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The definition of monopoly has changed drastically over the course of time and will continue to do so.

Regardless of what you call it, any market vertical that you can define with less than 5 genuine competitors invariably winds up being anti-consumer and needs to get broken up.

Apple is the focus here, but Google is no better and neither is Microsoft. Search, messaging, email, video--all of these are easily definable market verticals.

All of these need to get broken up until we have at least a half-dozen competing companies in those spaces.

This isn't limited to tech. Grocery store chains, industrial suppliers, financial companies, etc. all need to get smacked with the same breakup stick--especially if we want not just to not only stomp out anti-consumer behavior but also to have genuine supply chain resilience.
So is the claim that any DE with a top bar and launcher icons looks like MATE? Or because you can customize MATE, that it's just like every other DE?

Makes no sense.
I've got ADHD and work hard to keep my tabs under control. As soon as they get too small to read (at least part of) the title, I lose the ability to keep track of what I've got open, so there's no value in keeping them open. That threshold is about 20 tabs per window, and at most about 4 windows, and ideally closer to 5 tabs each in 2 windows, when things are under control.
What an odd and unique view on history. The founding fathers routinely enjoyed imported bananas, and the economy depended on cotton exports.
Yes, with minor changes. A few variables need to be renamed, a few cast need to be added. Some churn for sure on such big codebase, but doable nevertheless.
GCC did it, other projects did it, I don't see why the kernel can't.
Supabase Auth is only authentication; it doesn't do organizations, permissions/RBAC, impersonation, etc. We are working on some fancy Postgres connectors to let you use Stack Auth with the DB part of Supabase and RLS.

GoTrue and Permify are on a lower abstraction level than us; we connect the entire stack (from frontend to database), while GoTrue and Permify still require a lot of setup and manual integrations.
I do wonder if the unavailability of some of the security features and -- possibly a big deal for some applications -- the accelerated floating point on the RISC-V cores would skew that experiment, though.
Kubernetes isn't even that complicated, and first party support from cloud providers often means you're doing something in K8s inleu of doing it in a cloud specific way (like ingress vs cloud specific load balancer setups).

At a certain scale, K8s is the simple option.

I think much of the hate on HN comes from the "ruby on rails is all you need" crowd.
Definitely could attract talent, not only is stable job but it is green fields with flexibility to choose your own technologies and build something ground up.

Most engineers don't love joining a giant co. and using tech we are not fond of.
The biodegradable plastic straws are very common at fast food restaurants in the US in places with straw bans (Seattle for me).

There are some issues with some of the brands, but generally they're fine.
Works for me in Firefox 128.0.3 (64-bit) on Linux Mint.
Looking forward to it. I've long wondered about porting palmos to a new device of some kind and giving it an eink screen, at least while acting as a monochrome palm like i had when growing up. I think it'd be a magical combo given the old slow lcds that they used to have back then in the first play.
It's a viral marketing campaign for the next season of Black Mirror.
Only report I saw on it was that Intel said they have tested working 18A chips.
"Don't learn it" is generally bad advice for anyone seeking knowledge. Your suggestion will also lead to missing important edge cases where matches may incorrectly hit or miss on unexpected inputs. The basics of regex are really not that difficult to grasp anyways
I think you're looking to much at the practice, and too little at the framing.

The point is not that the structure of a quest works better. The point is that the framing of a quest works better. It inspires, it acknowledges there will be adversity, and thus makes adversity feel like much less of a setback.
Productivity is a mixed bag. Some people do better, some worse. Some companies are missing small but important systems to enable productivity with remote work.

My anecdote is that my in-office colleagues are less productive than they used to be when they were WFH. Mostly less motivated to do the asynchronous communication parts of the job, like code reviews, and scrolling their phones at their desk more. Also cutting work hours short, often through long breaks with their jacket hanging on their chair.

As for why not India or Europe, that's been tried and failed for coming on thirty years now. Timezones, language, culture all make it much less cost efficient than it sounds like.
We are coming up on 7 years since the first Ryzen chip. In 7 years AMD went from very behind to a little behind then on-par and finally now market leader. The fact Intel let this happen in such a short time frame is a bit mind boggling.
> I now feel not only that I don’t like determinants but that I’m allergic even to matrices

Determinants are totally basis-invariant, however, similar matrices have the same determinant.
I've literally been building this right now, currently doing E2E tests! Should be done by end of the week. (and it'll be free for everyone)
> Hey do you have hip pain when walking down the stairs? Turns out this is extremely common and we solved it with this special walking stick. Click here to buy the walking stick"

This is where a forward thinking marketer would say "we have a database of email addresses of people reporting hip problems, how much will you pay me for access to them?", aka what Google did.
>They are non-solutions if they cannot pass voter approval.

Then why don't voters just vote themselves higher salaries and better pension plans and higher retirement ages? D'uh! Who cares about economics when you have votes? Worked well for Greece.

>But what are you talking about exactly?

Reducing public welfare according to realistic economic capacity and sustainability of the national budget, and encourage citizens to rely more on private systems and personal responsibility. See Switzerland.
That is a hard question because there are so many ways that one can understand regex. I learned how to read and use them using Unix tools like sed, but I think that my path to starting to understand them probably began with papers like "Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast" by Russ Cox (https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html), well after feeling like I was pretty good at using them.

Then, as an expert in linguistic morphology, I started learning about things like subregular languages, as talked about in works such as Aural Pattern Recognition Experiments and the Subregular Hierarchy, by Rogers and Pullum (https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~jrogers/JoLLI.pdf). And I continue to wonder what the relationship is between these classes of languages and word formation.
I agree. I feel the quality of the article leaves something to be desired knowing that semiconductors are purchased by so many different players. Feels like a hit piece.
The ancestry information in Tree Style Tabs (and also with Orion's built-in vertical tabs) is an undersold feature, I think. Edge has vertical tabs and they're not terribly useful. You get a constant-sized click target, which is a huge UX bump over Chrome's shrinking targets, but having trees of tabs is amazingly useful for organization.

I hadn't really thought about the side-by-side window thing, though, so I'll keep that in mind when debating vertical tabs. I usually run with a multi-monitor and while I do side-by-side with i3, that's on a large monitor so screen real estate isn't a problem.
Big day for my team (Pigweed)! Some of our work got mentioned in the main RP2350/Pico2 announcement [1] but for many months we've been working on a new end-to-end SDK [2] built on top of Bazel [3] with support for both RP2040 and RP2350, including upstreaming Bazel support to the Pico SDK. Our new "Tour of Pigweed" [4] shows a bunch of Pigweed features working together in a single codebase, e.g. hermetic builds, on-device unit tests, RPC-centric comms, factory-at-your-desk testing, etc. We're over in our Discord [5] if you've got any questions

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new...

[2] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/08/introducing-pigwee...

[3] https://blog.bazel.build/2024/08/08/bazel-for-embedded.html

[4] https://pigweed.dev/docs/showcases/sense/

[5] https://discord.gg/M9NSeTA
There are companies out there (full disclosure, I work for one[1]) that create and maintain custom software for companies such as yours, including websites. They work with you to make sure you have exactly what you need. That direction may prove more effective than trying to bring tech talent onboard.

[1]: https://www.miriamtech.com/
BRI is certainly not a home run, and is basically playing the same game as the World Bank or other development initiatives, but without global oversight. It's track record is decidedly mixed, and usually favors Chinese interests.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman -- but this time using Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

> The truth seems to lie somewhere between these last two reasons. In recent years, there have been an increasing number of reports from BRI partner countries about construction flaws in major infrastructure projects, project cancelations initiated by BRI partner countries due to concerns over corruption and debt, project cancelations initiated by Chinese companies due to financial problems, and projects that have led to nowhere (in some cases, literally – such as a BRI-funded railway that ends in the middle of a field in Kenya).

https://www.cfr.org/blog/rise-and-fall-bri
For a while it was like that, but after the ex-Honeywell CEO was replaced, and with New Glenn flight hardware becoming increasingly more common to see being moved around and tested, they do seem to be approaching being a serious space company.
Historians of science would be interested in the topic as would those studying the sociology of scientific communities. In this day of rampant pseudoscience and distrust of scientists it is of interest to know if and how fellow scientists were snookered.

Intelligence agencies like to study and understand the propagation of false information.
But for every business the chase seems to fail in finding worth. I can already tell you from where I am working we are struggling because eventually data is too old to be good or too incomplete. We need at least 3-4 years of collecting and storing the information to make full use of AI.
Grandiose narcissism... I think we know some other celebrity CEOs who behave the same way today.
> I remain unconvinced.

Was there something we were supposed to convince you of?

> what if the product in question was literally snake oil? Is that still justifiable as marketing because they're making a promise about it which someone wants to hear?

The discussion is about advertising preying on insecurities, not marketing in general. If we assume snake oil were to be advertised, is there some reason to prefer: "Snake Oil: The miracle cure-all!" over "Your bad breath is scaring off the girl of your dreams. Cure it with Snake Oil!"?

If yes, why is the latter less preferable? Is it because it calls attention to a real problem someone might want to solve? Does that continue to hold if we assume snake oil truly is a miracle cure-all that eliminates bad breath?
This would prolong not shorten the process…
German welfare state is worth paying it, it just needs to become more efficient. I don’t miss lower taxes I enjoyed in other countries, because I see the difference. And, anyway, high taxes hit upper middle class the most, for majority of population it’s not the biggest concern — rent is.
> Apple buys a far larger share of smartphone and computer semiconductors, given that it accounts for half of global smartphones sales and earns 85% of all smartphones

I feel like I'm getting trolled by the author who is citing sales and profits instead of units produced as a metric.
Last fall I almost missed my ferry because my train up to Hamburg was so delayed that it missed my connection to Kiel, and my backup connection pulled out just as my arriving train was stopping.

I knew things were getting bad in Germany so I had planned for enough time for a secondary backup. It left on time, but kept getting slower and slower. Then they announced that due to rail works, there was a bus from Neumünster to Kiel.

At Neumünster, I instead got a taxi, which (thanks to all the taxes going to the Autobahn instead of rails, I presume), got me to the ferry with a peak speed of 150kph, and 10 minutes before loading ended - some four hours after I had planned to be there.
Exactly, this is my thinking as well; I've mentioned the recursive concept in another comment before.

And I suspect the question of free will is not resolvable until the hard problem of consciousness is solved. The cells in our bodies may not have free will, but we might. The issue involves characterizing what exactly does or does not have free will, which is bound up with the question of consciousness.
Excuse my ignorance - even if just a rethorical question: Is this not punishable? Isn't there some body aggrieved parties could report this too for sanctions?

Even if through negligence - even through merely their (Chinese) "de-emphasizing" care about the amount of debris they generate - this could very well be a strategy to make it harder for everyone else to compete ...
This is a pretty disappointing article with some very questionable examples.

The Imagination Technology example in particular is poor since they were a supplier of intellectual property, not physical goods. So Apple’s usage of them as a supplier had limited bearing on the firm’s other customers or lack thereof. Similarly, the ban of Apple Watches over IP theft has nothing to do with the supply chain issues that the authors attempted to outline.

The thesis is also all over the place. The title indicates the problem is semiconductors, but then lots of the arguments have to do with suppliers outside of semiconductors. If Apple’s reliance on TSMC is the big problem, then why isn’t even mentioned that TSMC is the only competitive fab on cutting edge nodes?

Lastly, the overarching theme is severely misguided. All of these supply chain dealings are as old as semiconductors themselves. When the industry moved towards targeting consumer electronics in the 70s, semiconductor manufacturing moved out of the US long before Apple was relevant. And if Apple weren’t a powerhouse of consumer electronics today, other companies would be doing the same things. It’s just part of the nature of trying to manufacture and sell mass market electronics.
HERACY!

These people are rewarded for publishing.

Fuller was over the top in many ways, yet one cannot have witnessed a remnant of his works (Biosphere 2 "lungs") and deny his substance was genius. Whatever his essentricities the man delivered on vision.

He is cited commonly in a dozen ways to this day. I still say "trim tab".

This so called intellectual is the jealous fraud.
> But I find an article that doesn't even address any other companies a little hard to swallow. Are other companies simply not able to "reshore" chip fabs?

I urge you to look at the earnings of some of the most popular chip manufacturers and then look at the earnings of apple (also ignore nvidia as it is an obvious outlier). Creating a modern chip fab takes A LOT of money and is simply impossible when some of the most popular semi companies struggle to even make a small profit. TSMC's fabless business model allows many chip companies to share the capital investment required, but apple just straight up has the money to make the investments but choose not too. Also it would be quite scary if apple is allowed that type of vertical integration.
I hate Bazel. A build system for C/C++ should not require a Java JVM. Please keep Java out of microcontroller ecosystem please -__--
I thought the same based on the title, but the article feels different. The theme system is about making a commitment, and making failure harder to prevent demoralization, and promote adaptibility. Quests, as presented here, still have a measurable goal, they are specific. That should never be the case with a yearly theme.
I really like to code, as well as being reviewed or doing code reviews. However, when I try to do code reviews, most of the time I receive comments like 'We do not have time' or 'We can fix it later' or 'This task is just a bug fix'. The problems isn't about caring; I care about the code I write, but when you care, it takes time. When you need time to do things right, this isn't reflected in your performance. I experimented with being like others who don't care much and just do the task as needed, no more. Then I realized improvements in my performance :D.
How is that average calculated though? If everyone switches from buying the $40k Camry to the $85k F150, prices didn't have to change for the "average price of a new car" to increase. This isn't a dismissal since we can compare every model year to the previous and see an increase YoY in prices without serious improvements to the underlying product. We have also seen everyone going from sedans to trucks though.

>It would mean financial ruin to borrow two-thirds of your income for a car. The automakers have forgotten Henry Ford's lesson. He payed his workers enough so they could each afford the products he was selling.

I agree but the problem is that business owners don't like how much money comes from that system and prefer competing for people's lines of credit, because an economy where everyone has $40k in debt literally has more money sloshing around it than one where everyone buys their car outright, and that means more profit, which is the entire goal of every CEO everywhere, so of course every CEO wants you to go into debt for them. Unfortunately, a lot of people can leverage themselves farther than they can actually afford for long enough that some CEO can extract profit before the entire system collapses.

A shitload of profit and CEO salary was made in the run up to 2008, and none of the people who extracted that wealth from the system went to jail, so why are we surprised they're trying to do it again?

Scientology managed to distill this down to the bones; They simply had people sign up for credit cards and max them out buying scientology stuff. Since the penalty for debt goes to the people who took it, instead of the place the money the debt went, there's infinite incentive to do this. CEOs look at that system and get extremely jealous.
Yep and ossified control structures aren't exactly known for being flexible and well run in the long term. A permanent ruling class will almost certainly lead to a major collapse at some point, bringing down all of that fancy technology with it.
Researchers Claim Long-Lost Technology Used to Build Iconic Pyramid of Djoser
I think the point of open cuda is to run it on non NVIDIA gpus. Once you have to buy NVIDIA gpus what’s the point. If we had true you competition I think it would be far easier to buy devices with more vram and thus we might be able to run llama 405b someday locally.

Once you already bought the NVIDIA cards what’s the point
Potential downsides to getting fired vs quitting:

* Company may deem you ineligible for future re-hire
* You may have lost the opportunity to have a good reference
* Lack of control of timing
* Embarrassing call with manager/HR

I don't see what upside there is to getting fired deliberately? In my location you aren't eligible for unemployment benefits if you are fired for cause.
https://archive.ph/Rt6QJ
The key difference is corporations are managed top down by competent actors that understand the market, and there's consequence to mismanagement.
Fun thing is, most of these semis end up in the trash because apple puts roadblocks on reuse!
This doesn't even remotely address anything anyone has said regarding your claim about playing a game with the "mouse's firmware". At least you're now aware of how ridiculous it sounds, but clearly you don't care so long as you believe you could win this in some imaginary court case.
As part of learning Perl in 1999.

I only used the bare minimum for years.

I also hung out on a #regex IRC channel, so I got exposed to questions and answers by many people.

Later I read up on https://www.regular-expressions.info/ which has a lot of very good explanations.

The #regex IRC channel had an IRC bot with a quiz with 28 levels.

All sensibility ended after level 14 or so. At that point it was just "how deep does the PCRE rabbit-hole go?"

But there was a lot of useful, non-trivial stuff, too. Most specifically, look-aheads/lookbehinds, non-greedy matching, back-references, named capture-groups, character classes, anchors,

When I learned jq, I went much the same way: Started hanging out on #jq IRC channels and started trying to answer jq questions on StackOverflow. Sadly, I got outperformed the first six months, until it finally clicked.
Neoliberalism is judged by its successes or failures.
Top jam bands do quite well, but most are not played on the radio. Phish, Dave Matthews, Dead and Company. Up-and-comers Billy Strings and Goose appear to be following the pattern. But like many things content-wise, the outliers get the majority of the money. These are the outliers.
Why do you say Musk is a genius? Because he has purchased large, sexy tech companies?
From the FAQ:

> When will I receive my enemy?

> your enemy is already on its way. do not be alarmed.
I wouldn’t call promoting obvious propaganda from the leader of a far right political party a little thing, particularly given the context (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_riots ). Like, the most charitable possible interpretation is that he is _extremely_ gullible, to the point that he’s incompetent to have a platform at all and should have his tweets reviewed by a grown-up.
What? Or course taking notes on a casual conversation is weird, let alone recording it. Of course "writing audio in the sound chip buffer" is not the same thing as "storing audio and data mining it", let along the same as "a brain listening to it".

>A-ha but technically...

No please don't, this is not engaging in good faith.
That would be a great combo.-
> It does have to walk the locals and the globals scopes

right, this is what I meant.
Would've been cool for safety applications if the second core could be run in lockstep mode.
Makes sense. Yep, we can support that — just shoot me a message if you end up needing this (konsti (at) stack-auth.com).