skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's buried way down the article that all the clips are user submitted. I don't like these cloud surveillance devices, but I like even less being lied to by the media.
I sure hope that's the goal, or else we wouldn't be able to afford our real goal.
We played games like this back in university, doing all sorts of simple off-the-cuff data transformation and extraction. It taught me an eternal respect for the Unix command line as a quick way to hack up data into a usable shape, and it still helps me regularly to this day.
But if they legally change age, the legal age is what would count for retirement.
That’s not how this works. Apple is one of the wealthiest companies in the world, and saying “just don’t spend money there” is a bit reductionist and trivializes the problem of corporations with more power than nation-states.

You need to fight fire with fire: governments of the world (especially the US government) need to create laws that restrict and punish this kind of behavior. Otherwise, I sincerely doubt Apple’s going to even notice the missing couple hundred thousand dollars of revenue because of principled “voting with your wallet”.
The Guardian is operationally in the UK, but its ownership is sited in an offshore trust.
Incorrect. Amazon says it was not about the politics[0]. Plus, Amazon is still coming to NYC anyway, because there was still demand for an office there[1]. But now NYC gets it for free rather than paying billions in subsidies.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/10/amazon-reveals-the-truth-on-...

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/amazon-is-reportedly-eyeing-of...
Psychologists have a term "self efficacy" -- as far as I remember from my graduate educational psychology courses, the best predictor of whether someone will succeed in learning something challenging is whether they believe they can do it.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy
I would like to think the public back-and-forth over this app is a sign of internal conflict within Apple over whether or not to list the app on the App Store. Unfortunately, it seems more likely that everyone is against removing it but too scared of China's retaliation to act on their convictions.
It's also hard to miss for most people outside the US because a whole lot of them are still very directly affected by the consequences of this whole "crusade on terror" [0] going on to this day.

In that context, there is quite some massive cynicism at play when the US celebrates itself for denying Chinese officials visa over the treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, when the US also refused visa to ICC officials wanting to investigate the treatment of Muslims in "NATO occupied" Afghanistan [1].

Particularly in the context that the US was quite on-board with the "Uighur Jihadis!" narrative not too long ago [2].

[0] https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/15/mike-pompeo-...

[2] https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/analysts-uighur-jiha...
Not trying to be argumentative just mentioning as an ex-GIS guy that it's impossible to meaningfully measure any coastline. Read about the coastline paradox it's quite interesting.
The HQ2 jobs don't exist in Crystal City yet, either. Let's not count chickens before they hatch... particularly with Amazon quietly continuing to hatch chickens in NYC anyways.

NYC doesn't seem like it's struggling to attract jobs.
> I am not arguing that at all, you are arguing that there are plenty of alternatives, implying they are just as good quality wise. They are simply not.

I am not implying that. You have alternatives, and they are less convenient, but more respectful of your rights. You get to make a choice, depending on a trade-off between your values.
Weirdly, middle school was one of the high-points of grade school for me. It saw the initiation of nearly every important interest and passion that I have (mostly by coincidence, but still):

- Middle school band introduced me to music - both listening and playing - which was life-changing for me. Band remained the best thing in my life through the rest of gradeschool, and music still is.

- I learned to play guitar for the first time, joining a wonderful freeform after-school club for it

- I discovered Tolkien, JRPGs, and Morrowind (and their respective music), all of which seeded my imaginative life in ways that are still felt today

- I tried programming for the first time (over a summer), awakening another passion and putting me on a trajectory for my future career

Socially, middle-school was rough. But that was true for pretty much all of grade school. And inwardly, middle school was amazing. I still look back on it fondly.
It’s extremely worrying how far Apple bends over to appease China. First censoring the Taiwan flag, now deliberately removing this app after initially refusing it.
I run a NEST Hello and Nest Cam Indoor/Outdoor IQ system. Everything is streamed to the cloud. I was able to catch the local criminal breaking into homes.

One of the neighbours has an 12 camera setup with a NVR. They just took the NVR.
I'm a former embedded software guy and I can explain a bit more. Hardware is extremely capital intensive, takes a long time for any return, and the margins tend to be pretty mediocre. Around the mid-2000s many embedded developers wound up getting siphoned off into mobile development (back to around Symbian times) which was far higher up the stack than doing anything with micro controllers, RTOS, etc. The embedded software community is mostly a bunch of electrical engineers that learned software second and this can be a small handicap against pure software people that learned hardware far later. Absolutely there are still great engineers doing embedded work in the US, but it's a shrinking market in a lot of ways and very regionally concentrated (not just _any_ metro area will do for stable employment - places in Texas or outside Boston were dominant).

I left embedded dev because I saw this coming and I'm just a slow developer that wouldn't have cut it with the demands of mobile software emphasizing cranking out stuff faster when that's just not how I work.
It really is that good. I’ve been using it only over a year, but I’ve done a lot of build system work with different tools and Bazel stands out.

Most other tools seem to be competitors to Make (SCons, Jam, tup), souped-up scripting systems (Ant, Gradle), or configuration toolboxes (CMake). The ones that really stand out are the tools that tackle the problem of expressing builds in a way that’s both expressive and declarative. In my mind, these fall into two families: Gyp and Bazel (which includes Buck, Pants, Please.build, and that new custom thing Chrome uses).

(And then there’s Ninja, which I appreciate for taking a good / useful subset of Make’s features and doing it really well.)
I'm familiar with "asked to resign"; I was asking about the form "they resigned him", which I have not encountered before and which moves it from generally understood euphemism to utterly transparent word replacement.
I own a gym, and it's always interesting listening to what the trainers, all nice looking fit guys, worry about, and their own self-confidence issues.
Apple has actually been quite smart here. Everyone knows the limiting condition that we are seeing in the world right now. What Apple has achieved is to allow the app to be downloaded for several days and then to make an appeasement. We see a similar strategy used by NBA in recent times. It is undoubted that such a play will receive flame from both sides, but as such they haven't really taken sides and yet also have answered to calls.
It's a billionaire controlled media empire. You want them to suddenly care about something other than money? I think you chose the wrong media to follow.
If only Android team cared to use it instead of Gradle.

Android is probably the only platform where almost at every conference there is a regular talk on how to improve build times.

Not even C++ conferences talk so much about build times.
Ha! Just yesterday, everyone was talking about Apple as bastions of user privacy, etc., only for them to put profit over principles AGAIN in less than a week. It's just so shameful, but I guess that's capitalism working its magic and putting shareholder profits above all else. Not that Apple is any different from any other megacorp, but they sure do like to pretend like they have principles and care about users. Turns out they only care for those who don't threaten their bottom line.
Why should the average American pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes?

They shouldn't. All should pay $0 taxes.

We expect adults be financially independent after a few decades. The gov't, with its ability to literally make money along with other unique powers, should be financially independent after 225 years.
Hey guys capitalism is going to protect us from dictators. Corporations are our friends. ..Guys?
Making these kinds of moves can prove costly. If you’re hiding cash in your home, you’re not able to take advantage of compound interest, which helps your money grow exponentially the longer you have it invested.

Over here in the UK the highest interest you'll get on a savings account at the moment is about 0.5%, and most accounts give much less. While compound interest is a factor, it's a trivial one. The interest you're getting on money in the bank isn't going to save you in a recession.
>Billionaires have to at least be competent enough to make their money, and shelter it from the thieving governments and other leeches etc etc etc

and

>rather than being told at implied gunpoint to do what a bunch of ignorant strangers

You are clearly emotionally driven on this issue so it's probably best that I step out of this discussion. You have a good day guy.
>Measuring Hong Kong's importance for China by its GDP is as useful as measuring your eyes' importance to you by their weight.

Interesting. How does Hong Kong function as China's "eyes" in your analogy?
Site must be getting hammered. I can't get it to come up.
I was at a high school that laid down a zero-tolerance policy against bullying.

In practice, zero-tolerance turned into a blanket "we don't want to put up with any disruptions" policy.

Provoking an outburst out of a target meant consequences for the victim that could be as bad or worse than the aggressor's.
I strongly recommend reading https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/10871#issuecomment-5404526...

which was written a few hours ago broadly in the vein of Lean vs. Coq, more precisely on the issue of how Lean handles quotients.
No, this is companies betting that the few percent of the American market they are losing by behaving this way will be outweighed by getting access to the Chinese market.

If this was a straight-up choice between only the US market or only the Chinese market, they would be picking the US.

Protestors have to change that calculus.
Homegrown sentiment against Apple will very quickly turn the company in the right direction. None of these large companies can afford to completely neglect their home territories.
Which is still broadly missing the point.

What the tweet says: "None of these major companies are your friend. Some are better than others, but none of them, when push comes to shove, care about you."

How HN is responding: "But Apple's still technically the best amoral company, right? I mean, if we're gonna rank them. Let's rank them."

I agree that people need to be pragmatic about the companies they interact with. Realistically, very few people are going to cut the entirety of FAANG out of their lives, so ranking has some value. But don't let ranking companies get in the way of recognizing that when push comes to shove, even the least bad companies will still throw you under a bus for a buck.

That's all the tweet was saying -- recognize that Apple is also an amoral company. Be pragmatic, not loyal. The people on here setting up company tiers are missing that point.
> The same can't be said for the government.

Sure, if we pretend roads, emergency services, public schools, safer cars, hell, the very Internet we're posting on don't exist.

> The only reason health care is so expensive in the US is because of government regulations.

And yet, highly regulated, government-run European healthcare costs half what it does here.
I'd prefer the government spent the same amount as taxing. Or it does very thoughtful borrowing. (There are arguments about whether a government should have debts, and I don't think that's particularly salient to your point, but I can only assume you want taxes higher than spending to either pay off debt, or save for a rainy day.)

How do the rich think about money and spending? Everything is an investment (or an intentional extravagance to enjoy a little bit of that money.) So there's going to be literal investing (financial vehicles) but also influential investing to ensure things go the way they want. Money at that level doesn't magically translate to power without thoughtful investment.

Anyway, I think we're saying some of the same things. But I don't like the statements saying that we can't examine taxes being paid or spent. We should be working towards that being more transparent - not necessarily that we need to make public the private financial details of everyone (or just the particularly rich), but that there's, at least on the government side, a clear picture of how the various tax policies are being exercised and adhered to.
Queensland to fast-track laws to crack down on climate protesters
Argument can be made that the mind can change the body just as the body can change the mind. But yes, the notion that "state of mind is a product of everything else going on in the body" does make it easier for empirical studies.
If by "the wealthiest" you mean millionares and billionaires, then you must also know that they have ways to move their money around to avoid those taxes. Some programmer with 200k wage, living in an ultra expensive city, doesn't.
The 30% pays for the infrastructure, more than the client. Besides, the client has added controller support (even for games that don't support controllers), big picture mode, family sharing, streaming, and just recently online emulation of local co-op.

To put that in perspective: Epic still does not have a shopping cart.
Never happened, never will happen. You have thousands of gallons of e-ink spilled over police brutality in HK, a few drops on Iraq, and humm-hawws and 'well, they are all terrorists anyways' on Gaza.

Otherwise intelligent people are incapable of understanding that their outrage is being directed to serve geo-political ends. Antagonising China is patriotic. Antagonising Israel serves no end, and is, also of course, anti-Semitic.

The truly ironic bit is when presented with the idea that many mainlanders may be more supportive of their government than of HK, they dismiss it as brainwashing, compelled speech, or just flat out propaganda. As if we arrive to the contradictory conclusions we hold independently, and from first principles, without any steering...
Other things:

reflect.StructOf is broken if you use embedded fields
Really!

https://www.dickwitham.net/used-inventory/index.htm
If the goal is to react to children jumping into the street, you're right, it wouldn't work.

If the goal is to have the car be able to ask for help when it's confused though, it would likely be fine.
Useless Self-Help Guide(xkcd) Offers Ludicrous Solutions to Everyday Problems
Terrible developers, poor framework and design choices.
> with different priorities?

The point that started this all off is that HN has different priorities and those priorities disallow you from deleting accounts.

There's nothing to defend here, deleting your account is a 100% reasonable request.
I'm using all sort of building blocks, I recall functions, views, custom types, triggers, publications on per-table basis. In most cases I don't allow for my schemas to divert, but there had been situations like developing next generation of the system where for reasons out of my memory I had to wait till job was done and then merge schemas. Probably this could have been avoided but in the same time I was not there when decisions was made :)
“The top 20% pay 87% of [federal income tax]” is only a meaningful statement in context of percentage of income they make. What’s that number?

OTOH the top 400 households in the US paid a lower tax rate than any other group who owed anything last year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...
You just said sex work pays because 'we' look cynically/suspiciously at it. Really?

Sex work pays because people want a form of pleasure and are willing to pay for it. There is demand and some people are willing to provide supply.

So I'll ask again, since you didn't really answer the question, why not recognize it as a legitimate profession?
This is great, awesome. I'm going to toy around with the lib. Also love the focus of the project.
I use bazel at work heavily in a very large project. I’ve always worked with scripting languages so I’m much less familiar with build systems.

I’m not sure I get what makes bazel so good. It seems pretty simple to me. You have a bunch of directories with BUIILD files that are each sort of like Makefiles.

Am I missing something? It kind of just seems like a hodgepodge of scripts. I don’t dislike it, but I’m also not seeing anything amazing.
Doesn't amazon pay road taxes for their trucks (or whatever they're called over there)?
> More expensive than any public system, with worse outcomes for the general population.

That presupposes the US would have a cheaper system if it were public. (Also most European systems aren’t “public systems” but that’s a separate issue.) We spend more per student on our public education system than almost every other OECD country, to get far worse results. Our public transit systems spend several times as much money per mile to build transit, again to get worse results. There are scant few examples of the US public sector being competitive with those of well-run European countries. (In fact I can’t think of any.) Remarkably, Canada’s non-military government spending per person is lower than America’s non-military government spending, and Canada offers significantly more services for less money.

I don’t think it is at all clear that costs wouldn’t go up under a public healthcare system in the US.
> However, I refuse to give any company credit for waking up their support team only when a scathing article about them frontpages on Hacker News. I told them I wouldn’t publish a positive follow-up unless they also convinced me that the support experience had been fixed for the typical user as well.

You are a gem and I wish more people were like you.
This study uses a different vector and targets a different gene.

The NIH study uses a modified HIV to introduce the complete gene for the defective protein.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2019/sickle-cell-patients-rec...

This study uses CRISPR/Cas9 to increase expression of a gene that the patients already have.
Oh yes, writing patch is one thing, write migration is the next level.
You yourself neglect to acknowledge there's also civil war kicking off in Ecuador right now.

People outside conflict areas only start to give a shit when it affects something they care about personally.
Crimea might not have been much of a conflict zone but Eastern Ukraine was.
Words like "credible" and "unexpected" sort of make it impossible to answer the question

I guess I could reword. Is there more than a remote chance the patient dies because of an error related to the gene editing?
I think the issue is more about Apple's acquiescence. My guess is protesters require a VPN at this point to access the map's server regardless of it they do so through the app or the website. The technical barrier is there regardless, but the fact that Apple is making clear what their values are worth merits discussion.
Brain tissue kept alive for weeks on artificial membrane
Not in my experience.

Most Americans are angry about the president or some senator. Medicare? FBI? The US Navy / Air Force / Army? The police? Most Americans love those. (When did you last see a group of people asking for the disbanding of the FBI? Heck, for the disbanding of the IRS even.)
> I don't get why other people care

Because other people are not you and have different things they want. I know that must be difficult to accept, but it is true.
How is the ability to amass resources relevant to competence in determining the appropriate allocation?

That's like saying that winning a game makes you competent to referee it.
You could also create an MDM profile from Apple configurator and disable the lighting port to only be used for charging.
New Vector (the guys behind the Matrix protocol) have just raised $8.5M funding
With all this building up expectation of something "magic" I was hoping for more than a simple use of scp. Quite disappointing.
Oh for sure! There are so many different FU cards, money being the obvious one
How many people have died in these huge, violent and destructive protests that have been raging for months?
yes, unclear if the action (sent) is implicit or explicit
Pretty sure it's this: https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/
>> My friends didn't have such support and suffered from it

Could the real difference maybe be the homelife? The act of supporting you in spite of bullying and school administrators in some sense communicates to you that you are worthwhile and ought to be confident.
Maybe the bullying in your friends lives compounded a lack of confidence unintentionally fostered in their homelives?
Agreed, was impossible to view on mobile. I just switched to desktop though.
Original issue thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049093
Yep. To be fair, it’s 211 app and 39 docs and data which I assume is a map cache

Facebook is 235 app size. These are both basically just clients for backend Rest, seems crazy at this size
That's a great insight that almost no body in the world really notice: hate speech. Hate is a very good tool to consilidate public and create personal identity extreme efficiently. The technique is used by Hitler and also by CPP in early time maybe without rational calculation.

After world war too hate speech is almost prohibited in all "civilized" countries. However there are 3 targets can be used without consequence: wall street bankers, politicians in Washington, rigemes usually are inferior in morality. The first 2 targets are virtual targets so they are used in election frequently. Not showing fighting spirit create personal identity by fooling people is a recipe for failure. Many politicians use the technique. Example: Rubio, Hillary, etc. China, Russia, are good target for boost support in election to show a fake hero image

Hate is human nature from evolution because human , not like any other species, were evolved not only from other environmental pressure but also from war and killing each other. It boosts the fighting capability of a tribes and promote consolidation. That's why it exist at first place. War is also part of human nature. To find excuse to attack others , creating evil is a good way to get public support. Western journalists are doing this job very well by distorting the reality and mix their interpretation into selected facts in a very deceptive way. All the direct and proxy wars in last 20 years (Except Afghan) are approved by public because of their work.

A good study of the topic should get nobel peace price. However, noble prize commitee itself has the same mentality as western journalists. A lot of winners a fake hero based on face value of commitees perception that eventually create more confilicts in the world.
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Why is an app needed to display things on a map? Isn't that something a website can do just fine?

Which brings up an interesting, more general topic:

Why do we need apps at all? What is the fundamental difference to websites?
So you want uncertified doctors, unvetted medications and health insurers to be able to do whatever they want to their captive customers. Got it.