skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISTR seeing illustrations from an Apple patent showing a computer display with a slot in the back into which an iPhone can be docked, turning the phone into a full-size desktop workstation.

And this was during the Jobs era.
I guess it might be of as old fashioned, but there's nrarely a "Resource Limit Reached. Error 508" with radio.

Shame, I was interested in reading about this.
Maybe rethinking both parents working is more productive to society.

If the expectation was that one parent cared for the children and the household, that would drastically shrink the supply of workers, and force wages up, recognizing the actual, formerly unpaid cost of maintaining a household and raising children.
Or print out all your conversations.
If the parents can't get to work by 9, don't you think their more limited job options could have a real effect on their kids?
57% of WP Sites Become Less Secure in December 2018
That society will not exist. People derive meaning from work. Ambition also drives personal development. You take those away and all a person has left is self-medication with drugs and booze and suicide. We need the struggle.
Should have primed with $10s instead!
The story of Hal Finney, cryptographic activist
It is. In a competitive enough market sector, most ads cancel out with the competition. But if you stop playing the game, you lose.

The sad thing is just how much waste this creates. Waste of manpower and waste of energy, including fuels used to make and transport physical ads.
Public speaking: 4 questions your audience have for you before you utter a word
On higher end TVs this isn’t the case, on LG WebOS for example the input selection is stored in the Smart Menu which is jammed full of ads.
Not just at this point. It's been seen as at least partially an Italian heritage day for longer than it's been an official holiday.
Someone (an attorney general, perhaps?) might be able to make a fraud case against them. Or, a class could pull together to pool damages, if a court approves the class (which I suspect it would).

Small claims courts are typically limited to actual damages; you're not going to get a heavy "punishment" fine added on top. So, yeah, you'll get your $35 back, minus filing costs.
Don't forget NBC /Universal/Comcast.
Ford is buying Spin to enter the electric scooter market
That is exactly the point!

From the paper:

Some readers may object to our use of the
term “free will” to describe the indeterminism of
particle responses. Our provocative ascription of
free will to elementary particles is deliberate, since
our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a
certain freedom, then particles have exactly the
same kind of freedom. Indeed, it is natural to
suppose that this latter freedom is the ultimate
explanation of our own.
I think simonh was not arguing against the chain of causation, but rather agreeing with it, and arguing against "If the future can be perfectly predicted => people definitely do not have free will" and in favor of "If the future can not be perfectly predicted => people definitely do not have free will"

If an entity's decision process is is not not dependent and repeatable based entirely on it's internal state and perceptions of it's environment, then it must be dependent on some external random element, and that element not being part of that entity, means it's choice is not entirely of it's own free will.

This argument rejects duality of course, as one's "will" itself could be the external element.
We have a bar here in Phoenix, located almost directly across the street from a hospital, called "The Recovery Room":

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.5240529,-112.1032385,3a,15y,...
They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12
Only if literally everything adjusts to compensate. People proposing a permanent move to daylight savings time with some things moving to compensate are expecting the majority of things to keep happening at the same clock time (resulting in advantages like more evening sunlight).
I use it since ~4 Years and i love it. Its also my personal archive. You can tag articles and there is an app (for reading and sharing articles directly to wallabag) and a Firefox addon which lets you quickly add articles and tag them immediately.

But its a rather big php app which did not perform well on my bananapi which i used until half a year ago. Now whith a little bit more hardware (udoo x86) its running really fine.
I made a couple trips to the South Pole in grad school. Down there you were either a scientist in a red parka, black insulated pants, and white boots or support staff in brown carharts. No part of the body could be seen at a distance and even the gloves were standard issue.

What constantly amazed me was how you could see someone walking a quarter mile away and instantly know exactly who it was.

The South Pole is a smaller population than China so I'd be worried about false positives (probably mostly within families as kids learn to stand and walk like their parents and have similar dimensions when fully grown) but I suspect it's actually a pretty robust identification technique.
The search speed is vastly worse than what it was on windows 8. A part of me wonders if that's due to the conversion from native languages to html+css+js for the start menu, but even so it's significantly laggy for that.

Another thing that really annoys me is that web results pop in above local results on the computer. I almost never search Bing via the start menu, and I'd love for a way to disable that but I also realize it's their main strategy for monetization for win 10 now that they're doing free rolling releases.
Birds and Frogs – Freeman Dyson [pdf]
Thanks for sharing

What I am looking for is more at a data centre level I guess that maps the infrastructure to the services provided. For example, Service 1 uses Server A and Server B. Service 2 uses Server B and Server C.

Then, once you have everything mapped out, it is easy to see when planning what services would be impacted if we wanted to upgrade Server B to a new operating system. We would know that we need to check compatibility for both Service 1 and 2, and not just focus on Service 1 and be reminded that Service 2 uses the same server only when something goes wrong!
The title of this piece is "HF Ham Radio on a Budget: QRP Labs, QRPGuys, CW Academy" and probably should at least just be the first part. The article doesn't really talk about being it a golden age for amateurs except for the existence of SOTA.

It's actually a pretty bad time for HF right now because of low solar activity; in fact, it's probably one of the worst times in recent memory to try doing HF beyond SOTA.
The relevant time stamps 4:39-5:02.

Former CIA Chief: "Changing the way that you walk requires some amendment to what you're doing. You're going to need a physical apparatus to make you walk differently. You can't possibly say, okay, now I'm going to limp. To change my walk, I put a little piece of gravel in my shoe, just a little thing that pinches my toe, and it changes my walk whether I want to or not. You can put a bandage around a knee, something that restricts you, will change your walk."
I really like and share your vision for the Mac line, but I doubt keeping two instruction sets simultaneously is the Apple way.

I hope I’m wrong though.
All higher living organisms are composed of cells. Each cell runs biological DNA-based programs. These programs are very different compared to programs on a computer (it's much more about biochemistry than electrical circuits). These programs are supposed to make cells perform their tasks correctly. But over time, the DNA can be affected by chemicals or faulty copy processes. The DNA sequence changes and the program "code" of the DNA is affected as well. The cells with altered DNA will behave slightly differently and in many cases nothing bad happens. But sometimes the changes affect functionality that is important to control the behaviour of the cell.

The thing is, a single cancer cell is not a problem. The problems really start, once the cancer cells creates a great number of copies of itself and disrupts the operations of the other normal cells.

What makes cancer tricky, is that cancer cells still are derived from normal cells and they might look too similar to normal cells so that it is difficult for the immune system to spot and kill them.

What is now the root cause? The root cause is errors in the DNA sequence that accumulate over time. This is a natural process. The cells have some DNA repair mechanisms, but they are not perfect. To fully cure cancer, you would need to correct all DNA sequence errors which is not practical. However, in practise, this is not what is needed. Instead, it suffices if the cancer cells are being killed. And our immune system is pretty good at this. But at some point, some cancer will have a faulty DNA seuence, with new program code, that helps it hide from the immune system and then we need the help of doctors to get rid of the cancer.
Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I
Interactive Fiction, or Labor or Love
Passionate Soldier Reveals What He Saw in Vietnam
And 5-7 years later we will get "Android phones just copied it from Apple" /s
But that wouldn't make sense, as it would put California four hours behind EDT during the summer, adding to the problem rather than removing.
> we should remember a better world, one in which it was not customary to treat life as a zero-sum game, did exist, not so long ago. Social problems only become unsolvable if everyone forgets they were once solved.

You’ll have to be more specific, as I’m not aware of any such world in recent memory.
Whenever people claim that they see what's REALLY going on, I start wondering if they are taking the correct pills...

Not claiming that governments don't lie, but I think it's quite hard to see when they are lying, and some people just think that everything that comes out of "official sources" it's false.

/rant

> Most of the rest of astronomy disagrees.

That's not the government, that's scientists (although the OP does not provide a source for the claim, so...). Are they also lying?
(Germany) That would be like, last vote here. Thanks CCC for keeping the voting machines away.
While i wouldn't call it a golden age, its definitely not a bad time if you want to do things like digital or satellite work.

New modes like FT8 really allow hams to work in at this crappy solar level. Pricing on HTs has gone down a lot due to the now illegal Chinese knockoffs, so Satellite work and local stuff is more accessible.

Personally I've only done FT8 for the last year and its great. I've been able to make contacts 8000mi+.
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I would assume most HN folks have heard of Rich Hickey and his talks. Surely not all of them have. Learning never ends :-)
> Ubiquitous surveillance would presumably try to have every camera within view of at least one other camera, so sabotaging them is a good way to get tracked down and arrested.

You don't have to attack the camera directly to sabotage it. Cutting power or communications cables and jamming transmissions works too.
How were the police able to seize the company that sold IronChat in the first place? That's like shutting down Open Whisper Systems for criminals using Signal. Do we know if the company knowingly did business with organized crime? Or defied a court order? Or is it simply illegal to sell encryption hardware in .nl?
The moment you try to login from another location, they will lock you out and ask you to enter a phone number, which from that point forward will be tied to your account.

I am not 100% whether they use geolocation, or just trigger this when your new IP doesn't match the last IP you logged in with.
do it! you can get started with some cheap SDR stuff to "see" whats out there. I you want to participate it is really a great hobby. I can't wait until my daughters can participate.
This is all hidden tech, you and OP have very valid points, but who is the intended audience of this message?

In the Jobs' days they'd promote the practical value of a product. For example they might say how the new iPod can have 50k songs, not how big the storage is, let alone the storage type. They'd mention a smaller form factor or improved battery life, not about HDD to SSD.

So when they talk about SoCs, cores, GPUs, intel or anything else hidden, are they signaling to customers? Maybe its signaling to investors that apple is innovating and that ought translate to profits; maybe the inner geek in all of us?

The dirty trick with hidden tech's performance figures is that they don't directly translate to customer value. As you mentioned, you're dissuaded from buying because the new stuff will be so much better. Maybe it will but the old apple would tell you that the new macs can process video in final cut 10x faster, or you don't have to buy a separate gaming rig, i.e. you can do more stuff better.

The good part about focusing on what the products can do is that you can't fake it. You can't fake it to [geeks] like me, [non-geeks like] my mom, my kids, investors, etc.
>* The application seemed to not enforce and/or check the key signatures for changes.

Xabber clone? If so, this, again, demonstrates that automatic key renegotiaton is a glaring security vulnerability open for real world exploitation.

Throw that into Moxie Marlinspike's garden.

Edit, seems their app store is still up. Checkout it out yourself http://www.appstoreprivacy.com
I'd love to set this up at my part time workplace, but it's a forensics shop where the network is offline, and doesn't have email. Team is small (<20) so manual accounts would be fine.

Am I reading the docs correctly in that email is absolutely required? I haven't checked thoroughly for this new release, but previously it was for missed message notification as well as account creation, if I'm remembering right.

It's not a for profit place, so I'm simply looking to self host, sans email, to make communication easier across the teams. Current solution is definitely inferior to Zulip!
Interesting. Has anyone ever written a book about founders across the ages? I remember that the US was always a bit Patent crazy and wonder how that translated into getting capital. Bundy invented the time clock but seems to have been a successful marketeer for his earlier clocks.

The Wright Brothers blew a lot of energy defending their patents and not competing in the market.

The balance between hard skills, showmanship and ruthlessness would be an interesting study.
Samsung didn't implement convergence, they implemented Android-with-a-keyboard-on-a-big-screen . True convergence would be something like Ubuntu Touch wanted to do
I think CarPlay is a test of this use. It's really similar, in that you connect your device to your car, and apps render a different view on a different form factor. You have a certification process so you know you have at least a chance of a good user experience. It's a subset of device functionality, instead of supporting more functionality.

If Apple invests in enhancing CarPlay, it might be a sign that they are scaling to a wider convergence market. If they don't invest or abandon it, then maybe convergence won't happen. They're famous for saying they're not working on projects that they are actually working on, so we have to read between the lines.

After upgrading from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone XR, I've been thinking how close the latest gen devices are to traditional computers anyway. The configuration/settings and features are so far beyond the first gen devices that I think convergence will happen, nobody knows what it will look like yet.
Your example sort of fell apart there. It took 180 days at some hypothetical moment in history. Now it takes a few days.

There are a few words in English the meaning of which is absolute, regardless of context. "Few" is not among those words.
And since we are at it, let's make women be the SAH parents?
Seriously, that would move society 50+ years back. When there were no washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc., maintaining a household was certainly a job for one person, but fortunately we moved past that and, at least in theory, your 46th chromosome does not affect your ability to choose a job anymore.
Jury duty, which is so routinely avoided/worked around that it is a joke?

Tax returns, which are only done at the threat of prison? And mostly in the US because other countries have figured out a way to do it directly as long as you have a job?

I have voted in every election that I was elegible to, but this time I have lost every faith in the system and just want to some way to say to say enough is enough, you have lied to be too many times.

But no, you want me to continue the charade that democracy, without the possibility to hold the politicians responsible for their lies is worth anything at all.

I want them all to burn in hell. Where in your system do I vote in farvour of that?
The Cyphernomicon
We had exactly that in 1950s, but then the feminism happened
Yes. And they also underestimate the cost and time to build such a thing.

From the article, "The project is closely identified with President Xi Jinping, which means it’s unlikely to join a long list of Chinese “ghost cities” financed by local governments."

A lot of initiatives are started by people with an idea but without resources or knowledge to execute it.

I think that city planning is an awesome idea. I grew up in Barcelona and the results are very good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eixample). But creating a new city from scratch is more difficult. And it is harder to get the experience to do it right as the execution of the project will take decades.
Just setting up meeting times in UTC doesn't work right now if the nominal location of the meeting switches to/from daylight time (the actual UTC time changes)

I think that my solution to timezones simply is "more flexible working hours"
Nope, no issues here.
What if current behavior is not completely determined by previous state, and yet is also not random?
I don't want to defer my votes to them, I want to be able to, at all times, change my decision.
How is Netflix on that?
I don't know much about TX, but in CA I think some voter apathy comes from the consistent results over many consecutive elections. I think you would need to look at local turnout to see how it varies when there are hotly contested decisions, i.e. districts where a seat might flip from one party to the other.

In yesterday's election, we had two Democrat candidates vying for a US Senate seat, rather than a bipartisan contest. The candidates from other parties were already squeezed out during our new open-primary election process.

Practically speaking, we don't have direct, proportional representation in most decisions. As a result, people sometimes fall into a trap where they think their personal vote will not really matter. It feels lost in the margin. The same discrete result happens whether they vote or not. This is equally true whether their views align with or against the expected outcome.
No, the feds set the zone boundaries; states can't switch zones without federal action.

There's been some suggestions that it might be easier for a state to get moved to a different zone rather than getting a permanent daylight exception (I think the former may be doable by regulation, while the latter definitely takes Congress.)
> I think most schemes also don't have reader macros.

Scheme even has a fixed syntax in the RnRS reports. Lisp does not have that.

> Also, reader macros are pretty hard to write in comparison.

Not really. One just reads things from a stream and returns an s-expression.

> I feel reader macros have the problem that it modifies/extend the foundational syntax

That's a feature.

The main purpose of user-written reader macros is to extend S-expressions to support literal syntax of new user-defined data types.

There is nothing scary about it at all.

> Racket has a nice take on them though. Making them more like all new programming grammars, and defining your dialect per file

My Lisp Machine had that already in the 80s. It supported different language syntax - from various Lisp variants to Pascal, C and other languages.

> Even there though, most alternate syntax is for research or fun mostly.

On my Lisp Machine it was actually useful.
Do you have any specific examples of this? It doesn’t seem super common that a paper that would be significant enough to make it through peer review would also appeal to the wider/beginner-to-intermediate-level audience of a textbook.
People don't work at the same time, but the time they work is determined by other people's schedules. That's why janitors often work in the middle of the night, and school starts before work, and the doughnut guy has to get to the shop early in the morning.

By the way, I would also love to get rid of clock changes twice a year. I'm mainly playing devil's advocate here. The drawbacks of winter morning darkness are real, and will likely not be solved without DST. I just also think that they're not worth screwing with the clock.

If I lived in a more northerly latitude, maybe I'd change my tune. But as it is, I value daylight at 5pm way more than at 7am. The yearly "fall back" of DST is like an insult added to the injury of winter.
Gödel had an interesting argument that I encountered via Rudy Rucker's blog;

“There is no contradiction between free will and knowing in advance precisely what one will do. If one knows oneself completely then this is the situation. One does not deliberately do the opposite of what one wants.”

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/08/01/memories-of-kurt-g...
Yup. Ranting about losing one hour, once? It's either a flat attempt at humor or the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time.
The DMCA forces ISPs to play along to some extent. It means ISPs have to have a process that includes termination for repeat offenders. The specifics are pretty vague and AT&T is being very aggressive but believe me ISPs don't want to have to play internet police for media conglomerates. They have to spend substantial amounts of time and money handling massive volumes of DMCA notices without compensation and risk pissing off and losing customers over unproven allegations of illegal activity. It's not a good position to be in.
Kind of ironic that, had Apple not hired Anand away from running Anandtech, they would probably still be the most respected tech outlet.
I'm not sure which "problem" you're referring to exactly, but I don't think it's the same problem that the supporters of this law are trying to solve.
Strange. Most hills look small compared to the Mount Everest and the Aconcagua. That doesn't mean they're actually easy to climb.

Why is RedHat compared to the biggest companies on the planet?
BBVA Facilitates First Syndicated Loan on the Blockchain
Yes, and no. The value we place on our own labour is subjective, and the value that a buyer places on our labour is also subjective. You may value your labor at $100/hour, and if no one agrees to pay that price that doesn't mean you are wrong, it just means that there's no market for your labour at that amount.

At the same time, we can say that there is an objective value for labour of a certain type (I'm thinking of commodified labour), which is the going market rate. Just as there is, at any given point in time, an objective value for a share of Apple Computer.
Time zones are set by the DOT, so any change like this likely requires federal action...

https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/procedure-moving-...

Now, not respecting Daylight Savings Time is another matter entirely, and I believe that California could decide to be permanently in PST w/o the approval of the DOT. What they can't do is change the dates for DST or decide to always observe it (which would effectively end up creating a new time zone).

https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/daylight-saving-t...
I think a lot of people (except maybe Apple shareholders) would be happy with a single physical device that handles a variety of use cases rather than paying Apple $1500 a pop, several times over, for the exact same hardware in different physical cases.