skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However your assertion that Spotify is forced to use Apple's in app payment system is simply not true.

But they absolutely are if they want to offer the same level of experience as Apple Music can.

What they're doing now is significantly degrading the user experience compared to Apple Music, which is the whole premise behind them complaining. I don't know why that needs explaining.

What you're saying is effectively akin to 'the iPhone is not limited to running iOS, because you could disassemble the SoC, reverse engineer the HW and load your own OS on it".

Am sure it would theoretically be possible, however nobody sane would say 'Apple allows multiple operating systems to run on the iPhone'.
> By the end though I realized Le Guin had used these "aliens" to show Mr. Ai and the reader what it truly meant to be human.

Telling lies to show the truth, as she puts it in the introduction: http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html
>Not so as I understand it. Only if you put the option to subscribe into your app in the app store. That cost doesn't exist for Mac or PC, but Apple doesn't heavily curate and have costs associated with the wild west of downloading apps from the web.

They can do the purchases on their own website, but its against App Store rules for an app to tell users that they have the option of upgrading outside of IAP.
Scott Aaronson – Quantum Computing and the Meaning of Life
Clickable links:

Github: https://github.com/bresan/entity_embeddings_categorical

PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/entity-embeddings-categorical/

Code coverage (nowadays reaching 97%): https://coveralls.io/github/bresan/entity_embeddings_categor...
If you re-read the title, it's positioned as an /alternative/ to Github with a non-centralized collaboration model.
I love RimWorld, and have hundreds of hours in it, but I'd say it's really more like Babby's First DF game than truly comparable to DF. It just doesn't have the depth, or capability to present a deep challenge forever. It also takes place in a single layer, whereas DF has gobs of layers.
No-one ever counts the dead that "wealth" and its pursuits created like this. Why is that? Are all of the slaves, and people who died in crap working conditions, and victims of colonialism and profit-driven wars and on and on and on just "necessary sacrifices" for progress, or something?
I've played DF a lot.

Biggest problem that I had is that it eventually becomes a challenge to manage the framerate. I realize there are ways to fix this that are intertwined with the gameplay, but I'd rather play the game instead of butchering kittens and other things in an effort to keep the game performant.

Second issue is with military organization. I never really became confident in my ability to get the squads doing what I wanted them to do (wearing the proper uniforms, training with a crossbow).

Despite this, I've had a lot of fun with the game. Building, farming, and managing a metal industry is a lot of fun. The barrier to entry is still pretty high, and I don't think the announced additions are going to change that.

(haven't played in the last year or two, so my criticism may be outdated)
Ross's approach is probably closest to instant gratification: the scenes are intentionally designed to be easy, quick, and striking.

Water color can also be instant gratification, but you can't really paint over mistakes, unlike oils (if you wait for them to dry).

Looking online, people's early Ross-clone works are not so hot, but practice makes perfect. I would suggest picking one segment of a scene, such as part of mountain, and keep trying until you perfect it.

Take a break from the sub-scene for a few days so that you revisit it with a fresh viewpoint. Maybe rotate sub-scenes to rework. Staring at the same thing too long in one sitting can dampen one's objectivity, I've found. This applies to writing also.

Keep in mind that Ross used to crank out such paintings for Alaskan tourist shops en masse. He has the experience of many thousands of paintings, making it look easier than it is. I'm sure his first dozen were clunkers or took a while.
A Unicode string is an array of Unicode's building blocks: Code points. Normalization/composition refers to how we use code points to represent characters. Encoding refers to how we use bytes to represent code points. The two concepts exist at two independent levels of abstraction.
I loved the Star Wars prequels...

That being said, I very rarely get into series unless I'm familiar with the author / director.

I've just gotten tired of slogging through to the end when a book / movie / TV show series should have ended a long time ago.
I believe this underestimates his ability to see beyond what’s possible today and set game-changing goals and direction for those engineering teams.
> They are putting on steam largely because of the USA's shit healthcare system "after Zach's latest cancer scare, we determined that with my healthcare plan's copay etc., I'd be wiped out if I had to undergo the same procedures . . "

I have mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, it totally sucks.

On the other hand, I suspect that as as consequence of this crappy pressure, Dwarf Fortress will reach a substantially wider audience and bring joy to a greater number of people.

I'll be interested to see how Tarn looks back on this moment in, say, five years.
Direct donations (maybe Patreon, too?) are rewarded with a narrative blurb & ASCII art or a crayon drawing. I treasure my drawing of a minecart barrelling toward a goblin tied to the tracks.
Private post Morten:
The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert.

Public post Mortem:

Entirely believable technical cause.
Google Photos ?
Not when I screw up :-)
MercadoLibre announces pricing of follow-on offering
Absolutely so. Posts with more engagement will automatically climb up and that's on the "Top" section (https://news.nukleosome.com/top). We'll make this section the default as the community grows.

Thanks for the feedback!
Rimworld is kinda lame if you've played DF. They are not even comparable.
> SWA has seen no MCAS issues in its fleet

I don't see how your link supports this. Closest I found in the text:

> Southwest has compiled and analyzed a tremendous amount of data from more than 41,000 flights operated by the 34 MAX aircraft on property, and the data supports Southwest's continued confidence in the airworthiness and safety of the MAX.

That doesn't preclude having experienced MCAS issues while remaining confident in their pilots' ability to overcome the issues.
> I like having an app store I can trust to not have malware, I like knowing the apps I download have had a human review them for quality. I like having hardware with an OS where the developer of the OS controls when I get updates, not a carrier or manufacturer who are not affiliated with the developer. I like getting security and feature updates for my OS for 5 years. I like paying the developer of my software so the developer has a profit structure that doesn't necessitate spying on me. I like knowing that every piece of software pre-packaged on my device was put there by the developer of the OS with their explicit approval, and not sold to the highest bidder. I like knowing that the software on my phone is exactly how the developer planned it, and not modified by an unaffiliated device manufacturer to the point where multiple websites exist for the sole purpose of creating ROMs that mimic the developer's intended software, necessitating that I now either trust the unaffiliated hardware manufacturer or trust some random person on the Internet to deliver me a clean ROM.

And none of that has anything to do with what we are discussing. Apple could still do all this thing while allowing more competition on the plateform. For example could you explain to me how allowing apps competing with the system ones or allowing other streaming service to cast and use the watch would prevent any of what you listed ?

It is not an either/or situation between two opposite situations. There are plenty of inbetween possibilities.

> feel like they are winning because Apple's interests align with their own

Apple interests is selling you phone and apps so they can make money. Unless you are a stockholder, I don't see how their interests can align with yours. Unless you take pleasure in paying more, you are clearly losing from the situation.
As some point they are caped by the number of people having access and using the Internet, same for Facebook or any world-scale tech company.
The legendary and indescribable Dwarf Fortress goes non-ASCII and non-free
> Facebook events is one of the only things keeping a lot of people I know on facebook.

Yeah, it's true for me. I barely use messenger anymore (married the person I wrote the most with), and even then I use it via Trillian. I open facebook maybe 2-3 times per week to check events and that's it. But with all their crappy UX, events is still better than alternatives to see what friends are doing and what's going on locally.
Apps are not allowed to link the website for purchasing. That's one of Apple's rules.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#in-...

> Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.
i thought it was clear what i considered dangerous thinking, that is the assumption that apple doesn't have a monopoly in the strict sense of controlling a certain commodity or market and thus no one needs to worry about their behavior with regards to competitive or anti-competitive practices. the implication in the comment i replied to was that apple doesn't have a monopoly according to its definition and thus there's no need to worry or consider anti-trust things. that is dangerous thinking because there is more to worry about with today's mega-companies than the strict definition of a monopoly. it is this dangerous thinking that has allowed them and these other larger companies to exert major influence on markets, economies, competitors, suppliers, policies, and governments.

> But you can't say it is "dangerous thinking" when someone simply applies the definition.

yes i can.
> How does the trim wheel work? Is it mechanically connected to the stabilizer?

On 737s, yes, the trim wheel is mechanically connected by cables. To quote the 737-800 FCOM:

"Manual stabilizer control is accomplished through cables which allow the pilot to position the stabilizer by rotating the stabilizer trim wheels. The stabilizer is held in position by two independent brake systems. Manual rotation of the trim wheels can be used to override autopilot or main electric trim. The effort required to manually rotate the stabilizer trim wheels may be higher under certain flight conditions. Grasping the stabilizer trim wheel will stop stabilizer trim motion."
If I had to hazard a guess at the logic behind not grounding the Max it’s something like this:

We believe there may be an MCAS issue due to the preliminary Lion investigation but we haven’t seen it in our fleet and our pilots are confident they are prepared for it anyway. We don’t yet have enough data to draw any conclusion on the Ethiopian crash and so we’re currently treating it as an independent incident and a single incident doesn’t warrant grounding the plane.

Would I personally feel safer on a new Southwest Max or on an older Southwest 737? I don’t know. Statistically, there have been no 737 Max crashes in the US.
Kitfox Games is run by Tanya Short, who’s co-authored a book on procedural generation in games.[1]

She gave a pretty interesting talk in Vancouver about how it integrates into her studio’s production methodology. A lot of Kitfox’s games employ procgen, so I feel like they’re a good fit for the title. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Procedural-Generation-Design-Tanya-Sho...

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TH11Q7VPXj8
> They're probably the best independent regulator the US has at the moment.

Aren't most of the safety statistics they publish basically fake? If you look at the star ratings they give for crash tests, there is an asterisk with fine print saying that they only compare vehicles within 250lbs of each other. Which means that when you're trying to figure out which car is actually the safest, a car that gets a 3-star crash rating might actually be safer than one that gets a 5-star crash rating.
Possibly but how can you make 5M accounts like that without it costing a ton of $$ ...
> Healthcare in the U.S. is not provided to citizens in a way that resembles a government program.

Except for the ~1/3 of Americans who get healthcare through one or more of the government programs (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, Tricare, etc.)
I would wager mass surveillance programs, Fast/Furious, and spying on White House journalists to be scandalous.

Not sure why many people can't fathom seeing both parties as unethical.
Even better is the !sp bang, which is for StartPage (a google search proxy). This way you can get the Google results and still retain some privacy from Google. I also use !w (wikipedia) and !so (stackoverflow) bangs regularly. Finally, the search doesn't have to be prefix with these bangs, it just needs in to be in the search somewhere - I find it quicker to just append it to the end personally.

Full list of supported bang queries: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
I'm polishing up a (mostly) headless API-first user management system to release into the wild as a paid product.

Over the years I've written 5 different user management systems for various companies I've worked for, using 5 different languages. "We've got this terrific online product we need you to work on. By the way, we'll need a user management system. Can you throw one together quickly then get back to working on the core product?" That kind of thing. Each was used to manage hundreds of thousands of user accounts in production.

Finally I wrote one for my own projects and have been using it for a couple of years. Designed from the ground up for modern Kubernetes/Docker deploys, handles all your CRUD and random user data storage needs, scales to infinity (and beyond!), and requires minimal admin/maintenance (because I'm lazy - I like services you can launch and forget about). Scratching my own itch so I don't ever need to write another one ever again - and neither should you.

I'm working on productizing it, writing more docs, adding licensing, distribution, payment infrastructure, that kind of thing. I'll announce it on HN when I'm ready to sell.

If anybody's interested shoot me an email (in my profile).
Exactly why volunteered for Andrew Yang 2020!
This is super cool! People underestimate how insanely chaotic a cell is at a molecular level. Often diagrams show blobs cleanly interacting but the reality is more like the images linked here:

https://mgl.scripps.edu/people/goodsell/illustration/public/

Everything touches everything. Everything is always moving around.

This work suggests that the cell has taken advantage of this enormous challenge. If everything is always in motion, that means you have trouble controlling things, but that gives you a chance to maximally sample your environment. This makes this sort of efficient data processing possible. Downstream are a number of mechanisms that help make sense of that signaling, denoising the chaos. One example from a lab I worked in briefly (old but still cool):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286741...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18599789
But you could argue that the weights of the model wouldn't be what they are without the copyrighted work. Since their model does use the work, apart of it was "derived" from that piece.
While a great deal of jobs create non-zero-sum value, and many people thrive in their roles (in a Maslow self-actualization sense), a significant subset of the labor market seems to exist only from a slavish devotion to the social ritual of "jobs" for their own sake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
I'd highly recommend taking a class just to get the basics of technique and perspective. I took one at the local community college, it was not very expensive and it took me from "can't draw anything more expressive than a smiley face" to "hey, that's not bad" in just 3 months. After that practice, practice, practice (practice).
Perl 6 normalizes to NFC by default for everything except filenames: https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode

As to lelf's 1-character emoji, str.chars returns the number of characters in the string-- it would only return 2 if it returned the number of code units instead (which, the documentation notes, is what currently happens on the JVM).
Not sure why Apple didn't get hit with an anti-trust lawsuit yet. Spotify is correct.
Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
Just fyi: People with Health Anxiety, like me, please avoid this site :)
That is really interesting, though IIRC the dev of df doesn't use any reasonable sort of cvs, and I got the impression that the source code was essentially enough spaghetti to feed an Italian wedding.
Except you're skipping over the dual question, of how many true total slackers have had to not weigh down society by the idea of having to work, aren't you?
First - Where does your motivation come from? Is it an emotion, an image in your mind, a place and how it makes you feel? Go deep into that, and the process of painting, whatever that looks like, should become a means of lifting that up and embracing that motivation in a deeper way.

Second - Painting is a process and understanding technique is all about having a relationship between you and your faculties in conjunction with the unique materials and their inherent processes. Whatever you choose to paint with, oil, acrylic, water color, guache, digital, they all have their limits and their sublime qualities, embrace these limitations and qualities as their strength. Get to know the history of pigments for example to develop a deeper appreciation for this kind of stuff.

Of course drawing skills are essential but beyond a faculty in rendering the work of learning to draw is a serious head-trip. Sure it is about developing muscle groups. The eye to see, the arm and hand to capture, but it is equally if not more-so a battle of overcoming the chatter and false images your mind possess and overlays that are not matching what your eyes are seeing in the world and on the canvas. It is about overcoming your own ego because it will lie to you, make you lazy, invest emotion into a mark on the page and make you frustrated and tell you you are not good enough or you are better than any actually constructive criticism. The wepon against all these things is clearing the page and starting over, clearing your mind and looking again, and closer.

It is lazy and far slower to depend purely on yourself, find other people you can learn from take what you can from their experience and repeat.
For sure FBaiden, you can reach us at techlit.africa@gmail.com
Now I have this wild supposition that every time I see an

<add it to your wish list!>

button it is so that Apple won't fall on you like a ton of bricks for suggesting I can buy things outside their store.
As an avid sci-fi reader this is providing so many answers to my recurring frustrations whenever books series don't get a sequel. I don't think I truly understood that there were important business and human capital constraints.
Non-line-of-sight 3D imaging with a single-pixel camera
Regardless on your feelings about "socialism", you have to ask yourself: What will happen when automation comes for more and more jobs?

If the means of production are all automated, what does that mean for our society? Do we rail against automation in order to retain traditional jobs? How would that be materially different from Keynes' idea of economic stimulus by making jobs to dig holes and them in again?
i wasn't necessarily making a legal argument, but i agree with you. our government has stopped caring about corporate influence because they benefit from it while it hurts society as a whole.
Lambda School is giving an $18,000 stipend to select students
I can fathom seeing both parties as falling below some threshold of being "acceptably ethical".

I cannot fathom seeing every administration as being equally and indistinguishably unethical, however.
I think you mean Itch.io: https://kitfoxgames.itch.io/dwarf-fortress
My comments are mostly based on the information in the article and common sense. Anything in particular you have to object to the comment above? Feel free to object in a productive manner. With words and arguments should you have any, not generic accusations.

Also when I said “all my comments” I actually meant all my comments that could be downvoted. Full day. Nothing to do with the value of the comments.

Might I add the irony of you replying to my comment by speculating?
We, organization I work for, gave up on managing our own email. We pay Microsoft to do it. Their automated phishing detection is phenomenal. Maybe two or three emails slip through a quarter, down from dozens a month.

We had so many because our user base gets an email address which expands the email base from employees to employees + customers, so 10k to 150k+ and once someone fell for the scam it would get resent from their address which looks much more convincing.
The problem with eliminating work (which we're getting pretty good at) is that we don't then have a system to support people who don't work.

In order for A to not have a negative effect, you have to have B.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. There's nothing new in them, therefore are boring, therefore are off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You don't learn to ride a bike by avoiding bikes :)

Nonetheless, it's totally understandable.
Sure, it would be wonderful if everyone had free health care and universal basic income, but how are we going to pay for it? In the US we're already $22 trillion in Federal debt, not including state debt and trillions we're going to owe to retiring baby boomers and federal employees.
How to memorize a thousand digits of pi (or just about anything, really)(2014)
I'm not suggesting we optimize along a single axis, I'm stating what the reality is. Short term, it makes sense for each individual to use Costco/Target/Walmart/Amazon/Google/Apple/BoA/Chase/Nordstroms/Trader Joes/Aldi/United/Delta/American/Hilton/Marriott/Home Depot/Lowes/AMC/Regal/P&G/J&J/Conagra/UPS/FedEx etc. These big organizations have achieved efficiencies of scale (and political clout) to be able to offer services at a price that others can't. Long term, we are ceding pricing power to fewer and fewer sellers (and buyers on the labor side), but I doubt people will stop and start giving business to the local retailer or bank or hardware store, if they still exist.

Obviously, I'm not talking about infrastructure monopolies as the consumer has little to no choice there between things like mobile/internet/electric/gas/water/sewer/waste removal providers.
The main point of this is that it’s not glued to Facebook. So feedback that it can only succeed if it’s glued to a social network is arguably valid but pointless.

This seems like a cool project and I’ll give it a try for my next poker night. As someone not on Facebook, but who hosts social events, I’m probably the target audience here. Evite kind of sucks (feels stuck in the year 2003). AnyVite was better but then they shut down—and now I just checked and it looks like they’re actually still around (?) This space could really use an innovator with a quality product that’s not reliant on or exclusive to FB.
Despite the name, UPS Airlines is a cargo company, not an airline. If you want to quibble over semantics, just pretend I specified “passenger airline” since that’s what I was talking about and that’s the relevant category.