaverse itself is.

Apple has 100% of the leverage and is building their own ad product, so they likely turned Meta down with zero recourse.

Apple has too much power.

With one flip of a switch, Apple wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars. The entire business of a company. This is monopoly.

Apple captured half of American computing and taxes everything that can possibly be done. Subscriptions, social networking, dating, movies, you name it.

At no point in American history has a company had this much power.

Meta is trying to build the next platform so that they can be the ones to control it. These sorts of total platform monopolization plays are bad for technology, smaller businesses (even 10B market cap ones), and innovation. The DOJ needs to step in and do its job.
> What I want (as a user, not a developer) is to be able to force an app to open links in Safari, not the app's built-in webview

In some cases apps use the browser to render the app's UX, via hooks added to the browser to invoke native code (e.g. to expose native platform functionality that is not web accessible). This web content may only exist within the app sandbox's filesystem, or may be externally hosted.

But from a systems API standpoint, this is no different from Facebook opening links in their own internal browser so they can glean metrics on what links you are following.

So what you are talking about is actually a store policy (e.g. apps without the browser entitlement must open third-party web content via this other mechanism).

> and to force links to certain URLs to open in the app of my choosing, not Safari (in that case).

For HTTPS in general, IIRC the user can select from a list of apps with the browser entitlement.

Apps can already opt into their own HTTPS URL support for several years via Universal Links - but they have to get the domain owner to allow it to prevent abuse. They've been able to take over URI schemes outside of a reserved list since the App Store launched.

The android equivalent system (App Links IIRC) allows non-affiliated apps to take over certain HTTPS URL function, but the user has to enable it in settings - and will get a chooser if multiple applications can support the interface.
This comment section has proven you right. HN: We don't tolerate mindless repetitive criticism of programming languages, we do tolerate mindless repetitive criticism of people.

(I'm referring to the manual reduction of the rank of an article mocking go)
Last week it was 75%, now it is 25%. What percentage will it be when it happens?
At pbf speeds, decoding is usually no longer a bottleneck, but bandwidth might be when comparing with gzipped JSON. Also, one of the primary advantages of pbf is being able to decode partially and lazily (and adjust how things are decoded at low level), which is very important in use cases like vector maps.
It is interesting how western countries want to change the metric for economic progress when they are lagging on it. They wouldn't leave GDP as metric if all was well.
There isn't any reason to expect that there isn't shit code, either.

If you spend $44 billion dollars on something, you're going to want to look it over extremely well.
2600 meeting?
Well the entire issue is that it's a tenant of the Tides Foundation which does file a 990 which is where all this info comes from about how the money is spent. It's not clear if tenant money is earmarked or otherwise set aside.
I still have a lot of respect for Musk as bold business exec. But my respect for him as a person dropped to near-zero when he promoted the baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi.
Anecdotes about corruption and mismanagement do not address the underlying point that government spending is not zero-sum.

That hydrant was probably too expensive (maybe; insufficient data to say for sure). The damage if a fire breaks out and no municipal fire system is available in a modern city is catastrophic.
Yep! It's way more than just "software engineering" though: I design + build the infrastructure around collecting samples, patient data, clinical trial data, etc. I do stuff like: figure out how to collect data and generate reports for regulatory approval; figure out how to collect / clean data in a way that supports ML in the future; set up the entire data capturing system, e.g. choose databases, build interfaces, set up automation/ETL/choose tech (e.g. R2 vs. S3?); help other team members publish papers (too lazy to publish my own, and as a software engineer that doesn't really help me); etc.

It's a lot of stuff going on, and in some sense it's like a "CTO" role of both steering, designing, and implementing tech to help steer a clinical trial in the right direction. But we're not a pharma clinical trial — we're a research lab, so our group is tiny (<10 full-time), so we're constantly doing everything and under-resourced.

So it kind of feels like a startup in a lot of ways, but with very different KPIs and measurements of success, since we're grant-driven.

Professionally, it's me and another bioinformatician doing all the tech decisions, so it's giving a lot of experience that are transferrable out into the tech world if I ever wanted to come back (I used to be a UX designer).

And yes, the pay is terrible (I make less than my first jr. UX designer role), but it's also much less stress than a tech job. And it's rewarding because I can say that our team helps treat people like a 7yo girl who almost got her leg amputated from an infection, and she's absolutely fine now! (But yes, I wish it paid more, and it might, if we score this massive pending grant.)
I've never seen the same doctor twice in a row.

What I've noticed is that EMR has greatly reduced the amounts of screw-ups or delays caused by not having the right information at hand, or having to repeat tests. Also, since there's now a terminal in every examining room, I can see what amount of effort is required to use the EMR tool (Epic in the case of my provider), and it doesn't seem all that onerous. I can guesstimate the additional amount of time that they spend outside of clinic hours, completing their records for the day, and again, it doesn't seem onerous.

For a few years I had to fill out a lengthy medical history form, every time I visited a clinic, but that's pretty much gone today. My primary care doctor just retired, and her replacement took up the baton without skipping a beat. She can also easily delegate to her physician's assistant or nurse practitioner, so they can all work as a team, with instant access to the same information.

Now I have noticed something interesting. The urgent and primary care clinics all have a terminal in every examining room, and the clinicians perform their examinations while seated at the terminal, except when they actually have to poke around. That's where it seems quite efficient.

In the hospital wards, they still don't have a terminal in each room, meaning that each clinician has to look things up at centralized terminals, remember them (or not), and has no access to information. If they need some information, they will come back with it, next time their make their rounds, which might be the next day. And they screw up. My dad had an episode that took him through an ER, to a regular hospital bed for a few days, then to a rehab ward. I had all of his records at my fingertips thanks to MyChart on my laptop. The doctors and nurses were lost, they completely overlooked the documented diagnosis that was at the root of is condition, and didn't believe me about it.

Some of the nurses in the hospitals now have a terminal on a wheeled cart, that they bring on their rounds.

What I'm guessing is that in the days of handwritten records, the doctors were mostly winging it.
My understanding of Twitter is that it has, or used to have, many internal teams that do 'social media consultancy projects' for prospective clients presumably to facilitate ad campaigns. In that case I would expect everyone on those teams to have manager as a job title, much like 'director' in design firms.
> But! You go with low setting, tires don’t last 10k miles.

It's well known that EVs in general due to their weight, and especially those with high torque cause the tyres to wear out much faster than their ICE counteparts. 10K miles sounds too low. Would love to know why low suspension setting on a Model X causes much faster wear, and whether for the same efficiency/range on a different vehicle, the tyres last significantly longer.

> You go with high settings, axles are suddenly broken.

We know media is trigger happy when it comes to the most minor Tesla related incidents and yet, I've never, in the 10 years of following Tesla, heard about this one. Can you link to perhaps a bunch of these?

> After 60000 miles all parts under the car must be replaced.

Again, never heard of these issues and I watch daily Tesla news from multiple sources.

> Let’s talk about my future Model X 2017

I'm puzzled. Despite all the issues you listed, you're still going with Model X just because it has free supercharging? You do realize that broken axels can kill you, right?
“The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve” is the name of the agency. It covers the governors themselves but also the agency staff, the police force, etc.
Twitters staff count has felt bloated at ~7,500 employees and I can’t help but think of “rest and vest” clips from HBO’s Silicon Valley, especially during Covid WFH.
I'm not talking about ATMs. I'm taking about government functions, banking (can't invest shares on an ATM), taxation, how to find out which services can be accessed where and when, what schedule changes are planned for public transport, collecting parcels that have been redirected and finding out where they were redirected to, doctor appointments, and so on.

Sometimes these things can be done without internet, but not always, and the current trend is moving more things online-only.
I'm surprised they don't just DQ him under an intentionally vague rule on reckless maneuvers.
Well, nevertheless we should all move forward to JPEG XL as the commonly agreed on next-gen image format, as soon as it becomes generally available with other major browsers.

(Google has demonstrably the code to render this. If they decide to stay outside for political reasons, well, so be it.)
IPC has been a systems feature for a while, but discovery is a higher level thing needed for this sort of plugin interface. COM and CORBA are ancestors I know about.
As someone who started working very young, and who still has dark hair that helps pass IC interviews with 22yo hiring managers, :) I offer one person's boots-on-the-ground perspective from the two eras...

The biggest change is that software become a high-paying, high-status job. (In parallel, "nerd" became a cool thing to be, maybe for not entirely for different reasons.)

I still remember when the dotcom boom started, and I first saw people claiming to be experts on Web development (and strutting about it) while wearing what I assumed were fashionable eyeglasses. I had never seen that before.

Before software was a high-status job -- although in many areas it was dominated by men (maybe because a lot of women were homemakers, or discouraged from interests that led to software) -- there were a lot of women, and we're only recently getting back to that.

About half my team one place was female, and everyone was very capable. Software products were often done by a single software engineer, teamed up with a marketing product manager and technical documentation, and often with a test technician/contractor. To give you an idea, one woman, who had a math degree, developed the entire product that instrumented embedded systems implemented in C, for code path coverage and timings, and integrated with our CASE system and our in-circuit emulator. Another of my mentors was a woman who worked 9-5, had kids, and previously worked on supercomputing compilers (for what became a division of Cray) before she came to work on reverse-engineering tools for our CASE system.

Another mentor (some random person from the Internet, who responded to my question about grad school, and she ended up coaching me for years), was a woman who'd previously done software work for a utility company. Back when that meant not just painting data entry screens and report formats, but essentially implementing a DBMS and some aspects of an operating system. And she certainly didn't get rich, wielding all those skills, like she could today.

Somewhere in there, software became a go-to job for affluent fratboys, who previously would've gone into other fields, and that coincided with barriers to entry being created. Which barriers -- perhaps not too coincidentally -- focused on where and whether you went to college, rather than what you can do, as well as "culture fit", and rituals not too far removed from hazing. Not that this was all intentional, and maybe it's more about what they knew at the time, but then it took on a life of its own.
Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform
I do not think it is a bad example though. Breaking into someone's house and assaulting them with a hammer is already illegal.
One problem with this idea is that if you don't grow your GDP, countries that do grow it will stomp you militarily and/or diplomatically.
> Go ask your team lead/CEO/CTO how recruiting works.

Companies want to pay (give) as little as possible while asking for (demanding/getting) as much as possible. More news at 11:00.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
Ah this is great to hear. I been thinking about this approach for a while. Great to hear it’s a Thing.
Handmade Hero.

Before warching Casey program, it had not occurred to me you could sit down with a compiler and write an entire video game from scratch.

Then, I found out Jonathan Blow sat down and wrote his own compiler, followed by an engine, and now has a game in flight.

It's a truly incredible what these guys (and their teams) get done.
I don't think it's a mistake. They are just too early.

Look at how Microsoft correctly identified tablet and smartphone as part of the future, as early as 20 years ago when they had special Windows XP tablet and custom Windows CE environment.

People often talk about the first mover advantage, but it can also be a curse: that's why Google ate Microsoft lunch, and why Facebook ate Myspace lunch, and why Microsoft ate IBM lunch etc.

If Microsoft hadn't thrown the tower with Windows Phones, the present could have been very different!

Now they are playing catchup, and I think that's what FB (now Meta) wants to avoid.

Some companies manage to pivot (ex: Netflix did) but most can't: for example, Palm who couldn't leave PalmOS behind. Nokia also fumbled, even with the help of Microsoft, because they couldn't bear sacrificing their Symbian cash cow.

Same for Microsoft actually: Windows 8 was too little too late, and the switch from CE to Windows Mobile 6 then 7 then 10 did spread too thin the developer attention: having to use a different language + UI each time required too much effort for too little gains.

Windows 10 managed to correct the course, and Windows 11 is surprisingly good, but it may be too late and playing catchup with Android is not a nice position.
The Canadian government is also growing their tax base/GDP quickly due to high levels of working-age immigration, not just real estate
US Senate, lab origin most likely [video]
> You announce you're going to fire 75% of a company on day one

I mean, he didn’t do this. It was reported he was planning to, and then he said he wasn’t going to, and then so far it hasn’t happened.
I wonder if even Musk would be so publicly ruthless as that?

I wonder how many his employees in Tesla/SpaceX/where ever are currently incentivised by stock options, who’d watch their boss doing that to Twitter people and wonder why they bother working evenings and weekends, if the options can be yanked as cruelly as that?
Here's the great part: nobody else has to prove it's "not refraction of light on a surface", whatever that means in this context.

We got models. They work pretty good as far as we can measure. That some other model could potentially explain the same measurements doesn't change that fact.

If someone proposes some other model that explains something better, ie with same or better accuracy and/or with less assumptions, then great!
Plumbers don't have side projects and they don't accept pull requests either.
I'd expect the website to describe some of the features, but I can't seem to find any real sales effort. Lots of stellar competition in this area considering Mac-only editors alone: TextMate, BBEdit, Nova.
Sounds like Bloomberg.
> You can't make a deal in that situation without inviting literally everyone on the planet to threaten to leak methane or else.

> It sets a precedent.

Yeah, but so what? Is "not setting a precedent" a higher priority than failing to address the "existential threat" of climate change?

> The only option is the Coasian threat.

https://www.google.com/search?q="Coasian+threat": Your search - "Coasian threat" - did not match any documents.
What makes you think that previous management needlessly employed unproductive workers when they could have easily not done so? Do you think that Elon Musk has some special magic insight that makes him get the same amount of work done with half the resources? I know some people at Twitter and some people at Musk's companies and I don't think they are fundamentally run differently.
Having built a number of headless Shopify sites in Next JS this is slightly concerning, I was imagining a port over to Hydrogen at some later date with minimal changes rather than a total replatform.

Of course a replatform wouldn't be necessary if Shopify would help out by - for example - not force logging out (and otherwise breaking checkout) for users that came from a headless store.
Years ago, fresh out of training, I got a job that involved image recognition, and I spent a couple of weeks reading the code dealing with image processing. I was confused, until I realized that all the operations were basically the same, the only difference was the matrix of weights applied to the pixels.

That same week, I had a chat with a friend who at the time was dabbling in audio processing, and we tried to understand how lowpass and hipass filters worked. When we did understand it, I realized they worked basically the same as the image processing operations, just with a temporal aspect to it.
THANK YOU I AGREE!
> With one flip of a switch, Apple wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars. The entire business of a company. This is monopoly.

This is a ridiculous way to characterize a business presenting its customers an option to not be tracked by other businesses.
If you're being nice. If you're not, it's Habbo Hotel but in VR.