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Large businesses are inefficient in an insidious way. It's incredibly expensive and inefficient to tax them and get money out of them once you put money into them. This sole problem is why the neoliberal welfare state does not work. Simply making the most powerful organisations around more powerful does not actually force them to then turn around and help the powerless, it actually just makes them more capable of not doing that.

Does favouring small businesses actually reduce international competitiveness? Sure - in the same sense that not subsidising large businesses reduces international competitiveness. But what is the good of having an internationally competitive business you can't get money back out of? What if ItalyCorp decides they are not an Italian company, but actually a company based out of the Canary Islands in no way bound to Italy? Making a business internationally competitive has no point if you can't also make it your vassal, which you can only really do in cases where the business relies on some state resource, and even then a large business is likely to corrupt the government anyways.

Small-Medium sized businessmen by contrast are much much easier to tax once they're past the subsidies. Besides that, they tend to spend relatively large amounts of their in-country in ways that can be taxed efficiently, and on other businesses which can also be taxed efficiently. It makes addressing income inequality more efficient.
Framing is America foreign policy, WW2->Coldwar was US helping Soviets defeat the Nazis on the battlefield and subsequently coordinating with Nazis to try to undermine Soviets / Communists post war or for various US interests.
A bit harsh but I agree in that I only believe it when I see it. Have been burned by empty promises by AMD before.
Same for me, I think I first tried Gentoo. Becoming completely obsessed how to make my system as fast and stable as possible I did the LFS tutorial. Before all that I had been using SuSE and was so frustrated how long it took to boot (~1 minute) and how cumbersome it was to build from source. On Gentoo/LFS that was just a breeze.
It is understandable why Apple wants to keep its current grip on iOS indefinitely. What I don't understand is why some people defend it, on this very forum!

One commenter simultaneously defended gay marriages - "if you don't like gay marriages, don't get married to gays" - and defended the Apple's monopoly - "I like that there is only one Appstore and developers won't force me to sideload".
This idea that without a tightly controlled monopoly enforced by digital locks, the world will immediately devolve into chaos.

On my phone I can install proprietary apps from Google's store, or open source apps from F-droid. What's wrong with having choice?
Rectangle is one of the first things I always install when on a Mac... and yet I never use it anymore.

I remember using it a lot on Windows, but since I've switched to macOS I think I've migrated entirely to their Mission Control way of handling windows. I'm not sure why but I very rarely need to have 2 windows side by side anymore, maybe because I can just three-finger swipe to compare windows.

I still think Rectangle should be integrated as a native feature, but I think I understand why it's not.
Enjoy building more than marketing? Free tools let you do both at the same time
Sure, but most modern OSes would inform the user when the WiFi connection dies - so there's something happening on the CPU too.
I could swear a month ago that if you did a search for "Claudius Nero"

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=568551326&q=claudius+n...

you got a lot more pictures of that girl in a red dress a month ago but then I realized I must have searched for "Nero Claudius"

https://www.google.com/search?q=nero+claudius&tbm=isch&ved=2...

but if you search just for "nero" that girl only shows up at the bottom of the page. I guess "Claudius Nero" is right but that girl comes from a Japanese game and Japanese people put names in the opposite order so that is how that girl ends up named like that.
Any debts I have are ones I incurred. The moral thing to do is to pay off my own debts. If I don’t want to pay a debt, I shouldn’t have incurred the debt in the first place. Though, when I say debt I am talking about things like loans and credit card debt and not medical debt that might arise through an accident.
Europe is huge and diverse - where are you visiting? I suspect East/Central Europe and the Balkans could make for decent QoL for Americans, especially in regard to property prices (West Europe is getting priced out), but I'd like to know more.
That is literally the opposite of anti-competitive.

That is the definition of a pro competitive behavior.

Lower prices for consumers is the whole point of a competitive market!

Yes, big companies can compete in the market, by offer better quality stuff, for a lower price. Thats what we want!

You are literally arguing in favor* of monopolies, and against competition by saying that other companies shouldn't do a better job.
I was at [IAPP Global Privacy Summit](https://iapp.org/conference/global-privacy-summit/) 2022, where Tim Cook gave a keynote. He started with highlighting all of the ways Apple protects its users privacy (many of which are great, and the reason I use Apple products!), but then he pivoted to make the case that Apple being forced to allow rival app stores would compromise their ability to protect users' privacy. This fell flat to many in the audience: why can't Apple continue to offer a privacy-by-default experience while allowing more competition?
I found the NIMH factsheet on PANDAS very clear and comprehensive [1]. If this article is relevant to you, I suggest reading it too. Summary:

Children who have strep sometimes develop psychiatric symptoms as well. This is a condition called PANDAS[2]. The characteristics signs are tics, OCD-like symptoms, and anxiety, occurring in children roughly ages 3-12. The symptoms usually occur suddenly, "overnight".

So, the action is: If a child develops this sort of psychiatric illness, get them tested for strep, and possibly treat them for strep before the psychiatric condition. And awareness among doctors is low, so you might need to be the one to identify the condition and advocate for it to get treated.

The suspected mechanism is the immune system attacking human cells during an immune system response to stress. Some other commenters are discussing psychiatric responses to long COVID, schizophrenic-like symptoms, and effects of PANDAS on adults. There's also something called PANS for kids getting psychiatric conditions from infections that aren't STREP. This is very interesting to me too but the research still seems murky enough to not have an obvious course of action.

[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/pandas

[2] The expanded acronym is very long: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated w/ Streptococcal Infections
What is the user base of Firefox now? Single digits, last I hear. Chrome just keeps growing. Once iOS no longer uses WebKit as it’s base, the Chrome Blink will dominate.
I'm no time series expert, but from my experience and what I've heard, using Prophet for time series forecasting isn't recommended. It often leads to less-than-ideal results.

Curiously, in Medium-like (ie low effort) publications it's still the recommended way to tackle a forecasting problem. The promise of a model that can solve any time series problem sounds great, but not all that glitters is gold, and as you get more experience you discover that solutions like this usually don't work.
What I mean is that:

- Darwin is developed "as" a BSD — a vertically-integrated base-system monorepo that contains the kernel, the system libraries, and the low-level userland services and software. Rather than teams working on one component that has a contractual ABI with other components, there are no real "team-shear-layer" ABIs, except at the public API level that gets presented to users; and instead, anywhere below the userland public API level, is free to be modified as part of the project of modifying system software. (Think, by analogy, the introduction of pledge(3) in OpenBSD. Apple can insert new "technologies" like that throughout every layer of the system very easily—and they often do!)

- Darwin is installed and tested like a BSD: it's a whole base-system release, containing an inseparable kernel + base system. There is no way to test individual components in isolation (without a complete mock of the rest of the base system), as the components may all have circular dependencies — the kernel can depend on the base system just as the base system can depend on the kernel, because it's all one "layer." There's no package manager; no packaging; no components with separate build artifacts that get "integrated." You just build an entire base system, and have to wholesale swap your old base-system for the new one. (In the "old days" on minicomputers, the rootfs wasn't BSD per se, but was specific to booting that machine; while /usr was a BSD on tape, direct from Berkeley. An "OS upgrade" of a BSD was a new /usr tape for you to mount on next reboot. These days, macOS uses APFS system volumes to achieve almost exactly the same thing.)

AFAIK, there's no real good name for these properties besides "a BSD" — despite these properties not really being BSD-specific. Maybe let's call this "BSD-style OS architecture"?

macOS before OSX already had BSD-style OS architecture — though it was something closer to embedded OS architecture at first, shipping OS-on-ROM in early Macs, and only evolving toward updateable on-disk kernels with System 7-or-so. But the Apple development team's BSD-style "thinking", is what made the choice of merging macOS with the Jobs' NeXT Darwin BSD base-system, an "intuitive" operation, rather than something fraught with paradigm-conflict. It's the same reason that Apple ran NetBSD on the servers they ran to back WebObjects for iTMS, back when: "BSD-style" is how Apple engineers think.
I believe Safari will improve though. Currently Apple has little incentive to put more money into Safari because there’s no competition. Once they have to open up iOS to competition, they’ll spent more money on Safari to stay competitive. The web is still an important platform they cannot just ignore. And they have the resources and the know how, so they have a good chance of succeeding. And they will still be the native and default choice (even with browser choice), so they will also have that advantage still.
My opinion won't be popular.

I think it is nice to have a choice of a walled off platform. If I wanted a "more open" platform, I would get an Android phone. There are plenty of amazing Android phones.

I choose the tradeoff of Apple's curation.

Yes, I cannot run arbitrary software and sometimes it is a disadvantage. Yes, I don't agree with all of the App Store rules all of the time. Yes, I don't think the App Store revenue split is entirely fair.

However, I absolutely love that all the developers including the likes of Meta or Uber have to bow down to Apple's rules, which are mostly beneficial to me. I don't want to download apps from alternative app stores. I want them to be available in App Store and to be submitting to all of the curation rules.

Perhaps it might seem ridiculous to you, but I want to have the freedom to choose a closed ecosystem as long as there is a good alternative.

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On the other hand, I think jailbreaking shouldn't void warranty. Also, I might be fine with a regulation that forces Apple to release an "official jailbreak". But that policy should then also apply to PlayStation, X-box, Tesla infotainment, etc.
I read this as a statement of fact. The Digital Market Act has come into force. The act gives the platforms (Apple included) few months of preparations to comply. Breton just reminds that the clock is ticking.
For some people, it's not just about getting results or "get shit done" but about the journey and learning on the way there. Also, AMDs approach to openness tends to be a bit better than NVIDIA, so there's that too. And since we're on HackerNews after all, an AMD GPU for the hacker betting on the future seems pretty fitting.
Given bcachefs' cheeky strapline "The COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data" (clearly referring to btrfs' spotty record of reliability and data loss), it's understandable the btrfs people are feeling triggered, that doesn't excuse the passive-aggressive obstacles those who are gatekeepers for kernel FS code have been using to stall adoption of bcachefs in the kernel.

ZFS is the only other alternative to bcachefs (a rock-solid one, albeit not license-compatible), which is why it's mentioned.
> no option to disable the behavior

Actually, the directive specifies that the eCall must be implemented so that it cannot be disabled by the user but can be disabled by the manufacturer.

> specific payment flows ... online backend

Similarly, europe's demand that the feature of internet services are provided for all payment channels seems to be one of the reasons why channels that did not use NFC - simpler ones - have disappeared. Forcing the model "money can be taken from you without your actful, explicit consent", through radio-enabled cards. The european union has destroyed a good amount of civilization.
Appearing bigger is super important. I remember a startup where we rented offices on 3 floors. Top floor was one tiny room with the MD in it, bottom had the business development guys and the middle had 12 engineers. Regularly they would bring prospects in and say “this is one of the offices, there’s another one above and below. Then they’d usher the prospects to the big shared meeting room.

They got loads of deals done and the company grew big enough to need its own building.
It's nice to hear that there are actual results to show, since AMD execs simply saying that ROCm is a priority isn't really convincing anymore given their track record on claims regarding support on the consumer side.
You have choice, the choice to buy an Android phone, already.
Let me rephrase:

Uncompressed bitmaps with absolutely NO extraneous unnecessary "handling code" (which would have existed in the case of the Windows BMP display code, if a security flaw was found in them...).

But... all in all, doesn't surprise me...
Likely for the same reasons people defend billionaires that are actively doing everything that can to shift more wealth away from them.
You are, I asked simple questions and you dodged them, which leads me to conclude you don't have first hand experience with either psychedelics or depression.

0. Do not drive a car. You could get into an accident.

1. Try walking. Did you reach your destination? Good. Did you not? Go to step 2!

2. Hire a professional driver who might drive you.

This is what fear mongering looks like.
I would really hope you could get decent utilization on ops as fundamental as GEMM/memcpy on a single device. Translating that to MFU is a completely different story.
SwiftGodot: Swift language bindings for the Godot 4.1 game engine
The risk probably doesn't matter for their use case because they're doing all this datacenter-scale image conversion on processes separate from the main logic (and likely not even on the same machines). Unlike in a phone's web browser or something, where it's 11% speedup with ??% added risk.

It's already common for PC apps to split potentially unsafe rendering into subprocesses, like in Chrome. If you don't want to pay the full IPC toll, there's shared memory. In theory should be about the same speed as inlined unsafe code, right? What if Rust's "unsafe" blocks could do this for you?
Prompting Improvements: 4x Accuracy in 'The Reversal Curse' Experiment 2
(Context — I run Buttondown (http://buttondown.email/) as a solo founder, with a handful of contractors on support/documentation but no other W2s.)

1. You need to either a) have an answer for "what happens if you get hit by a bus?" or b) create a product for customers to whom that doesn't matter. In general, people really _like_ being able to chat with the founder directly (lean into that! it's a superpower!) but feel very anxious about committing $X0,000/yr to you.

2. It will be somewhere between "vanishingly rare" to "non-existent" to feel like you are moving as fast as you should be. Instead of setting milestones and thinking about metrics, _especially_ in the early goings I'd focus on just spending as much time as you can on critical-path work (chatting with customers, chatting with prospects, improving core flows.)

3. This does not matter. I moved from Seattle to Richmond, VA last year and literally nothing changed about my business.

4. This is a very broad topic that is hard to answer concisely, but the closest answer I can give is "figure out how your first five users found your product and then figure out how to find more people like them".

5. Venture capital is a tool by which you exchange agency for large sums of money. There are a lot of great businesses that require more time, energy, and money than can be provided by a single engineer working for an indefinite amount of time; there are a lot of great businesses that can be built without those things. I would not take a lot of stock in any prescriptive answer that says you HAVE to take VC or you HAVE to bootstrap; it depends on the type of company you want to build and what you consider a successful way to spend a decade or so of your life.
Isn't recommended by whom?
It's an easy statement to make: "Parents take care of your kids"

Which is interestingly subverted by "Can't raise my kids if we don't have enough money to eat" leading to both parents working, sometimes multiple jobs, and the kids left to their own devices/daycare

The older I get, the more I'm reminded pat/easy/black and white solutions just flat don't exist.
About 5, to break ice with that intimidation, you can approach that world with less expectations and just approach to ask VCs and analysts "opinion". Ask them for advice and see what comes. No expectations, just casual genuine curiosity on how they would perceive your investing opportunity.

At the same time, don't feel like you have to be too agreeable either. If you have a path to profit that doesn't include investors, then that's the best thing: you incorporated potentially good advice for free, kept equity and potentially opened a door for friendship with investors that in the future might become more valuable for you.

Solopreneur are my heros, I've tried a couple of things, is hard as f*ck.
Along with this, I don't understand how the part of the lawsuit that says "Conditioning sellers’ ability to obtain 'Prime' eligibility for their products—a virtual necessity for doing business on Amazon—on sellers using Amazon’s costly fulfillment service"

is solely an anti-competitive tactic, because how else would Amazon guarantee the fast shipping, etc. if they aren't in control of the fulfilment? I thought prime is only possible through amazon distributing third party products to their warehouses all over so that the shipping can be so fast.
Fucking Google, man. I’m on an iPhone and I actually use Google Podcasts over the native iOS app, as I find its UX much more intuitive.

They’re a joke. Can’t trust them to keep anything going.
When living things or machines do math they are doing a physical thing.

The abstract concept of mathematics doesn’t need to exist for that to happen.
Thankfully we have a mechanism for working utility-theoretic optimization into economic calculations. The mechanism is called "prices". When you undermine this mechanism, you are not globally utility-maximising.
Older 737s have "Eyebrow" windows and mounting points for sextants for backup navigation.
Sounds like everyone knows roughly what the relationship with Oracle will be like. :)

Around some other vendors, there's collective loss of institutional (field) knowledge about what you're going to get.

I suppose contributing to this could be a lot of new people who aren't mentored-in as well as they could be.

Also, there's been a field shift towards many (most?) ICs and even managers/execs not being incentived to become aware of non-short-term implications of vendor and tech choices. Whether it's ICs driven by sprint metrics, startups motivated to rapidly throw up appearances of growth to hit funding rounds, or people job-hopping every 18 months before they see longer-term cause&effect.
If Amazon refused to enter that agreement, would the publisher simply refuse to sell ebooks on Amazon? I sincerely doubt that.

If Amazon was actually motivated to refuse DRM, then we would be in an entirely different situation. The reality is that the opposite is true, and that Amazon itself is one of the publishers requiring DRM!
Well, we'll see how it goes. There's good reasons for, and against.

The one thing that I know, for sure, is that Apple users are valued a hell of a lot more, by crooks, than Android and Windows users. Those folks are probably rubbing their hands in glee (I would not be surprised if quite a few of them, are on this very forum).

Should be interesting...
In general there are many different grocery stores, even Walmart the massive company it is only represents something like 10% of grocery sales in the US.

Amazon represents something like 40% of all online sales. Typically having a large plurality in a market raises the likelihood of actions against you.

>It seems to be a pretty close analog yet nobody bats an eye at the practice.

Or, more likely, tech people pay attention to Amazon and not the myriad of suits occuring in the retail and grocery world.
> The people who successfully change their diet

And tell me, what percent of people successfully pull this off conventionally, in the long term, again?

If you took that success percentage and applied it to literally anything else, would it still make sense to blame the person who's trying but failing to be part of that percentage?
No idea why you’re getting downvoted. It’s a valid question.
The not safe one is ironic given how staggeringly high gun deaths are in the us.
I get where you're coming from, and in fact I am planning to also build an NVIDIA based ML box as well. But I pointedly want to support AMD here for a variety of reasons, including an ideological bias towards Open Source Software, and a historical affinity for AMD that dates back to the mid 90's.
Not SIP, but you do need to reboot and change some things in recoveryOS involving Secure Boot (or however Apple's equivalent is called), right?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/inst...
For me, paper helps a lot with proofreading. I can proofread on the screen all day, but the best edits happen once I print it out and start using a pen. I generally go through several iterations of this before a paper or story is done.
I always felt like those who were good at "writing, on a technical level" never had any interesting stories, or even interesting ideas. Still waiting for someone to suggest a counter-example.
Ah! The memory sounds interesting. How would that compare to similar Nvidia hardware w.r.t cost assuming the hardware was available?

Does AMD provide something similar to nvlink, and even libraries like cudnn?

Also, last I checked none of the public clouds offered any of the latest gens MI GPUs, so I wasn't aware that it had good availability! Azure had a preview but I'll look more into it now.

Thank you for your answer btw!
The Canadian system absolutely requires a referral from your GP to see a specialist. And even in the US, when you do have insurance that allows you to see a specialist without a referral, there are some specialists who won’t see you without a referral anyway, I assume because they don’t want to deal with random people off the street.
Changed from https://phys.org/news/2023-09-newly-deep-sea-enzyme-pet-plas.... Thanks!