skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, the "stitch together a bunch of substrings of a large string" task also comes up in DNA sequencing: the physical process basically randomly samples a bunch of snippets that are each a few hundred bases long, and you need to use software to detect overlaps combine them into one long sequence. It's a pretty heavily-researched computational problem, I believe. The author's simple algorithm seems to have worked, but I guess the DNA case is harder because you don't really have the "page number", you have a lot more snippets to combine, and snippets may have errors, with more errors occurring toward the ends.

Some information on the topic: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Sequencing_(NG...
Ah, I may have seen what you mean. According to https://www.countyofunion.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=180009... :

> 1976	Chicago claims to have had "the first enhanced 911 system of any major city" in the United States.

… so I guess in

> > 911 is a creaky old system put in place by a Chicago mayor looking to score some points with the electorate.

you meant E911 (which, as the linked page points out, is a nebulously defined and variously implemented technology), not necessarily 911?
Hopefully better and more nuclear in the future with a progress on fusion and storage . Or any other novel ways to produce energy.
You're complaining about the experience from a developer, which is not what this analogy is about. No, Wal-Mart isn't allowed to run their own business in a company town.

As for push notifications—it's not surprising that Apple doesn't allow the HTTP version because it would be chaos for battery life. Besides, any website can offer a totally free native app that simply performs push notifications for your site. You don't need to give up 30% of anything to Apple for that.
A professional engineer has to pass a pretty rigorous test that takes every bit of 8 hours for most folks. I studied for hundreds of hours for mine (not kidding) and it took me two tries to pass. I know great engineers who are trying for the sixth time. Getting an engineering degree is really hard at most colleges. Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam is also challenging, but a joke compared to the P.E. exam. A professional engineer has both passed that test and worked for usually four years in industry according to most state laws and can testify in court as an expert. The commenter you quoted likely isn't being snarky, but trying to point that out. If Sweden has a completely different set of requirements, I would similarly not be able to practice in the same professional context there.

This was rotten of Oregon, but there are generally laws like this to make sure everyone knows what to expect from an engineer. Of course it looks rediculous that a Swedish engineer wasn't allowed to point out a flawed system (I agree it is a violation of free speech), but they also can't take his background at face value, just like someone with a medical degree from Cuba probably can't practice medicine in the United States without going through licensing and taking classes to make sure the degrees truly are equivalent.
AMAZING and inspiring.
I'd rather be using Stripe same as I do on the web. I find their subscription docs and API subpar right now. I'm hoping it improves.
Namecoin's .bit namespace is a bit like this, but since it requires custom software or DNS servers to access them, it's use is unfortunately limited for now.
How well do apps do now outside of the Google play store in developed countries?
When you shop at Costco, you are buying Kirkland, Samsung, Apple, and 100 other brands. Think of it from the perspective of Danone yoghurt. They are paying Costco 5-10-15% right? Because they sell to Costco at a price cheaper than the sale price. How is it different here?

There are other arguments to be made about the store fees, but Costco is pretty much like apple store and vendors don't even have the option of saying "hey they will not stock it but you can pick it there anyways", which is what Apple allows you to do by having an app that can be registered / paid for elsewhere.
>The only thing that worries me about LE is that it's almost too easy. What happens when 90+% of the Web is running certificates from the same issuer? Are there any plans to run alternate free ACME CAs to prevent Let's Encrypt from becoming a single point of failure?

Not that I've given it deep thought, but do you think their core strategy would fundamentally make it easier for a second wave if it ever came to that? Compared to traditional CAs Let's Encrypt is all about automation and rapid expiration, and they've not only built significant open source tools to that effect but also gotten the community used to operating that way. At least at a high level it seems like they had a steeper hill to climb just in terms of being quite different from before, but now that the standards have improved and practices are in place it'd be a lot easier for everyone to simply point at new ACME CAs if LE ever went down, and old certificates would then cycle out rapidly and automatically. Obviously actually establishing a good new CA that would be trusted wouldn't be trivial itself, but it's also more abstracted from the end user then before. And there are major entities that could step up in an emergency.

I may be missing something here, but at least my feeling has been that LE is not merely providing a good service for now, but permanently improving the entire ecosystem in a lasting way and that if root forbid a meteor hit them or something it'd still be possible to recover better then before.
Because the roof structure already exists.
Cocaine is a substantially different molecule, but yes, Adderal is amphetamine, and methamphetamine is effectively just an extra carbon atom (along with the extra hydrogens that go with it).

Arguably meth would be the better treatment...
Maybe so. But one truck accident kills far fewer people than one airline accident. So each individual pilot has considerably more responsibility than each individual truck driver.
If you ever want to go into power distribution as an EE you'll need to stamp plans and projects and won't be promoted passed a certain point without it. I'd recommend you try to find someone at your work with one (you have to work under a P.E.) and take the test as soon as you can.
Yes, also addressed in the article and the judge's decision:
"She directed the state to remove the definition of 'engineer,' from its state law and administrative rules, and simply restrict who can consider themselves a 'professional engineer,' or a 'registered professional engineer.'"
Most money being spent on the App Store is for in app consumables from games.
Isn't it a patented algorithm? So it is practically useless.
Happy new year! I hope that everyone will have a blast in the year to come
Meh.

You think you know the value users attribute to improved image quality and shorter battery life (let's not forget that most folks carry chargers or can charge at work and home).

But you don't. Perhaps you shouldn't judge for others but merely notice this trade off.
IIRC, Eocene period had atmospheric CO2 up to 2000 ppm, the known max. I figure we'll meet that target (ocean acidification, thawing tundra, desertification). So life will somehow survive. Though I wouldn't place bets that we humans will squeeze thru that keyhole.
Obviously it is a problem with Apple, not Google. People should just push it more to do the job.
(Nobody is forcing you to carry just one mobile phone, even though most people do.)

So now we're getting somewhere. This is the height of the wall around this particular walled garden. Now let me ask this: What percentage of the population would even consider owning two smartphones? That's how close to an idealized monopoly this walled garden is. So granted, it's not a monopoly in an idealized sense. But we now quantify how "monopolish" it is.
Just to confirm: Within the last few weeks, have you started using a VPN, or TOR? Cloudflare is known to pop up captchas regularly for TOR users.

One other thing to check is, what is your computer—or other computers on your network—doing? For example, if all your stuff is behind a NAT router, and one device has been compromised, then Cloudflare may be treating your public IP as a problematic one.

Or, if your public IP is assigned by DHCP, maybe you got a problematic IP issued to you.

It's kindof hard to tell, as (as far as I know) Cloudflare doesn't provide a way to look up the status of an individual IP address (compared to how, say, Spamhaus).
> The fact is, if your customer has an iOS device, you must include Apple in the transaction and pay them 30%

This is false.

What Netflix and Epic are doing is completely within the terms Apple has laid out. The only thing they can't do is direct their iOS app customers elsewhere for the purpose of a monetary transaction.

And it's not limited to big corps. There are countless examples of small developers doing the exact same thing. For example, I subscribe to 1Password for use on my iOS device, and Apple doesn't get a single cent of that subscription fee.
Why not just use an RSS reader?
Well two things.

No phone manufacturer outside of China and developing countries can hope to sell a phone without Google Services.

Until earlier this year, Google would not license Google flavored Android to phone manufacturers unless they agreed not to sell phones based on Android forks.
My guide is: don't use it. Your privacy is violated and you instantly enter the communist big data factory. You get paid nothing for information they steal from you. And you give out your identity info for literally several low value purchases. Screw that.

Cash is hated by most sellers, but it's also legal. It works fine. If the sellers don't like that cash is legal tender, they can take it up with the Communist Party.
Spotify stopped allowing subscriptions on iOS a while ago.
Would Netflix still need to pay Apple 30% of the Netflix app redirected new sign-ups to a netflix.com web page in Safari?
If you include the Amazon App Store, probably very well.
Research paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I wouldn't use an esp32 if your concern is power consumption, as they tend to be pretty power hungry, even when they're only doing BLE. The Nordic nRF52 series is pretty good, and you can find shielded modules for around $10-15 in single unit quantities.

$2 is a bit of a stretch... You can probably get the bare IC for ~$5 if you're willing to do the antenna yourself.
World wide product distribution for only 30% is cheap.

I see a lot of Sellers whining, but the Customers love this arrangement. Take a look at iOS satisfaction rate among its users VS the other phone vendors.
>Problem is, we're growing, but can't keep engineers. In the beginning of the year we had half the number of employees we have now, but twice as much engineers as today. An engineer left us three weeks ago and two more gave notice and are leaving in January. Hiring is extremely hard because of economy.

So I know nobody want's to say it, but I think that as a non-technical person, you should be focusing on pay here, and that everything else will follow. In my own career? if someone offers me a lot more money? that's a very strong signal that they are going to treat me better in other ways, too.

I mean, to translate this into manager-speak, pay is about respect. If you don't respect me to pay me more than the next company, you probably aren't going to respect me enough to treat me better in other ways.

(that, and money really does matter; I mean, I live in a world where starter houses are the better part of a million bucks. If I am getting paid $140K, and someone else comes along and offers me $180K? yeah, that's impactful; Even as a guy without kids who doesn't have particularly extravagant tastes, it makes a significant difference in the amount of time I have to work before I retire.)
Debian Project Timeline – A Timeline of the Debian Project
Transferring ownership or control of a root CA requires assent from the trust stores.

That's one (of several) reasons WoSign / StartCom was distrusted, they tried very hard to conceal the change in ownership of StartCom.

Assent might well be given, but it isn't automatic. This came up for Symantec selling their CA business, and also for other CA outfits doing internal reorganisations which wanted to be clear that these were paper exercises (e.g. for branding) and had no effect on which people controlled the CA in practice.
Ethics aside, it might not be safe.

https://www.livescience.com/63075-crispr-damage-cell-mutatio...
It might be slightly easier, but there are still a big cost to switching phone platforms. You lose all the apps you have purchased over the years, and all the music as well. It isn't easy to just leave.

It would be like if the company town made you leave your clothes behind if you decide to leave.
Super bad name. One of the most popular routing protocols is OSPF.
Subscriptions I have/had that require an email address/password but allow you to subscribe outside of the store: Hulu, Netflix, PluralSight, STARZ.

Subscriptions that force you to subscribe out of the store: DirecTVNow, ACloudGuru, Amazon Prime Video, Sling, Spotify.

I doubt very seriously that Apple is stopping your app because of a fear of competition but not stopping dozens of other players.
>How often is IC & circuit board failure a thing in cars although? I've had 20 year old cars,

The stuff in a car coming off the line today is generations more complicated than what was being put in a car 20 years ago.

I never had problems with anything electrical related until owning a 'modern' carn, my 2013 impala which has had multiple faulty sensors, a wiring harness that would randomly turn stabilitrack on and off while driving, would randomly fire abs while breaking, throws off 3 check engine lights from various emissions systems any time humidity is up, etc.

N=1 but most of the issues I've had with my Impala Chevy has had across multiple generations of multiple vehicles in the past decade from cars and trucks. One of the emission sensors that is faulty in my car is used in at least 2 generations of 3 different models and a search of one of the codes it throws comes up on a dozen plus forums.

A quick google on just ECM/ECU/PCUs make it seem it's common enough for them to fail in vehicles and those are usually programmed to your VIN. Looks like corrosion from moisture, cracked traces, vibration damage, etc are all common causes.

Hell, even TPMS sensors fail regularly enough and some of those can get a little pricey and will throw codes until you replace them.
It's an old stuff. What's new here buddy?
I'm not suggesting that it should fall to the individual, but that the individual have some latitude to defend themselves against a credible threat rather than being expected to just put up with it and hope for the best.
As someone thats submitted over 50 apps to the app store over the last 8 yrs through my agency I disagree. Try submitting a "totally free native app that only performs push notifications for your site" and watch them immediately reject your app for not being "App-like enough". How do I know this? Because I've actually done it. Sorry but your idealistic opinions just don't reflect reality.
I personally would rather connect with the small subculture that connects with large primes than with the much larger (but in my opinion, less interesting) subculture that connects with sports.

I mean, I'm not saying that one is any more objectively valuable than the other, just that it's a preference, and neither one is more valid than the other.
The EU forced Apple and Audible’s partnership to dissolve.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14323438/apple-audible-ex...
The risk isn’t that we create something superior. It’s that we fail and subject babies/children/people to suffering that we can’t predict or imagine.

Gene editing can go very wrong.

You change one little thing and it produces myriad unexpected effects.
This misses the point. It is not equal. I choose Apple's store for one Very Big Reason over almost all other third-party services: I trust them with my financial details.

I don't have to 'beg' to later cancel my subscription. I don't have to worry about my credit card being stolen. I don't have to worry about a bunch of sophomoric engineers breaking their own website and creating grief for me.

I am in control with Apple. I prefer it. I am the customer.

I realize Netflix is no startup. I realize I may be paranoid and not even a fan of the Stripe madness that every two-bit startup uses.

But Netflix is still YAFS (Yet Another Friggin Subscription) that I have to manage on some other platform.

I prefer to have Apple be the "overseer" of even Netflix.

Would I cancel my Netflix subscription if I'm not at least provided the option of continuing my Apple management of their subscription? I'm leaning heavily toward it.

Don't be naive, everyone. This is more than just about the 30% cut. This is also about Netflix having a LOT of extra data on their customers they can't get within the Apple ecosystem.... home addresses, full names, credit card data, and possibly (yes, quiet possibly) cross-referencing that with other data providers to determine credit scores, income brackets, lifestyle choices, etc.

Why wouldn't' Netflix want a complete 'subscriber per zip code' breakdown. Yes, they could guesstimate it with IP addresses (and probably do), but now they could even say, "Hmmm... these subscribers appear to have 700 beacon scores, are single, and pay with a Titanium credit card. Surely, we could charge them more per month and they'd still pay. Or at least spam, er, offer them premium packages".

Not saying they don't have the right. Just as long as they don't say I don't have the right to stick with my Protective Shield of Apple.

After 2018 and all the data breaches the past two years, it's almost enough to want to pay cash for everything - or just bow out altogether. What little things I want to stay with, I prefer some 'middleman' that I can trust. Like Apple.

P.S. I am not an Apple Fanboy. But they are devoted to my privacy like no other Big tech company. So, they get my business. For now.
Cool story. Now I bet that if indeed was shot down we'll never hear that. Either they will stop their investigation or it will become part of a secret for another 50 years
Qualified Locomotive Engineer, this is a federally regulated title in that context as well.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-87-150/f...
Depends on the opco. Express owns their trucks but pretty sure Ground drivers, however, own their trucks. Don't know about Customs Critical but they are rather large sleepers so could go either way.
Except 1Password is a huge and very well known product, and it could be argued that the software takes places outside the app and therefore is exempt from IAP.
Yeah my tone was a bit to harsh and I didn't want to insult anyone but I am still wondering that nobody at Tribago gave him this feedback. However and hopwfully this useless piece of work leads him to some other more relevant stuff.
Pencil Sketch and other interesting stuffs with images
Any provider can have subscriptions outside of the store and still distribute on the platform.
> Helical gears are easier to shift

Automotive transmissions are constant-mesh. The gears don't "shift" at all. Instead the shifter moves the locking collars that lock various gears to the shafts - but all forward gears are meshed all the time. (Yes, this means that when you're cruising down the highway in 6th, 1st gear is happily spinning along at X0,000RPM.
Around 2009 I saw someone's work made with OmniGraffle and it was so beautiful that wanted to have that too.

BTW, until recently OmniGraffle was the only commercial mac app I used in past 10 years. Now I got FL Studio as well.
Seeing "octal" and "pluggable" together evokes images of tube sockets; before I clicked the link, I was expecting connectors more similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_socket#Octal being used for Ethernet.

The actual "meat" of the site for the more technically inclined is here: https://osfpmsa.org/specification.html

...where you find that "octal" does not mean it has 8 pins, but instead 8 separate differential pairs for data.
Aren't you forgetting liability? It's not exactly in the PEs interest to sign off on shoddy work as they can be found liable if it does hit the fan. And the consequences could be pretty severe.
The linked article doesn't say anything about "end-of-year". But it does refer to the donations as a "surprise".
For something a bit different calculate the gcd (although doing Euclid's algorithm is more expensive?).

https://haskell.godbolt.org/z/m7IY8U.
They don’t “take action” against any firm that does this. You’ve always been allowed to have subscriptions off the platform you just couldn’t link to the website.

Unless you consider ACloudGuru for instance “large”.
LibVES: End-To-End Encryption API
I worked this way at a startup accelerator—for the accelerator itself before I had technically graduated from MIT (4-year bachelors degree that I did in 5 years). How I got into it was by responding to a recruiter email by asking if they knew anyone looking for contractors. They connected me with the organization and I had a single in-person interview. They wanted to bring me on board and I made up an hourly rate of $30/hour and they said great. I set about understanding their needs and writing the spaghetti code that 1.5 years later made me look for a role at a place where I could have guidence and code reviews.
Imagine you live in a town with two similarly good cable TV providers. Each has a monopoly on selling HBO subscriptions through their particular service.

Most people have one cable TV subscription. Which means if you want HBO on your cable TV box, you can only subscribe through your current cable TV provider. You can call this a monopoly if you like, doesn't make it wrong or illegal.
Before you try to replace Patreon with your crypto project, read this
They could edit the DNA to do something truly horrendous. E.g. The Fly movie via DNA modification.
> You need someone who is really good at saying "is this working? Should I keep doing this? How do we do this better?"

And sometimes you need someone who is really good at saying "let's just get this done." Diversity is a good thing on any team, even in a startup.
Reminds me of high-school when a buddy was goofing off in class, taking an online quiz which accompanied a news article about suicide and depression. The quiz asked "Are you depressed?".

A few of us were following what he was doing, and at the end of the quiz he got the result effectively saying seek immediate professional help. Shocked, he exclaimed "What?! I'm having the time of my life!"

Turns out there's an overlap between certain symptoms of depression and being madly in love... and he just got a new GF a week earlier.
Depends on the hemisphere
Creating a second account to agree with yourself isn't going to make your point any more compelling.
I know it’s a terrible answer but buy a newly constructed house. That’s all I’ve bought and the maintenance on them is close to nothing. Plus the house will be a lot more energy efficient and save even more money. Just stay away from an hoa or condo.
Lets encrypt should get involved and get the starttls-everywhere project happening like they did for the web.

https://starttls-everywhere.org/
I don't thing the problem really is about genetically engineering babies. I mean, we are already creating superhumans that are immune to some diseases with vaccines, genetic engineering is just a step further.

The real problem is that it is essentially unauthorized experiments on human subjects. Just like with drugs, there is a process ensuring the risks are minimized. And it look like they skipped all that.

Gene editing also has specific challenges:

- They are babies, they can't give consent themselves.

- They are (presumably) healthy to begin with. It is not a case of "with that experimental treatment, you may die, but without it, you definitely will".

- The treatment may also affect the offspring in unexpected ways.