skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Which, by extension, means that Facebook will not control Libra."

And, if you believe that, I have a fine bridge in New York I'll sell you for a few Bitcoin.
I've wanted something like the Remarkable for years, but the cost is still way too high. The rocketbook has been a decent interim solution, but there is always the issue that I can't re-load and modify old notes.
Doesn’t (or didn’t?) X11 work by serializing every drawing operation and doing IPC? That’s been used on very old machines and is very responsive.
Yeah, I was thinking about hiring a growth hacking agency. Would you be willing to share the name of the agency you run? What's your experience with doing all of the marketing for a startup?
What's with the different sized circle plots without data labels?

This some sort of way to try to sneak in some exaggeration through visual tricks? Never seen this type of plot before where there wasn't some explanation or scale of what the size of the circle means.
"Why is this titled this way? This is not inherent or specific to iPhones."

My guess is that it's because that's what the article is about. Specific, named apps (for example "DoorDash"), running on an iPhone, and sending specific, named data ("device name, model, ad identifier and memory size") to other companies servers. So it's a very accurate title.

It's bizarre to complain about this with whatabout statements. It's like reading an article about soldiers from a given country killing civilians and saying that we already knew this, and that soldiers from other countries do it too. So what? This story is about this specific instance of it.
$ ps -eo rss,cmd |grep claws-mail|grep -v grep
36016 claws-mail

37 MB, 4 accounts open, one of them holding ~10.000 messages (i.e. which need to be archived but it not being my account I'm not the one to do so)
"home made" hahaha....
Nope. Gas is _much_ better than coal from a climate POV.

Natural gas is basically methane, CH4, when you burn it you're making CO2 and H2O (water) and you get energy out from both these changes.

But coal is much nastier, not only is there nitrogen and sulfur in there (which are both going to produce poisonous gases you'll need to do something about) but the ratio of carbon to hydrogen is much worse so we produce far more CO2 for the same amount of energy production.

Shutting coal plants and building gas plants instead makes a big difference. Not enough of a difference to prevent catastrophic climate change, but a big step in the right direction compared to subsidising coal.
I think we’ve seen it in different services and different orgs and at different sizes, but I guess it’s hard to set up an experiment :)
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I guess I'll have to buy the White Album again.
Are these just the 3rd party analytics servers used by a lot of Apps?

My UniFi dashboard always shows spikes around 3-5am. I figured it was mostly iCloud backups.
Amazing! I love it!

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

It's like The Treachery of Images but in reverse.

This is an AI/mind

c'est un cerveau / une intelligence artificielle
Australian state bans mobile phones in schools
If the only way to eat was to buy food insurance (offered as a benefit by your employer, of course) and get a prescription for one specific brand of that food, and the only foods available were those screened by the FDA for a decade and cost the food company $10 billion to bring to market, I predict three things:

1. Food would be extremely safe. Nobody would die of food allergies.

2. Food would be far more expensive than it is today.

3. More people would die of starvation.

If you ask any economist why the prices of certain drugs are so high, they will point out the lack of competition, the onerous and costly approval process, and consumer inability to comparison shop. They will not say it is because drug company execs are selfish bastards. The benefit of competition is that it doesn’t matter if people running the companies are purely selfish. The system forces them to provide a compelling product or they go out of business.
The $800B Market That Fuels Independent Retail
Seems that it works. It is a USD bank.

https://www.icomparefx.com/how-to-send-money-from-paypal-to-...
What is Market Basket Analysis and how it can increase your sales
One fact about it: It was the only one that worked well on a WebTV.

It turns out we had a lot of people in prisons using it, because some prisons had gotten WebTVs not knowing that the inmates could use it.

The Management didn't care, as long as there were pageviews. (Which I was directed to inflate by our CFO.)
No, specifically it was how it's not illegal, even though it's abusive. You're disputing that it's abusive. It is certainly lying. You may be fine with it. But it's lying.
Grand parent said they use a “credit card” abroad, implying they don’t use Monzo, or wouldn’t need Revolut. Monzo is a debit card.
I used mine to build an egg incubator this year, http://www.velvetcache.org/2018/03/04/chicken-cam-incubator-...
> Anecdotally, after the recession my in state tuition doubled because of less funding from the state

No, your state tuition doubled because of rampant spending increases underwitten by a limiless supply of student loans. Your state may have reduced funding somewhat, but that's not the primary cause of higher tuition.

Ask your state school system what it's employee:professor:student ratio is now vs 10 years ago. How many new buildings have been built in the past 10 years? And how do the construction costs compare to those built 20 years ago?
That sounds vaguely fraudulent, but I have no idea if it actually is or not.
I'd argue that despite all cries about non-native styling and behavior, MacOS Classic, OS X, Windows 95, OS/2, Next, Swing etc. had more in common with each other than they do with webapps (unless we're talking about ExtJS enterprise apps or the like).

This won't matter as much for rich-text chat apps or the like, which always looked horribly non-native, over-styled, skeuomorphic (cf. Trillian)…

But let's picture a database client or IDE. Those used to resemble regular desktop apps. Nowadays?

Note that I'm not arguing about your article or even approach, I was just chiming in on the dislike for Electron in general, where I think bloat is the least of our worries. All this wasn't something new, the downturn of desktop UIs started way before, as people are now used to mobile and webapps and expect that kind of look and feel everywhere. The OS manufacturers definitely seem to approve and comply.

You saw this happening in other places, before. Just look at enterprise Windows applications that were targeted to people used to terminal UIs (3270, VT220).
Current UI trends are the same, just with spurious rounded corners instead of closely-grouped form elements…
Developed by Asobo Studio[1], french video games studio in Bordeaux. I used to work there, top engineers, confident they'll do a good job.

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/06/17/ce-que-les-...
Microsoft as a whole pivoted hard from the PC as their preferred gaming platform to the XBOX as their preferred gaming platform. As for the whys at the time i assume they wanted to make sure that their console was competitive and didn't just die on launch. They probably also considered the PC gaming environment to be so healthy producer and publisher wise as to not find it worth their time to do in-house development for the platform anymore.
As for MSFlightSimulator it didn't fit in the console portfolio at the time, mostly because of how those systems are usually interacted with, and also because the install of a basic global world mesh is huge. Good luck landing a 747 with functioning cockpit knobs with an XBOX controller, and say goodbye to the limited hard drive of a console when you have to install 70GB of world mesh to make it the global experience everybody expects. So making it a good cross-platform game on 2002-2015 tech would have been an exercise in making both console and PC gamers unsatisfied.

What you see now though is that MSFT is pushing really really hard into cross-platform play, and investing directly in gaming companies to make sure that the XBOX remains a competitor to the Playstation environment as Sony has been on a roll when it comes to impactful exclusive games for their platform for a while. Their latest E3 presentation really showcased just how much they consider this a priority, and how hard they are currently working to get their own environment of exclusive publishing houses with AAA games up to the standard of Sony. Due to the narrowing of the gap between high powered consoles and high powered PC's in the later years it makes sense that they would do this now as at this point they can offer a flight simulator experience across both platforms that is (hopefully) not only incrementally better, but transitionary better.
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Interesting. Thank you for replying.

> So they are not allowed to sell it as a game, only as a learning and simulation tool.

That makes sense finally. I had noticed that when was using it and always thought they just didn't want to bother with the gaming part because there was not enough of profit for them to restructure having to support that market.
If you're willing to trust your hardware, you can theoretically program an SPI Flash chip one bit at a time using two debounced switches. I haven't tried running SPI at sub-kilohertz speeds, much less sub-hertz speeds, and it wouldn't be surprising if that failed to work on some hardware. But you can probably find hardware where it will work. A punched paper tape reader or barcode reader would be a more practical way of programming the Flash than manual toggle switches.

If you have a machine that can boot from floppy, you can use an untrusted system to write the floppy, and then verify the contents of the floppy with a magnetic force microscope or magnetic developer fluid, before booting it.

It isn't obvious why you would trust the hardware, though, if you didn't fabricate it.
This is the central bank telling you that bank deposits are socially harmful and you should do something else.

Too many people and institutions want to make a risk free investment, but those risk free investments do not actually exist in the economy. Banks get pressured to loan to Greece or subprime home owners or subprime car loans or African dictators or whatever the bubble of the day is.

People will tell you they have "no alternative" (we're a pension fund, think of the widows and orphans, etc...) but the money you put in the bank will not be there in 20 years if the problem persists. It might be there formally, but between inflation, deflation, defaults, immisseration of some people at the expense of others, it will have degraded spending power or be offset by damage done to the economy at large.

Spend the money now on consumption or spend the money on a productive investment. Building a house may be a good idea, but buying an existing house or buying land to hold it is being part of the problem not part of the solution.
Ah, I was more thinking about the computer-and-screen form factor. But I see that was unclear on my part :)

Have to look at that iOS thing. Would be interesting.
It's not entirely free: those companies are paying $10M to run a Libra node. That's still pocket change as a hedge in case it actually takes off.

So maybe they're happy to shut up for now, let Zuck take the regulatory flack, and if it seems like Libra will take off on FB's efforts, they're positioned to benefit from adoption.
Literally every major OS in existence has swap enabled by default. Linux, Mac, windows.

The alternative is for things to start crashing when you run out of memory rather than swapping out.
I can't help but think that Facebook doomed this "distributed ledger" possibility by trying to be first to market with a tarnished brand.

The developing world would hugely benefit from a scalable technology that can efficiently service digital transactions. The piece demonstrates this with how quickly WeChat Pay and Alipay penetrated China.

I can't imagine the possibility for prosperity when 3 billion consumers enter the global economy in a matter of years.

Alternative currencies were always going to have to compete (or at least deal with) with powerful governments, and all the most powerful governments are most easily manipulated by appealing to a mass audience.

The Facebook brand isn't capable of doing that right now. There's far more incentive for politicians to talk about breaking Facebook up than to encourage Facebook to embed itself in the financial lives of their constituents.

If a decision is made to breakup Facebook, spinning off Libra will be right at the top of the list. I can't see how it survives as a stand-alone technology without the support of Facebook's network effects.
Actually it's both. As well as pharmacy benefit managers, doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies. They all inflate prices. See http://truecostofhealthcare.org/conclusion/ (scroll to the "Where is all this money going" section)
I'm fairly certain that @leoc was alluding to a "hostile takeover" of TSMC being part of a hostile takeover of Taiwan.
Something I haven't seen yet: If my computer has a bit of malware land on it, do I lose my entire wallet worth of Libra irrevocably? If so, this seems pretty questionable as a mass-market money...
George Dantzig invented Simplex for this problem.
I'm curious, what makes you prefer Trusted Advisor's view on limits?
If they are competent at making drugs, would they simply be competition? How would it be more dystopic?

If they manage to undercut gouging, that should lead to lower insurance costs and put pressure on the rest of the industry to control costs too...
Finally, as Apple would say.
> but if both sides are worse off at the end than at the beginning... why do it?

Some fun philosophical questions...

Do you actually know that both sides are worse off at the end?

How do you personally believe this should be measured? How confident are you that that measurement approach is correct? What is the definition of "correct" in this context?

Do you conduct your measurements at two discrete snapshots in time: before and after? Are consequences 5, 10, 50 years down the road irrelevant, both in theory and in fact?

If you are measuring GDP, do you think looking at the aggregate national level is satisfactory? Might there be some unintended consequences lurking in the shadows waiting to bite you in the ass if you ignore regional GDP?

Do the very real (democratic) consequences of people's opinions matter in your measurement, or are you content with measurements limited to the the theoretical world, where people behave as they "should"?

It's interesting how easily technical people can see the complexity in their software models, but seemingly remain blind to the complexities of planet earth and human nature.
This is timely. Our startup just had an article written about our use of SBIR grant funding with some tips at the end:

https://bbcetc.com/sbir-related/ann-arbor-company-is-an-engi...
I'm crossing my fingers that this pseudo crypto money never takes off. Having Facebook control this would be so terrible and the proof that we didn't learn anything over the last couple months. Don't fool yourself even though they released a white paper and some pseudo decentralized schemes this is no different than a casino chip.

Unfortunately I feel like it might pick up and become a thing.
That’s a shame. Therapy can be such a useful tool for anybody.. mild to serious symptoms. I suppose their issue must be one of supply though because finding therapists in SF taking new patients on a more typical insurance plan was also a pain.
how nice
> without the productivity-consuming and mentally burdensome “borrow checker” of Rust

The borrow checker also gives you memory safety, which Zig does not have at the moment.

Solving use-after-free and related issues is a hard problem. I have yet to see a way to solve it that doesn't boil down to one of runtime garbage collection, not allowing heap allocation at all, not freeing memory at all, or a region system/borrow checking. It's fine to not like the borrow checker, but it's there for a reason.
I worked for a company doing SBIRs. The overhead for taking advantage of these is insane. You need people who understand how to get through the contract process and all the legal requirements. You have to use incredibly bad time tracking software and deal with yearly time tracking and budget audits. Your IT systems must be locked down but in a way defined by the government, not necessarily industry best practices. Finally, as others have mentioned, you have to deal with the politics of defense contracting. Ultimately you'll just be beat out by one of the many small or medium size companies that literally exist to farm these if it hasn't already been given to a large established DoD contractor.
Critical vulnerability in Outlook for Android affects more than 100M users
>You don't have to "talk" with a CSR online, it's a chat window

What do you consider talking online, if not chat?
I don't think I ever made the claim they were free. There's nothing free in life, so making a statement like that is not really productive.
I really think their play with Libra is to become a new M-PESA rather than a Paypal. They've got a good shot at doing it. Still makes no sense to me for it to be a cryptocurrency though?
I guess I wouldn't know. Only a few months, yes, but my heating bill is always higher than my cooling bill. I think the difference is that electricity is cheaper than gas, and my heating at various houses and apartments has always been gas? Not sure.

Last couple of years I've switched to using a radiant heater that's in whatever room I'm in, and that has helped.
Because Hacker News is largely populated by "finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers", in JWZ's memorable phrase, whose votes it unfortunately weighs as highly as yours, mine, or oriansj's.
I'm sure Zuck & Visa signed an agreement that says "We agree to talk about some tech ideas and do some exploration under the name 'Libra' with no commitment from either party long term for anything." The talk about having to pay 10 million dollars is a red herring, I guarantee you Visa hasn't paid FB anything so far.
notkid...a green account 12 hours old. Who are you? Contact me from your .gov or .mil address and I'll reply. And following that, if you want a public reply, OK.
Is this it? Biologizing the Machine (terra incognita) by artist Anicka Yi?

https://bagrifoundation.org/anicka-yi-la-biennale-di-venezia...

If this is what you are talking about, I'm disappointed that the work is crap. She also won the Hugo Boss prize in 2016. This is a highly respected award in the art world.

The art world isn't doing a good job understanding AI. Part of this is media hype causing people to be misled. Another part is the cognitive tools artists have developed to understand the world are inappropriate for understanding these technologies. For this work to be believable by technologists there would need to be some kind of demonstrable scientific rigor involved. There is none here, but people from the art world who are evaluating these things don't notice it is missing.
Also advantages of physical instruments are that you map a mental model to the instrument itself and IF the instrument is built properly and has a good workflow after a while you don't need to look at it, muscle memory translates intent to an action, becomes more intuitive and the flow is uninterrupted. The experience is immediate.

On the other hand, physical synths take a lot of space, break down, are hard to setup if connected together, some require batteries to keep the settings and patches alive and the battery could sometimes be a pain to reach to and change. I had a Yamaha SY-77, which was amazing by the way, the battery failed and the screen was dim. I gave up attempting to replace it myself, it required taking apart most of the screws and the operation itself was a couple of hours.

I started on VSTs but I think i learned a lot more by playing with physical synths and it was way more fun too. I kept them always on and whenever I had an itch to play I didn't have to open a project, click click, choose the instruments, sometimes being phased by so many options that the itch went away. Also sticking with a synth that didn't seem promising at first proved to be very rewarding after all, I'd discover interesting setups that I didn't think were possible. With VSTs I had dozens but can't say I felt like exploring in depth, I had no favorite VST, they all seemed to sound very similar.

VSTS have advantages though. You come back to an old project and want to modify something and bam, everything is setup the way it was when recorded. You make a mistake and you easily go and edit out the mistake without re-recording. All in all I'd say to look at VSTs when you are more production inclined. If you just want to be creative and play and learn at the same time without so many stops to make choices, physical synths are a good investment. Physical synths and a physical mixer!
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Just make sure it isn't a GET, per a discussion the other week...
The real manufacturing cost is of course lower than the old $177/month cost.

These cases from the last 1-2 decades are always because of FDA regulations. The drug is out of patent, any manufacturer is allowed to make it, but the FDA regulations for actually starting up manufacturing are so difficult and time consuming that whoever is left as the only manufacturer of a rare drug can crank up the price from $177 to $43k, and ride on that profit wave for a few years while FDA processes competitors applications.

More sad detail here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/24/the-problems-with-gene...
apple has been promoting themselves as the safe and private operating system. Tim Cook would probably argue that it's not newsworthy when android apps steal from you.

Articles like this put apple's claims in context: even if the OS is nicer to you, it's hard to tame the apps.
Maybe we can store libra in some sort of institution that would provide some guarantees, like returning your libra if they get stolen. They could make money by investing the libra they hold and keeping the interest.
I think you're right to question. The rule of thumb I've heard, which seems sensible to me, is is the condition/symptom negatively affecting your ability to go about your day-to-day life. If not, then whatever you're experiencing is probably "normal enough". There's no great mass of people with completely by-the-book mental processes; everyone's a little "weird" in some way.

On the other hand, I suppose you may not be able to evaluate that question fully yourself. It's hard to see your own mind clearly.
Not with nativescript.. you just use the brand new api
It'd be nice if there was a better abstraction of Qt for cross platform usage. Something like how React components work, have a library of common layouts, could even specialize in Material to make a more narrow scope. Basically pick your frame layouts and can tie in logic to those possible interactions.
I don't think that it's as common to write or read

I'll be there in 5'

Also, since this is a sign seen from about 10-15 meters away, using an apostrophe might lead to confusion (it might not be clear to read).

The aesthetics of the big flashing words are also intentional. Way, way back in my brain there was definitely [0] playing while I was creating this. :-)

[0] * * * WARNING A lot of Flashing Lights! * * * https://www.yhchang.com/SAMSUNG_MEANS_TO_COME_V.html