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Would it stop absurd transportation of goods like exotic fruits all year long ?

If people stopped buying things from far away that aren't really really necessary, maybe that will also reduce fuel use.
> Are users expected to install and find out?

When I was looking into switching from Gogs to Gitea, that is exactly what they expected you to do. I recall there being an issue saying that they won't compare the two because it's hard to keep up-to-date.

Which is a stupid excuse, considering it's supposed to be a community-based fork instead of run by one person.
It is much easier and better mandate a physical address during a forced registration.

At that point, it's quite easy to inform EU residents that they are unable to continue do to regulations rather than rely on some type of spoofed IP or VPN
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I’d rather take a higher chance of survivable failure than a lower chance of certain death. Fault tolerance is better than being brittle and trying to never fail.

But I’m just a software guy so this is just uninformed opinion!
> But the win probability will always be >0.5 so long as the "prior" probability distribution has a nonzero probability of being between Alice's two numbers.

I'm not sure if that always holds true. Let's say Alice flips a coin and picks 3 or 4 for num1, then Alice flips another coin and picks either num1 - 2 or num1 + 2 for num2.

You come along and pick a number between 1 and 6. You have a non-zero chance of having picked a number between Alice's two numbers, but your chances of winning are not > 0.5.

If you picked a number between 2 and 5 though, your chances of winning are now > 0.5. Like jstanley said, you'd have to know how Alice picks numbers in order to win in the long run.
I think it is far more comprehensive, based on being a student in the one semester version and thrice a TF in the two semester version.
Yeah, that's a typo. Sorry about that.
Please provide constructive feedback on the docs issue tracker, or even better create pull requests to improve the documentation.

Everything including the website, documentation, blog, Hugo theme and so on is public available and also opensource.
(Good suggestion, but the iPad4 iOS 10.3 does not support split-screen apps.)
This is a cool idea, but I imagine this isn't legal, right? Creating an actual business out of this would have to require buy-in from the content creators
This is somewhat my fear too. But, I can't say it would put me off entirely. Special Relativity could easily be dismissed with a few simple contradictions until you look at it closer and realize there's a reconciliation. QM itself is also fairly hairy beyond very specific ideal cases, yet it's the most successful scientific theory in history.

Maybe you could start off with some idealizations (a la particle in a 1D box) and perhaps some interesting limits arise. And maybe those limits could be extended statistically. Or not.
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As someone who has never used iMessage, can you expand on what specifically makes iMessage hard to leave?

Do you lose your past conversations? Do you lose your contacts? Or is it simply that you lose the extra features and are back to simple base "sms"?
For it to be a competitive "moat" (a forbidding competitive advantage), don't they have to be making money? As an asset class, venture capital has comparatively pitiful performance.

The top VCs --- the ones that actually generate reliable market-beating returns --- certainly have a "moat": the best dealflow. But that's unrelated to the snark from the comment upthread.
What did you plan to do when the publishers terminated your accounts for sharing credentials?
Tesla plans on spending a lot less CapEx in the future compared to last quarter, so they won't burn through as much money.
Physical health is the easy part, imho. I'd be interested to hear tips about upkeeping a mentally healthy mind and social life. Though, of course, a solid foundation for mental health is physical health.
"most fast and break things"
Then it will probably be made free for iOS soon (as data collection will probably be their model).

Time for me to start looking for another podcasting app...
I'm talking specifically about new grad salaries. It's not public information, but perusing glassdoor, H1B, acquaintances, that type of thing. I thought FAANG all adjust for location, with Bay Area being at the top. Is there any evidence that starting salaries are the same regardless of location?

It isn't in London compared to the Bay Area, nor was it in Chicago when I lived there, based on people I knew at some of those companies. This is the first time I've heard that starting salaries are identical regardless of location. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
That sounds like a kernel of something profound, but leaves one hanging. Can you elaborate?
That was a painless installation. Seriously, this is something to immitate if you mean for your self-hosted application to be widely used.

If only other self-hosted/distributed projects were this easy to install. I skiped on discourse, mastodon, gitlab, etc. because they were all pain to setup on a base linux system.
Heya everyone, cofounder of the project here. Thank you so much for the Kubeflow community for helping us reach this milestone! Our goal was to get the base level packages all wired up and let anyone start a machine learning project anywhere Kubernetes runs in just a few set of commands.

Please let us know if you have any thoughts or what you'd like us to work on next!

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I hate stationary bikes. Out of all of the classes I taught when I was a fitness instructor, indoor cycling was the one I liked least. There is only so much variety you can do safely on a stationary bike.

I also don't like biking outdoors I can't imagine biking in the streets with all of the distracted drivers. At least you can legally jog on the sidewalk.

Besides if you want something that gives you a good cardio workout without the stress on your body of running and you want to work out in doors, you might as well get an elliptical.
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Sure, it's in the first line:

> the extraterritorial reach, and the absurd maximum fines that can indeed be assessed for a first, single violation

As I said in my comment, I don't think those are big issues if you comply with the law (and 99% of the law is common sense or was already in place in most countries), but they are points that a lawyer might indeed have brought up.
Which is an interesting issue that I have thought about recently. There are tons of services like this.

One analog of this phenomenon are loss leader products in retail. Loss leaders in grocery stores (sometimes produce or in the case of Costco, hotdogs and soda for $1.50). Loss leaders have been responsible for putting lots of small businesses out of business.

When enormous companies offer products for free, that others charge for, it makes me wonder where it all ends. Many internet companies have been put out of business by free services offered by the bigger guys.

A similar issue is the endless supply of people or businesses willing to take a loss on their product, either because they have VC money, some other revenue source, or because they are just ignorant. Google was able to lose money on YouTube for the better part of a decade, for example.

I once had a thriving business buying items at US postal auctions for resale. But the get rich quick bloggers eventually found out about the auctions and then, for years, an endless supply of clueless suckers just kept showing up and paying above MSRP for things like MacBooks and other high end electronics. Ya, they would lose their shirts, and never come back, but there were always fresh meat each month to do the same thing. So most of us that were actually making money previously, had to move on to other things.

It seems like this phenomenon could become more proliferated as some of these core internet companies get larger and larger.
People will pay you wildly differing amounts for the same work.

People will lie to you about what you have to do to get paid more. They may claim you are not good enough to try to con both you as an individual and labor as a group into working for less. They can't hide from the invisible hand. Look out for phrases like "next year", "next quarter", "maybe", "if", or "try". These are synonyms for no and never. Those people are wasting your time, and no they aren't entitled to your time.

Whatever you think someone is capable of paying it's usually more, but that is not the same as them being willing to pay. You need to learn the levers. You may need to maneuver into position years in advance. What you are doing now leads to what happens next which leads to what happens after. You need to create as much of your own luck as you can. Your time is valuable and irreplaceable so put in the effort to make sure you are using it as best you can.

There is a middle ground being making a lot of money and doing unpleasant work and that middle ground is a lot of money and the more money you make the better the work tends to be with one exception being the startup greenfield project experience.

One way to make a lot of money is as an owner/founder of something. Risk adjusted it's not all it's cracked up to be IMO. It's also the most work to start. It's a lifestyle choice as much as anything.
One of the most powerful forces is compounding interest.
The music industry as a whole. Who owns what song, what percentage, what role (writer, publisher), who recorded it, who collects for which industry, who collects mechanical royalties, performance royalties, would I make more money with ascap, bmi, sesac or gmr? How about this publisher, vs this other one? Tell me how often the music I own is played on radio, spotify, etc. Was my royalty here calculated correctly?
It probably depends on the type of product.

Few Options:
1. Friends, Family, Colleagues etc. Although, I do not prefer this option, as friends and known colleagues tend to be sugar coat their feedback, and that is not something you want.

2. One of them right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

3. If you can showcase your product on KickStarter or other crowd funding - brilliant, as it also kind of proves people will be willing to pay for your product in future.

4. Meetup Groups etc, walk into these groups, if you find people who would fall into your target profile. Do not hesitate to politely ask, if they would like to have a look.

5. If you have a target list, offer them free access, with a concise email or some other medium.

tl;dr: Anywhere you can see right people, offer.
"mitchty" on Lobste.rs told me I should just read the source material from Wadler instead of the various metaphors and tutorials. Since jxub posted it here, I figured I'd go ahead and try. I'll admit Wadler did a terrific job trying to explain it. I don't get it after one read from imperative background. It does seem a lot more clear, though, than many attempts to dumb the material down. He gives useful examples in both functional and imperative styles. We see why imperative makes some things easier, exactly why they're harder in functional style, and then how monad form solves that problem.

The monad itself is still weird. That we have different examples, application, and definitions are a good combo that might help it click if I think on it more just going through the steps of his examples or similar programs. Might help to learn functional programming first esp to get used to things like let/binding which he draws on. Although he avoids reliance on category theory and Haskell, he still might expect people to know basics of functional programming given how he describes it. So, a good paper like this may reduce the problem down to (a) learn functional programming or, if time-constrained folks are lucky, (b) find a few tutorials on just the concepts he uses here done in ways that imperative programmers can approach. Lambda's, binding, and typing seem to be the core operators on top of functions and expressions that we're familiar with. I say typing since types work differently in various languages. Gotta understand how he's using types along with their interactions with those examples and monads.
Evidence is that horses were domesticated (on the Eurasian Steppe) for meat and milk before they were ever ridden.

So you're probably right that the behaviours that made them docile enough to ride emerged over quite a long time.
But, how is this not a flagrant violation of basically everybody's TOS, and illegal in its own right?
I've built a few Electron apps now, one of which I use quite a bit to track ticket prices in secondary markets.

It's a great prototyping environment, and people have built businesses around Electron apps (VSCode is built on Electron, I believe). The apps I've built are big, kinda slow, and as others have mentioned tend to eat memory.
This is my issue with most subscriptions too. The price has to be set based on the average use, which makes it really expensive for the infrequent user (and ultimately this means less conversions, yet nobody seems to care about this?!).

I've had the same gripe with games for years. I stopped paying for Xbox live and World of Warcraft because they're the same - if I only played for a few hours in a month, I've paid over-the-odds. I can't predict in a given month how likely I am to have how many hours, so I end up paying them £0. They could get more money out of me if they had a better PAYG or tiering option.
Absolutely, and the fox experiments[1] suggest 40 generations is sufficient. You just have to breed them for it on a consistent basis.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-bes...
Welcome to the economics of ad free websites (for now, at least).

A large percentage of people simply will not pay for website access, no matter how low the price. So you get your money from those who do, who value the service so highly that parting with it would be huge pain point for them, and, so Bloomberg assumes probably after extensive surveys, those who feel that way about their publication, will likely have 35$/month to spare for the privilege.
I've got no sense of direction. Zero. I can get lost in my own office or go the wrong way down a street I've been down 100 times.

Still, I've noticed that because I bike and walk around when I can I'm much more able to get around San Francisco than most of my friends. You just use a much larger and more generalizable set of "clues" to get around. When you use GPS there's no decision making so you never really learn why you turned on Street X not Street Y.
Indeed! Lack of decision making power can cripple a business. When everybody knows that any decision can be spontaneously vetoed, then people stop making decisions, and they also stop believing decisions.

And I think part of what cripples decision making is in fact the fear of opportunity cost, because every decision requires considering an infinite number of alternatives.
Buying things from far away is the point of living in a modern, global economy. You don't get people on your side by telling them they want the wrong things. The way forward is to give people what they want in a sustainable way.

If someone's feet hurt, you don't tell them to lie down for the rest of their lives. You tell them to get better shoes.

Global trade reduces global warfare, too.
i believe that, back in the '80s and '90s, "visionary" economists and politicians saw that US manufacturing was facing a lot of challenges, so they imagined a new world wherein:

1. the US domestic economy would be based on services that would pay just as well as the old manufacturing industry had in the 50's and 60's

2. the US would be the global leader in the "financial industry"

3. the US would be an "ownership society." US investors would reap hefty profits and substantial income from the parts of the world that were industrializing and developing.

but that plan, that vision, has worked rather poorly for the vast majority of US residents.
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We have a local news website that I think has a realistic model. When you view an article with an ad-blocker it shows you a dialog with a variety of options:

1. Whitelist the site

2. "Nah, journalists should go hungry" - this dismisses the popup and lets you read the article with your blocker intact

3. 5c - read the article ad-free

4. 10c - 1 hour of no-ads

5. 30c - 1 day of no-ads

I've converted to US cents, but even in local currency think these prices are extremely reasonable, and I'd love to see more sites offer similar rates
I wonder how you get get a number like "1 in 270" for the acceptable chance of death. It's not a number you'd choose as a starting point in a top-down calculation. It must be a bottom-up calculation from a sum of existing risks. I'd be curious if anyone knows more about it.
It was more like swimming in deep waters - sometimes you get to an area with a big enough opening that you get satellite lock in, get your bearings and can once again “dive”. But not using gps at all was a lot more fun though
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Biggest problem in this is, one size does not fit all.

It is hard to compile a stack - which would be useful for most companies.

Yes, there have been attempts made - for Example, Open Stack. But then I feel, there is always an element of specific technology based on the needs of the product being built.
We're missing out on what you have to share because you're addressing questions asked not by Magee but by a journalist constructing a narrative for the readers of this article, and so we get this dismissive comment. We don't need such dramatized attacks on “wrongness”—we need thoughtful discussion where we stand to learn something substantive. Hacker News readers can handle it.
Seems like bad UX and/or user instruction, really; they should presumably have the device warn of this happening, and tell end users how to turn it back on. For a critical health device like this, having to visit the doctor to be told “have you tried turning it on and off again” doesn’t seem ideal. What if it had been a pacemaker or something?
Yes but do you feel good about that?
At least that's relevant and subdued.

When I go to certain sites like Vox, I see repeated ads for women's clothing (wtf?, I'm a guy) that makeup around 40% of an article AND clickbait to other sites via Taboola.
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I'm often left a bit baffled and frustrated when atheists start off their arguments with coherent and interesting thoughts only to end, what could've been the start of a productive discussion, with snarky and childish remarks.

I, for one, dabble in these questions out of genuine and innate curiosity and I believe others do too. Isn't it then counterproductive to deal in absolutes when the only thing we can be certain of is that we are still quite too ignorant to answer those ultimate questions?

Maybe I am reading too much into your "theology studies that which does not exist", but, again, remarks like these are really off-putting. It is already almost impossible to find discussions in this area that take an exploratory and open-minded approach, and I'd hope that at least forums like these could be free of that.
I'm assuming if you are tracking ticket prices it needs to be connected to the internet, in that case, why do you need an app instead of just a website?
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The poem is also a reference to Wilde's trial.
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I think this is a pretty fair point. Cars are incredibly dangerous to others and many drivers completely disregard that. A 5-star safety rating doesn't mean anything to the pedestrian or cyclist in front of you, but people tend to act like it's no big deal since they themselves are unlikely to be seriously injured.

Risk homeostasis or risk compensation explains this behavior quite well, and I believe it's a very damaging affliction on our car-centric society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
Yes, he is talking about 11 principles that "nobody talks about but should."
viruses transmitted within species could be viewed as part of their host's genotype, regardless of whether their genomes are incorporated into the germ-line. When you catch a cold for instance, you have particles of another human's body inside you replicating
Just because a large percentage won't pay doesn't mean that putting the price high will maximise income. It's possible that at $10/month they'd get 5x the signups.

That said, increasing prices is hard; reducing is easy. If you're trying to figure out sweet spot for max revenue is it probably makes sense to start high and slowly reduce it until you find it. If you're on a rolling monthly payment and decrease everyones prices together, nobody will get upset.
line diffs are easier to think about, i suppose.
Have you figured out a way to bootstrap it without a Mac? I successfully got an image running under Vbox on Fedora, but I had to build the image first on a Mac and then export it as an appliance.

Also, performance was atrocious. It was so bad as to basically make it unusable. 5 second delay before processing mouse and key events.
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Thanks! That's great!
Very like Gogs.

I'm not a fan of Go, but it does lead people into some right decisions, that Ruby and Python lead them away from.

Anyway, the problems start when you want to be sure it's running all the time your server is on, and on integrating it with your other web applications. Still, it's strictly better than interpreted environments.
At the time of this writing, all of the comments here are focused on content, but I want to touch on the author's bit about software:

> It’s not just Bloomberg and media — it’s software too. I used to write everything in Ulysses, a syncing Markdown editor for OS X and iOS. I paid $70 to buy the apps, but then the company switched to a $40 a year annual subscription, and as the dozens of angry reviews and comments illustrate, that price is vastly out of proportion from the cost of providing the software (which I might add, is entirely hosted on iCloud infrastructure).

I have noticed this as well, that a not-small number of software programs have turned from "give us one money for this version" to "give us slightly smaller amount of one money per month, but do it in perpetuity if you want to keep going with the data you've entered."

That, to me, is crap and is incredibly frustrating, especially when the subscription model is coupled with a data lockout threat. A task manager, a word processor, even a drawing program...none of these ought to require a subscription to be able to use. Sure, have a subscription service for something that needs upkeep, like a syncing service (but get out of here if all you do is just lump it into the user's iCloud storage) or a data feed. But it's almost insulting to say "we used to charge you $50 once, now we're charging you $29.95 per month forever (if you want to see those notes in two years, and no, we don't have a data takeout API); it's such a deal!"
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But quality criteria is subjective on an individual basis. Individuals place varying weights on aspects of a user interface. Some prefer speed over aesthetic, some prefer whitespace over information density, etc.

The quality criteria among one demographic may differ from the quality criteria among another. So I think it’s safe to say that a company can optimize its UI quality for a certain demographic, and that demographic may not include certain individual users.
First it was not a critical life saving device so shut down was a completely viable option. Second, ideally you don't want people to have any interaction with these devices. If they can restart it they can probably mess with it in other less useful ways.

Really you want something like this to be as simple as possible without harming the patient.