skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO if Apple knew it was 'weeks away' they would have waited to settle, because they would have had the upper hand.

These kinds of big patent litigations are a bidirectional game of chicken. It's possible Apple flinched and settled; they could have anticipated a loss. On the other hand, Apple could well have obtained steep discounts on their 5G modem orders from Qualcomm as part of the settlement to compensate them for their troubles. I think it's hard to speculate on what actually happened without more information.
> I don't imagine I'd want to deal with it writing WPF / UWP things though where language support is more important

As the article points out, there never has been any visual forms designer type stuff for F#, so if you're writing a GUI app with F#, it's best to wrap it in a C# shell anyway.

Which is fine, because you wanted to separate your core application logic from the GUI anyway, right?

> I might just write the business logic in F# and glue things together with C#

It's a perfectly reasonable way to go.

The only difficulty is that it simplifies things if you don't try to do all the fancy FP stuff at the boundary between the F# and C# parts of the app. While there are ways to pass, say, a tuple from F# to C# and cope with it on the C# side, it's better to limit types at this interface to things both languages support as first-class citizens: arrays, objects, simple scalars, etc.
Ok. Your claim was a few hundred thousand dollar difference; I suppose we could quibble about what constitutes a nice car, but >$100,000 buys you a Z-06 or a Jaguar XJ. It's quite the exaggeration, unless your tastes run very extreme. To which I say: the only nice computer is a Cray :).
Idk, it never occurred to me the need for a library that does more than "for line in sys.stdin:" but less than what you can easily write in under a minute.
About the same as Apple Watch for lefties right? (source: am leftie)
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Your statement is false and your statement also does imply the things you think it doesn't.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front gives me precisely what I see on 'Front'. Browsing from Denmark, CET.
So I found a service https://paddle.com/

Saying that they can handle all sales tax for me, because they are a reseller of my product. Is this true? Is anybody using it? Any other alternatives?
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The suspect appears to use the tunnels to escape, not the stations

>Then, he disappears, most likely through the subway tunnels and out an emergency exit.
>if it's done properly...

And this is the reason that composting never took hold in antiquity. For the ancients, who may not have had as much scientific knowledge, burial and cremation could be done improperly, and still provide a sanitary means of disposal of the deceased. You try to compost the deceased in an ancient society lacking the proper techniques, facilities, and medical care, and I'd imagine you'd just be bringing a whole world of problems down on your village or town.
Its interesting but for these kinds of projects its the software library that will mean everything to how well this goes. I'm not going to spend that much for a device to play tech demos when I already have handheld gaming devices
Cookies still work on mobile and ITP can be bypassed. Cookies are still king.

It is just that trackers are relying more on first party cookies than 3rd party ones.
That's not what the rejection of this proposition indicates. The shareholders are not saying, "Amazon, sell to anyone no matter how bad." They are saying, "Amazon, continue using whatever processes you are already using to determine who to restrict from using this product."

It is very common for people who have a particular issue that they care about to attempt to require the board of a company to handle that issue. But if big companies acquiesced to all such requests, the board would take on a large workload, making sometimes detailed decisions where they have no expertise.

Company owners delegate much of their authority to boards. Boards delegate much of their authority to employees. I am sure there will be entities to which Amazon would not offer facial recognition services. But that decision does not need to be made at the level of the board. BTW, this is why management almost always fights such propositions: it ties the hands of the company to use an inefficient decision process, for no provable gain on any worthwhile metric.
Hadn't thought of it as old school, but I guess you're right. I've been doing it for a long, long time. Predating tablets by quite a bit. Occasionally get funny looks, but it works for me.
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Almost feel like that's not so distant. Imagine how fewer people we would recognize if we weren't regularly pinged with an update about them or their picture scrolled passed on a device.
TLDR: police brutality in the US doesn't matter because you can be sent off to a job center in China. Alright.
Even closer to this is the Arduboy[1]. I've had one for a while and even wrote a Tetris game for it. It's SO tiny and light!

[1] https://arduboy.com/
IQ is known to be genetic. Natural selection has been interfered with by universal healthcare and social programs in many countries, where intelligence and educational attainment have become negative predictors of reproductive success, especially for women. The findings of this study should not be unexpected.
I've got a headless UDP multicast networking app in F# that runs just fine on Windows, macOS, and Linux. If that's not miles from Microsoft's traditional core app market, I don't know what is.
change the name.
Sometime there are words where you can drop vowels and it still works. But if someone said this name to me at a party I would not know how to put in, or even come close to guessing.
Superconductivity near room temperature
Try a Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 with Linux On Dex.
Welllll I did run Gentoo some years ago, so... not that baseless :). But you really don't have to work hard to get a quite nice (but not world-beating) car for $20k.
But did invent the term "Object-Oriented Programming"
What we're doing in Java is letting you choose, for each sequential computation, whether you want a heavyweight (kernel) thread or a lightweight usermode thread (like a goroutine), and if you choose the latter, you can use your own scheduler (schedulers are written in Java, and aren't a part of the runtime). No promises, no observables, no async/await, and no thread control issues.
Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
It's disingenuous to not mention that cnex was founded by ex-employee(s) of Huawei and Huawei sued to enforce non-compete contract (which is unenforceable in CA).
Why do we still allow people to use cash? How much humanitarian good could we do by banning it once and for all? Gold is also a potent laundering tool, it can be re melted at a low temperature. It’s shocking that it’s still allowed.
I agree. I have encouraged several people with squatting problems to squat low bar and it sorted out there issues very quickly.
This is interesting, but I can think of lots of things I'd put on the side of the device to make it unique besides a crank. It's an oddly specific way to provide analog and/or constant input (if it does indeed crank 360 degrees) from the player. An actual analog stick? A dial? A trigger? A switch lever? A touch sensitive pad? A trackball?

Maybe these guys are really into fishing?
Kudos to Hims and Roman. Their branding and comms strategy are on point, and they've tapped into a longstanding insecurity for men. I can't help but feel like this is applying the same sales strategy used often in women's beauty products -- pointing out flaws then selling you a solution -- but with an added premium for discretion and 'hiding your shame.' Then consolidating all your 'shameful' purchases into a one-stop shop by selling hair-loss products? Genius.

I mean, where else are you going to go? Fess up to your doctor? Stand in line at Walgreens? Some shady site on the dark web?
This looks amazing. I love the aesthetic. I wish I could bring myself to commit to such a large hobby project.
There are obviously serious problems with law enforcement in the united states. Although I think that these mostly manifest in face to face encounters with the poor, people of color, and the mentally ill. I can't think of many recent cases where local law enforcement's application of information technology resulted in gross injustice.
Well, that sounds about right from my experience, for some type of code and organizations.

The original developers have left after a few years, newcomers don't understand the system and may not even try to. It will ultimately get rewritten in newer technologies and frameworks, that happen to be nice for their resume, whether it was obsolete or not.
is it the mayor?
This thing gonna have an SDK?
One cctv camera in each cab would solve the problem.
Most people in US prisons have never had a trial. 95% of our criminals plead guilty, without trial.

It is, indeed, apples to oranges, but we've got no shortage of problems in our justice system.
In my mind selling facial recognition seems no different than selling a hammer. It’s amoral, it can be used for good or bad.

Id much rather see laws to limit when and how the technology can be applied.
Because the 3.8 beta (and hence 3.8 feature freeze) is next week, and there's basically no chance of completing the PEP in time to make that cutoff.
Was thinking "this looks like a teenage engineering product" right as "Teenage Engineering" came on screen.
I use my personal laptop 80% for coding and maybe 20% for writing, so I guess this isn't for me unfortunately. I definitely can see how the single-tasking and LTE would be beneficial.
I love those plans. The Eiffel Tower is so splendid that I never realized until reading this article that I felt uneasy with the surrounding area. Bad feng shui or whatever. This brings the Tower’s environment into better harmony with the structure itself.
Hmm, should perhaps this be worthy of a major version number bump? Yes, it's not as large or as breaking of a change as the 2.7->3.0 transition, but by removing modules from the standard library, backwards compatibility is being broken. Now, perhaps most people don't use those features anymore, but for those people who do use and rely on these modules, a major version number change would be a welcome signal that their code will no longer work with the new version.

But, after the initial pain of the 2.7->3.0 transition, I doubt we'll ever see another major version number jump, even if a logical use of version numbers would merit it.
Which I reckon is, more than anything else on this page, why this is never going to take off.
Slow reply because I was looking for an author I found out a few years ago through a friend, read one book by, thought it was great, and then completely forgot his name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pelevin

I might have one more author, if it turns out the book wasn't by the guy above. Unfortunately, I don't even remember the name, and I don't see it in his bibliography.
I don't think it's about "feeling cool", come on. I think the advantage is that you can do it all online without having to go to a doctor and discuss your erection problems in person.
I hope so. I'm getting paranoid about visiting foreign countries, since I match too many supposed "highly suspicious" behaviours.
Yeah but everyone on this site will tell you that laws and regulations are horrid evil things.

So if we can't expect anything from the corporations because we should be looking to laws, and if we can't pass laws because they are evil hindrances to corporations, then what should we do?
37knots 12-18 knots of wind

Wow. I couldn't get over how flat the thing sat in the water... no heeling at all. I guess that is a joint property of removing the mast (ie. reducing unnecessary vertical offset prior to thrust distribution across the hull) plus curved foils / mini-keels visible a the start and end of the video. Impressive stability given the low profile in the water.
> In Adventure, each room has a numeric ID, with an associated description in a table. Another table defines its short description. Another table lists which rooms lie relative to other rooms using their numeric IDs. This means that in order to add a room, one has to modify all of these tables, taking care not to cause any issues with those changes.

Our tooling is better now, but this basically describes the ECS model. There is nothing new under the sun...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
The Egg by Andy Weir http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
> Hims charges $28.50 for a monthly supply of finasteride, plus a $5 fee for an online physician visit. The drug can be had for half the price elsewhere.

Good luck finding a doctor to write you a scrip elsewhere for $5. Assuming you’re on the common high deductible plan you’re looking at $100+ for a 5-min appointment unless you can mention it in passing to during your annual checkup.

Can you take the scrip from these online pharmacies to your local one and get the $.15/pill pricing?
Yeah same here. I'm not sure I really buy it as control mechanism for playing though.
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> Regulating this technology seems like regulating encryption. Futile. You can never put the tech genie back in the bottle.

We've (effectively) put chemical warfare back in the bottle, regulations can be quite effective in shifting the public perception - but I won't argue that it's hard to do.
I am not really into typical bar scene; I tend to throw parties at home where I invite people of various backgrounds/age and have evening of fun (having a music & photo/cinematography studio at home is handy). That is way simpler to do in those two cities I mentioned, where interesting people you know for a day or two want you even to attend their own social events; far more difficult when I tried to do it e.g. in Frankfurt. You get to know some very interesting people as locals tend to show off and bring you to some of their "local stars" and you get to soak culture directly (and on steroids). Still remember one guy bringing me to Bip Bip on Copacabana, introduced me to Alfredinho, and we spent evening discussing Brazilian life while having musicians performing various local songs, and you could soak the atmosphere, what makes Brazilians proud, the cracks and insurmountable issues they were facing daily, observe their blind spots my own culture handles better etc. You also get a crash course on what are advantages and disadvantages of their cultures if you are perceptive enough. With Germans, it's way more difficult and IMO not worth it for short-term stays (maybe Ossies are slightly different in this regard). Swiss & Austrians are even one level more opaque due to one more indirection layer.
I posted this below, but worth a repost "Andrew and I have been working together for 4 years on different things, we're just starting to put all this together and wanted to test the waters. But Andrew is Legit. I mean, his first and last name is right there in the username. So is mine.
As if you guys haven't copied terms from someone else..."
Real banks have been hacked (e.g. full mainframe root access), and the hackers have made international transfers which were reversed.

Sure. When bank accounts get hacked sometimes the bank just eats the cost, but if $100k goes to another bank they'll contact that bank to have the money be clawed back.

Now I say "reversed", but the end goal I mean is "the money was transferred back" because it's traceable and doesn't require the cooperation of the receiving account holder. Not that it gets "undone" in double-entry bookkeeping.

Indeed bank hacks have lost some money when the "reversal" incurred currency fluctuation effects. (which could have gone the other way, too).

Also no, regular bank transfers are very reversible because courts can order it so. The justice system can order accounts frozen. With cryptocurrency the illusion is "math is the ultimate arbiter", but of course "math" can't solve "so what happens if one party broke the law", but is forced to answer "well... I guess they win, then".

Also compare smart contracts. You can make an illegal contract. Say the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery. Smart contracts want there to be no court that says "actually, that's slavery, and this contract is void, also the money must be returned". To think that "math" can provide justice better than a justice system is not just holding low esteem for justice systems in general. It's anarchy, and tyranny by exploitation.

"People" are not lawyers, which is why some things are not allowed in contracts. "People" are not coders, which is why smart contracts are also not a thing that will happen (on a scale cryptocurrency people dream of).
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The one time I raised a ticket on a corp AWS account, it was handled swiftly and competently. I'm sure it depends much on what your issue is.
> "Amazon is [...] ruthlessly efficient..."

this part is capitalism working as intended and (mostly) as desired. the challenge of course is that it has also led to highly undesirable power structures (corporations, oligopolies, cabals, cartels, etc.) that increasingly eclipses the individual as principal agent. that's a failure (by omission) of capitalism.

while governments, communities and other social structures can contain that consolidation of power to some extent, subservience to corporate power is a looming threat for common folk. it's crucial to further codify and protect the equivalence of the individual and the corporation.

for instance, contracts (like EULA's) shouldn't be one-sided ultimatums inflicted on the indivudual, but the beginning of a negotiation between two equal parties. corporations would argue that the administrative overhead of this would be prohibitive, but that's the price for access to a lucrative market (and that sweet, sweet revenue stream).

in addition, corporations naturally have asymmetrical information advantages that need to be leveled in the exchange of value contemplated by an economic transaction. we have financial disclosure laws, for example, but they don't go far enough. basic information like the actual prices paid by other customers and the reasons for differences should be made available to the counter-party.
Ditto. Missed opportunity to charge while you interact. Imagine if the buttons also squeezed out charge as you hit them. Would be a fun concept.
That was my dad, in WWII. He was the only one in his unit who could do the math. He kept going AWOL but they couldn’t do more than bring him back down to private because no one else could do the trig.
Interesting article indeed. If anyone was curious and wanted to drill down to the source of the "Scala is Not a Functional Programming Language" discussion, surprise, the link is dead. Here's an archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20090517065705/http://enfranchise...
> Can you take the scrip from these online pharmacies to your local one and get the $.15/pill pricing?

I'd wager the bulk of the premium is in the discretion -- bland packaging that just shows up at your door -- so you don't have to look anyone in the face and ask for it. If you were okay with that, you'd just have done it at your annual physical like you suggested.
Actually pretty ease with Ali-Express, but I don't know how much that fulfills your reason to not buy from Amazon. The brick and mortar stores are probably never coming back like they were before.
https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.710395/google-konto-h...
That is precisely the point: to externalize and diffuse responsibility on an abstract concept ("the market") rather than hold its creators accountable.
AWS definitely has competitors you can switch to pretty easily, I think Amazon's retail side is the harder portion to jettison.
that's so sad that our so-called justice system is slanted just like a pro-football arena with preferences clearly given to the "home team" in their arena. It is literally etched in stone on the front of the US Supreme Court building: "EQUAL justice under law".
>There is no world in which you are not disgustingly greedy, unempathetic, and immoral to reject sales of facial recognition technology to abusive governments.

You need to re-word this sentence. I agree with what (I think) you're going for, but your words say something else.
The problem with single-purpose devices is they're a frivolous cost. When your phone can do everything, buying a separate dedicated device is inherently impractical. Of course, impracticality is also what tends to give things charm.

Put differently, limitations create interest, but they're also the opposite of cost-effective.
At that price, it likely wouldn't be e-ink. But even more so, the framerate of e-ink tech currently on the market isn't suitable for moving graphics. There are a few companies working on different ways to solve this problem but the existing e-ink patent is quite a thorn.
Yeah. Which is how this guy got hacked, too. Whether it's by forwarding or new sim card is a detail. It's the same social engineering vulnerability.
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Are you going to use a third party application for backups? How about sharing? The application you are building looks interesting!
And convenience too. I use Harry’s razors because the shopping experience is really nice, even though I could probably find a similar quality for cheaper elsewhere. Sometimes people optimize for ease rather than cost.
Costco online costs about $35-$40 PER YEAR for finasteride and it comes in just as bland a packaging as anyone else would send. I can't speak to the other products Hims sells. Hims is cheaper than CVS for generic finasteride but is 10x more expensive than Costco online.
That's an interesting interpretation of "Season One is included free of charge."
The linked article addresses the shortcomings of this explanation:

> One potential explanation was quasi-eugenic. As in the movie “Idiocracy,” it was suggested that average intelligence is being pulled down because lower-IQ families are having more children ("dysgenic fertility" is the technical term). Alternatively, widening immigration might be bringing less-intelligent newcomers to societies with otherwise higher IQs.

> However, a 2018 study of Norway has punctured these theories by showing that IQs are dropping not just across societies but within families. In other words, the issue is not that educated Norwegians are increasingly outnumbered by lower-IQ immigrants or the children of less-educated citizens. Even children born to high-IQ parents are slipping down the IQ ladder.

> Some environmental factor — or collection of factors — is causing a drop in the IQ scores of parents and their own children, and older kids and their younger siblings. One leading explanation is that the rise of lower-skill service jobs has made work less intellectually demanding, leaving IQs to atrophy as people flex their brains less.
I mean, not everyone... in fact I've always sort of assumed that those that push hard against regulations are the silicon valley crowd of folks - and you folks are fine folks, but that part of the world is just weird.