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> First the authors show that for certain use cases, a single query is not ideal.

Reading it closely, this is what I already disagree with. You do a good job of summarizing their two main arguments, so allow me to rebut:

> Either the result set will be larger than it needs to be

Yes, they're using the example of repeating information (denormalization), such as multiple courses taught by the same professor. But it's genuinely hard to see this as a drawback -- that's a feature. Data should be stored as normalized as possible, but queries are supposed to denormalize to present information in the desired format.

(And if you're dealing with what would be an overly-large amount of repeated values, you just run multiple queries yourself instead of one. And if round-trip latency is some kind of issue with running queries sequentially, you can always issue queries in parallel instead.)

> which "discard[s] all schema and relational information on the way."

Again, this is a feature. You're not supposed to retrieve all possible relational information in query results. You write your query to retrieve and differentiate precisely what you need and no more. Discarding irrelevant information is a feature, not a bug. More than that -- you want your query to define and adhere to its output format regardless of the underlying database structure, precisely so you can refactor things in the database and rewrite the query but not need to rewrite the code that uses the query results.

I guess my overall bafflement is that the things they describe as "not ideal" seem to me like features rather than problems, and these features have been highly beneficial in my practical experience of writing a lot of database-driven apps.
Also, Apple has lots of products and services to lots of potential buyers it can sell to at lots of price points, whereas a fab owner only has a few buyers and therefore less negotiating power, plus all the buyers are sophisticated and well informed.
I'd be a national park ranger, sometimes leading interpretive talks, other times checking on trail conditions and picking up trash. Maybe wrestle the occasional moose.

I actually went to school for this, but never had the guts to fully follow my heart :(

Closest I ever came was backcountry trail work, where I spent a few months cleaning up burned forests and building trails and staircases through them. Hardest thing I ever did, and makes programming seem so easy in comparison. We had no electricity, gathered water from the river, and had our food and mail delivered by mule wagons. It was great!
No— just like how Google was not able to use the apple case as a precedent to have this one dismissed
I agree, but I find it hard to comprehend the social circles that shun people for not having an iDevice. Why would people choose to use a platform that not everyone can participate in, when there are just-as-good alternatives that are available to everyone? Like, if there's a group chat that doesn't want to include me because I don't have an iPhone, I don't think I want to be in that group.
It seems the reasoning is that Google isn't really competing against the iOS app store, in which sense they don't look much like a monopoly, but just against all the potential other android app stores, in which sense they do look a lot like a monopoly. Seems sort of ironic that Apple avoided this argument by just not having any alternative app stores at all to be anticompetitive with.
Totally agree. I was on Google Voice till earlier this year and that was its own kind of awful. After more than a decade on GV, I ported my number back to my carrier. I keep WhatsApp on my phone to use with a single family member on an Android phone. Another member with an Android phone uses whatever the built-in messages app is. Everyone else is on an iPhone. It's a mess.
It’s because Google did a lot of things that Apple didn’t that was found to be anti-competitive.

https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...
Freedom (from government rules). But if an employer or landlord requires it we just take it on the chin.
dead in the water.
Super condisending article that boils down to "large company with lots of lawyers wronged you and you should thank them for it"

I dont know who this forida man is but he is not an elite not a celebrity and there are very different interpretations of the law for satire and identity related to the common person that for an elite.

In my opinion, it is clearly him and they could easily have obtained his consent.

Now to take the position that he should be thankful for the theft is beyond hypocritical.

Will rockstar thank people for the notoriety boost when they have thier property stolen?

To be clear, I'm not saying he is owed a couple of million. I dont know what he is owed but I hope it is enough to make rockstar not do this again.

There are plenty of Florida man stories out there, enough to give you plenty of absurd ideas to create one of your own.
AGI, thanks 4 lmao. Either that or you're trolling.
Zenarmor WAF classified this site as a "dead site" and blocked it.

Just wanted to let you know OP.
Wasn't that Propofol, a sedative?
The system is still working, just slowly. Conflicting rulings from lower courts in very similar cases will be appealed and get put before the Supreme Court, whose ruling will apply to everyone
> Well we all better stop flying and driving if we’re set out to reduce human suffering.

If the car has doors your can't unlock, and the plane forced you to fly or you die from withdrawals, both of which follow you around you're whole life honking their horns begging you to get back in, even if you do manage to stop, then your analogy could make sense.

Do you have any experience with addiction?

Having experience with the pain it causes, and not liking the idea of more families being ripped apart/abandoned due to a few milligrams, isn't self righteous as much as sympathetic. I think there's some compromise between complete freedom and "this thing completely removes freedom, so maybe it's a bad idea".
Personally, this is where I hope the costs are going to come down with time. I'm content for this to be something we try, and we can measure its costs and efficacy after some real time and investment. The initial outlay and efforts are likely going to have a lot of bespoke work and trial and error, and lack economy of scale.

If after a decade it ends up being very expensive but very effective, or moderately expensive and moderately effective, or expensive and not very effective, we can make better informed decisions -- rather than stick with prison by default, just because it is cheapest for now.
If finding out that keeping rival app stores down was what was necessary for Google to lose, shouldn't Apple lose by the same token? And I don't think intention is part of the three-step burden shifting framework last I checked in any event.
So why didn't they go for a jury trial with Apple?
I did not see mention of event delegation in the article.

Registering thousands of event handlers on one screen can have performance impact, and is generally why registering them on individual elements becomes a problem for an interactive page. Registering on a parent element can provide the same interactivity with only a single handler thanks to event bubbling.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Bu...
They tried to use the apple case to get this suit dismissed. The judge already declined to dismiss the Google case
Apple doesn't need to strike secret deals to keep out alternative app stores because they've made alternate app stores completely impossible.

If the result of this case is "you can have a monopoly as long as your device and ecosystem are 100% locked down", that's terrible!
I bought this domain like a year or two ago, maybe someone had it before? If there's something I can or should do about that please let me know.
Google did engage in anticompetitive behavior to make their App Store dominant over other third party App Stores
Sounds like... impromptu deprecation.
Hmm, what do you mean it will likely be decided by the Supreme Court? The difference between this and the Apple case?
Oh dude imagine using cosmocc on the final C code and have a single binary that runs on 6 different OS's
This would be for socioeconomic factors but it maps to my experience.

Downvoters are simply butthurt that others are noticing this connection. Getting downvoted here is evidence that you’re speaking truth to (apple) power
I thought propofol was the "Michael Jackson drug", not fentanyl.
With shifts, you can multiply and divide by any number you want, as long as it's a power of two. ;)
Not likely, they aren’t the same type of case.

Apple didn’t force anyone else to install their App Store. That’s where Google differs and what Epic proved they did. They can’t prove Apple did anything like that since Apple doesn’t offer iOS to anyone else.
Did Apple pay companies not to deploy their own app stores? Oh, right, they were restrictive about even an app that had the same functionality as an Apple-made app, let alone competing app stores. This might get interesting.
I thought this was the case where Google execs deliberately went off the record to avoid having their chats recorded for discovery. Hiding documents during a legal hold does not make the justice system happy. Unless I am confusing trials, this article[0] goes into more detail.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/judge-google-deleted-cha...
x.com might be a good place if you don't want the softer side of the internet...
>What do you think is the PineTime's biggest strength when compared with a mainstream smartwatch?

Frankly, I think the combination of price/replaceability and privacy are the only things unique (besides niche FOSS modding) to it among smart watches; and I like the open aspect of essentially every detail.

It makes it the only smart watch I've used that feels like it respects my dignity, frankly. A minor philosophical quibble but one I take stoic pleasure in. It is a tool, and technology that serves me, not another.

> Have you found the watch to be hackable? Is there any sort of customization that you've done to it?

I actually got it hoping I'd have the inclination to tinker with it, but my only idea that wasn't already being worked on by the default "OS" is a red flashlight mode, which with the IPS screen is a moot point anyways, since the black pixels when turned on make for a low-light flashlight anyways, heh. A hardware drawback that ironically makes it a more accessible tool in my experience.
I still find that HTMX et al. have weird tooling. I get so much value out of a debugger, especially with event handling, and getting a weird mystery Alpine/HTMX/Hotwire call stack back is kind of weird.

Still though, I like it in theory. JSX still feels closer to an “ideal” syntax to me, even if there’s a lot to complain about there as well.
This seems a great excuse to blame Instead of procrastination to me.. So 70% revenue was not enough to get something off the ground?
Assuming this ruling stands, and the pattern is extended to Apple as well, what does a multi-app-store world look like? How does one "install" a new app store, what sort of permissions does it get? Who can start a new app store? What risks does a user accept when they do business with a 3rd party store?

I for one would welcome a mobile store from Valve, Epic etc, especially if I could have my purchases work on multiple mobile platforms.
The plane isn't a 500mph missile at that point, and law enforcement still have easy access.

It's not overly difficult to handle APU and engine startup on a modern plane, but there's still a bunch of other obstacles to overcome, wheel chocks, etc. And you're presumably not going to have a compliant tug to push you back (you can technically push back yourself with reverse thrust, but that's a whole thing unto itself).
> After getting spanked by DHS OIG in 2017ish

I'd love to read more about this, but a quick google search didn't bring up much. Any good sources?
We learned in the Epic v. Apple trial that Apple cut sweetheart deals with Netflix and other companies as well. Am I missing how this is different?
It's always leg day in Chief Justice Alito's kangaroo court.
In response to a very impressive set of LLM open weights released today from Mistral AI called "Mixtral 8x7B", I was reminded of this amazing publication on the origin of "sparse mixture of experts" from none other than Geoffrey Hinton and Jeff Dean.

The Sparse Mixture of Experts neural network architecture is actually an absolutely brilliant move here.
It scales fantastically, when you consider that (1) GPU RAM is way too expensive, in financial dollars, (2) SSD / CPU RAM are relatively cheap, and (3) you can have "experts" running on their own computers, i.e. it's a natural distributed computing partitioning strategy for neural networks.

I did my M.S. thesis on large-scale distributed deep neural networks in 2013 and can say that I'm delighted to point out where this came from.

In 2017, it emerged from a Geoffrey Hinton / Jeff Dean / Quoc Le publication called "Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer".

Here is the abstract: "The capacity of a neural network to absorb information is limited by its number of parameters. Conditional computation, where parts of the network are active on a per-example basis, has been proposed in theory as a way of dramatically increasing model capacity without a proportional increase in computation. In practice, however, there are significant algorithmic and performance challenges. In this work, we address these challenges and finally realize the promise of conditional computation, achieving greater than 1000x improvements in model capacity with only minor losses in computational efficiency on modern GPU clusters. We introduce a Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts layer (MoE), consisting of up to thousands of feed-forward sub-networks. A trainable gating network determines a sparse combination of these experts to use for each example. We apply the MoE to the tasks of language modeling and machine translation, where model capacity is critical for absorbing the vast quantities of knowledge available in the training corpora. We present model architectures in which a MoE with up to 137 billion parameters is applied convolutionally between stacked LSTM layers. On large language modeling and machine translation benchmarks, these models achieve significantly better results than state-of-the-art at lower computational cost."

So, here's a big A.I. idea for you: what if we all get one of these sparse Mixture of Experts (MoEs) that's a 100 GB on our SSDs, contains all of the "outrageously large" neural network insights that would otherwise take specialized computers, and is designed to run effectively on a normal GPU or even smaller (e.g. smartphone)?
The customization section is interesting, though it is missing things such as multiply & conquer, table wrapping, and the mask & jump techniques, but then, you aren't going to find every custom technique covered in any one text. Sine, cosine, and atan, usually used dual interweaving tables that wrapped, and for distance, you could use a short table and a long table that used Manhattan distance to do the lookup depending on whether X > Y or Y > X.

Edit: I see a link to another github on that page to sqrt implementations. I suspect that will make for interesting reading too.
Quick Google says that 20 to 30% of people that try the drug get addicted. So most won't. The worst cases probably just stick out.
Meanwhile, in the US, I was in line behind a 80ish year old lady paying by check at a pharmacy, less than a week ago. I hate the things with a passion.
I'm sure they did their own stuff, but Apple got away with a very nasty one. So I don't think competition law works. Results look completely random, like tossing a coin.
If they even deign to hear it. Do the supremes even know what a smartphone is? I've never seen a more out of touch bunch of people with so much power.
it's not like we have room in the jails either, we still routinely release people due to lack of space
Wait what about apple?
I'd be interested to hear from people in large European cities and whether public drug use and homelessness are as big of an issue there as they are here.

I've only been to a handful of European cities, and none seem to struggle with either to the extent we see in larger cities in the US.
Yeah but the EFF hyperbolizes every single issue, is there a less horrifically biased source to learn about the actual contents of the related bills?
In many US jurisdictions if kill or maim a pedestrian by striking them with your car the police won’t even cite you. This assumes you do not flee the scene and are not intoxicated. Some criminals do flee the scene and claim they thought they struck a deer.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, on the one hand monopolies are obviously very anti consumer, but I do see Google's point of securing the already questionable appStore.
But surely there's a happy medium in there to simply allow 3rd party payment processing?
My answer to most of this is that you want to limit how much feature flags actually cover. My ideal : feature flags cove just the very last mile of a feature. So it would just cover displaying a feature to people, for example. The "testing gap" being limited to visibility helps a lot.

Of course in the original article there's not much to be said, and I would have probably shipped the "handle the new header" functionality on the server as-is. Feature flags wouldn't really help! But there are so many things where feature flags have been helpful.

The main point is that you want feature flags to help control usage, but really new features that would use them should do their best to not look at the flag inside of the business logic, because that's the stuff that's brittle.
> I'm dealing with a very serious addict in my life right now and how "clean" the drug is makes no difference. They steal and lie non-stop. They cause massive amounts of anxiety and stress to people who love them.

There are plenty of people who fit this description, and heroin isn't the root cause of their problem. It's just a symptom of a deeper problem. For every person like this, there's someone who dabbles with heroin/etc and still goes to work every day and has a healthy relationship with their family.
I am very much in the “anti-WFH” camp, in the sense that I would never work for a company that is primarily remote.

I would gladly sign up for a 4 day work week. In fact, a 4 day in-office hybrid model would be perfect. As long as the work place policy involves no meetings or messages on that single remote day.
It looks like the world before app stores. Anybody can develop software and sell it to anyone, who can then install it on any compatible device.
Since the post links to the verge article and everyone here keeps mentioning the Apple trial, here’s a link to the epic and Apple lawsuit verdict: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/12/22667694/epic-v-apple-tri...
If the profitability situation is about to change, seems like a poor time to reveal killer ideas.
If it's criminalized there's no way to go and no way to control things. So that's definitely not the right way.

Decriminalization is thus accidentally necessary to gain a better control of the situation, but then you do need to actually seize control of the situation. There need to be institutions to help get people away from drugs.
>Macros are stories written, not in vimscript, but in the language of Vim itself.

Last year I hit upon the idea that vim's commands are like a bytecode that my brain outputs and vim interprets. I guess that's true of any editor UI, but it just feels more appropriate in the vi case.
The current version looks like a great solution, because it's so basic.

You risk adding too many features (and cost) in the next version.

A cell modem is going to require certification and of course a separate sim-card/data plan. Do they need USB unless they have a computer already? And speakers? Is this to play the radio while tending shop? I'm sure even the most illiterate can still read numbers, so TTS would be just a gimmick IMHO.
It does though, if your argument is that the advertising was targeted at kids. Is the argument here that, by virtue of being on a stream about a video game, the advertising is necessarily therefore targeting kids?

Because that's only the case if video games are for kids. If they're not for kids, which is all I hear when I talk to an adult about video games, then it's harder to draw the clear bright line some folks here seem to presume. Or are we now saying adults shouldn't be allowed to gamble too?
Prohibition increased alcohol-related deaths and created a black-market of products so much worse than the regulated market before or after[0]. I would say that, in fact, prohibition did not work.

And neither does current drug prohibition. Fentanyl deaths are directly caused by the black-market supply of drugs in the US, and it isn't "decriminalized" cities like Portland that are leading these charts[1]. The current drug prohibition just means that the demand that will always exist is being supplied by mis-dosed poison instead of a well-regulated market like modern alcohol (and marijuana in some states).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_of_Prohibition
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
Given how utterly insane US road laws are I’m not in the least surprised.
People complain about credit card fees in the range of 2%. 30% lost to the ether could absolutely kill some otherwise profitable ideas in the crib.
Honestly I don’t care either (about the 4chan connection anyway), but it’s a fun fact I like to roll out which surprises people

Also his rimworld mods are indefensible. A Kenosha mod about “peaceful protest” where exclusively black pawns continuously attack your colony? That’s racist bro! It’s only flown under the radar because rimworld is played mostly by individuals with ASD.
> Well we all better stop flying and driving if we’re set out to reduce human suffering.

No, we're better off regulating safety, setting increasingly strict pollution and mileage standards, and continuing to update laws to eliminate behaviors such as DUI or texting to continue to have those freedoms while limiting externalities.
This is going to age me but a client CEO drank the CORBA kool-aid aid and insisted on a CORBA interface with a vendor famous for lock-in and their underlying database not being open. The implementation essentially returned the entire DB in its byzantine format without a decoder ring.
Europe prepares to ban 'unacceptable' AI
From what I remember wasn't it just drama for the sake of drama and general fearmongering?

The radioactive water that was released was treated and diluted, to have a radioactivity way below what is allowed and safe for ocean release. The release was not exceptional, neither for Fukushima nor for the many other nuclear power plans that do similar water release.

China especially routinely releases water from its nuclear power plant with higher tritium concentration than Fukushima.

Ex of discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/169ekpv/gener...
to me it seems like you need a strongly enforced social norm that doesn't include all the worst bits of drug abuse (crime, public defecation, graffiti, other public nuisance/problem things) regardless of whether you legalize and regulate or make it extremely illegal. My preference would be for legalize and regulate and social order enforcement because it would cause a lot less misery but I don't see how this works if people are going to be allowed to leave needles everywhere, routinely vandalize and break into cars and buildings, etc. We should have never gotten rid of the enforcement aspect for the bad behavior when we we getting rid of the criminal aspect of the drug use.
Thank you for your feedback.

1) Will look it up
2) I will fix the issue with penny stocks.
3) Will add it to the dividend calendar
I've been using the Safari Web App for Slack and it's a far better experience than the Electron app that Slack distributes. Much smoother, lower battery consumption - just a win overall.