neolithic's comments

On: Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

[neolithic]

"Four years ago, a few months after President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, Apple announced an “acceleration” of its U.S. investments, pledging to spend $430 billion and add 20,000 jobs over five years. In January 2018, during Mr. Trump’s first term, the company said that its “direct contribution to the U.S. economy” would be $350 billion over five years and that it planned to create 20,000 jobs over that period. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment."

Is this just lip service? What happened to those previous investments?

[htrp → neolithic]

they are all counted as part of this 500bn?

[ghaff → htrp]

This happens all the time with large investments in $X that make for impressive sounding press releases. If you (can) dig into the details, invariably a lot of the money is in previously committed/spent allocations in a whole bunch of different buckets (or, per bombcar's sibling comment, money that may never be spent at all).

[bombcar → htrp]

I think the question is "have they done anything" or do they just keep promising to do something someday?

On: What makes EDI so hard?

[neolithic]

We're a small business looking into EDI with some of our suppliers, but are finding the pricing quite painful for our level of business when talking to some service providers. Which service providers do you see as arcane and costly?

[iask → neolithic]

SPS, Truecommerce etc. If you need advise or guidance drop me a message.

[neolithic → iask]

Funny, those are the 2 companies we were speaking to. Would appreciate some advice/guidance, but I'm at a loss as to how I drop you a message here — doesn't seem DM'ing is possible on HN?

[iask → neolithic]

Connect with me via devsaikan ~the google mail~

On: Google Open Source Code Search

[neolithic]

I find this extremely frustrating as well, across the various Google services I use.

On: People Are Turning Their Instagram Accounts into Bots

[neolithic]

The problem is that Instagram incentivizes this sort of behaviour by greatly-diminishing the reach of those companies/users that have legitimately built their followers. I mean we see 10% reach of our followers (if we're lucky) with any of our posts. That means 90% of our real followers don't get to see our posts that they have asked to see (by following our account).

On: IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients

[neolithic]

what was the exact mix, if you don't me asking?

[rjeli → neolithic]

In the fasting world this is “snake juice”

“take around 4700 mg of potassium per day max 2000 up to 3000 mg of sodium per day max” into a liter of water for a full day’s worth

On: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

[neolithic]

What's today's equivalent to WASTE? Especially on a Mac. How do people securely (encrypted) share files between themselves?

Edit: Can't find a mac client/server of WASTE. And some of those download links seem to be down.

On: Revelations about the French Big Brother

[neolithic]

Was this leaked by Snowden? If so, it might explain why France blocked the Bolivian president's plane from using French airspace.

[zumth → neolithic]

They do not mention sources, but I'd say it is some sort of open secret which is known by a lot of journalists. They mention that this officially does not exist, and from off-the-record talks, it does not exist because it's "secret défense".

[_djo_ → neolithic]

From what I've heard, no. This isn't a Snowden leak, it's the result of a journo sitting on information and having an opportune moment to publish.

This isn't the first exposé of the French government's communication surveillance either. There have been quite a few articles on this over the past few years.

[pivnicek → neolithic]

It is some coincidence for this to come out the day after the airspace fiasco.