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As far as I know, this is the first UK extradition request to be denied by the USA, while the UK has denied at least 10 extradition requests to the USA.

My information is from https://uk.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/policy-history/the.... Check the section on why it is easier to extradite in one direction versus the other. (Which hasn't yet been updated to include this refusal.)
This is a very disingenuous comparison. For any given food, there are a large number of both perfect and imperfect substitutes, which is very much not the cases for patented medicines. It is also much easier for individuals to grow their own food than it is to manufacture their own pharmaceuticals. But beyond that, food is one of the most regulated markets in modern society. Farm subsidies, food assistance programs like SNAP, strategic food reserves, and any number of other programs function as "soft" price controls. I don't think that "changing pharmaceutical regulations to match the food industry" means what you think it does.
Yes it is, or should be. I’d need more details to really work it out for your case. I will have a look at potential issues in the next few hours.

EDIT I tried and no issues on Windows. I would need more details to investigate. Please raise the issue on github and I will investigate.
Tell that to all the traders whose stop losses were triggered due to flash crashes
Conceivably, they could be able to conduct evasive maneuvers autonomously but be configured to seek control confirmation before executing maneuvers.

Or, maybe "will be" is the key phrase and its like Tesla full autonomy -- a feature planned to be implemented in software with the current hardware, but not yet done.
What about wifi? My understanding is this chain uses their in-store access point mesh for this.
I also got their original one a few years back! works surprisingly well for an almost medieval invention.
I think that comes from ignorance of the implications of uploading their photo, not from an inconsistency in what they want.
AI-powered robot warehouse pickers are now ready to go to work
this is the dumbest take on here. You think that because Facebook hasn't rewrote their apps in RN that RN must suck? What kind of evaluation for software is that.

They haven't rewrote in RN because it's unnecessary. Its not worth the engineering resources. There is so many things on the global product roadmap to build then rewrite something that already exists and works fine.

Like all software, RN is great for certain use cases. Just because someone isn't using it for X doesn't mean it also sucks for Y.
It matters to some people. Or, at least, it matters to me. The less data that is being phoned home, the more comfortable and happier I am.
Maybe find a friend to role-play the conversation with?
On Alpine it doesn't even download the wheel at all, it just downloads the source code.
When I bought my house, I absolutely compared forms. I had my laptop open on the table and went over the documents line by line. Yes, I had read everything before closing but I wanted to ensure everything was correct. I had found two mistakes, one in the mortgage document and one in the title company's math, prior to closing. It pays to review these things.

The handful of other people at the signing were mildly annoyed that I was being so cautious but I didn't care. It's my money. I'm normally a polite and shy person but if I had a question and everyone else was making small talk, I would just start talking.
Pretty sure he already has a path there...
NSF’s Newest Solar Telescope Produces First Images
I feel like your criticisms might make sense if it was a random nytimes article but this is in the career advices column of the academic journal nature.
Why you see online ads for stuff you buy in the real world
The more frustrating version: you work hard and self-fund for a couple of years to make something that works. Then along comes clueless bunch 1.0 who are bankrolled by clueless VC who then undercut you on price, over promise and do not deliver leaving you with potentially years without sales because you can't match the hype train. I've seen this a couple of times and it isn't pretty. By the time they finally go belly up you may have preceded them down that path.
I have heard wildly differing estimates of the potential bandwidth Starlink will offer to individual consumers, at what prices, and how efficient/effective their mesh networking and ground station strategy will be. I'm taking a wait and see attitude, but it would be very cool if they actually came up with a telecom killer.
No, this is not correct. I sell an App that lets you play music that is stored locally on your phone. Before you rush to get it though: it is restricted to Operas. It also lets you play cloud music in your library if you subscribe to iTunes Match.
I use both PyCharm and JupyterLab on daily basis, typically dealing with multi-gb datasets.

If I'm writing a library or adding new features to one, or writing tests I'll use PyCharm sure thing, otherwise the notebook is a quicker way to sketch prototypes and always have a kernel with preloaded datasets and pre-imported stuff ready at hand. I don't want to wait 10 minutes to just load the data every time I want to check if my new function works well on it at big scale. That's one of the most important bits.

PyCharm is a clear winner at actually writing code that you won't throw in the bin 10 min later, and once you know what to write.

Debugging? Don't remember ever using PyCharm despite the fact it exists... either pudb or python-devtools or something else. I'd just write tests and things start working in the process. And btw you have pdb debugger (some weak version of it) in jupyter if you really need it. Docstrings? Press tab twice in the notebook. Or keep PyCharm open on the side so you can cmd-b. Profiling? Never a pycharm builtin, maybe something like flamegraph but an external tool anyway.
At least the app used to have a personality and an unique design language.

Now it’s the same flat and empty garbage as every other one of their apps.

Btw if you’re looking for a non-shit podcasts app I highly recommend Overcast.
Really depends on what you’re making.

Personally, I find RN much more productive than native iOS, for the areas where it is applicable. The hot reload is quite magical.

Also, you can push JS updates without needing to update the app in the store, which is a huge plus.
It'll be the digital (and any physical) reproductions that will be subject to copyright, not the maps themselves.
Not going to name them since I don't have verified firsthand knowledge. It's a large regional chain based in the midwestern US.
I have suspicions the new app is a web app just like parts of iTunes are web apps.
Yes, many large companies seek technological solutions to political problems. I've worked for dysfunctional organizations; they want technology to provide the decisions bottom-up because, for whatever reason, nobody wants to make any hard calls. These projects fail because you simply can't have success that way.

If this is a political and organizational problem, then this choice of technology is entirely not about the pros and cons that have probably been debated to death in this topic. I agree. I think you've added some really good insight in this conversation. But I think that solution is dumb.

It's especially dumb for a software company because software is their core competency. That's where they should be spending their resources on. They should be minimizing costs but not at the cost of their core product.
One system I work with exposes a CLI. The whole system is written in C, and the CLI is basically just a frontend for a bunch of commands that take in [int argc, char argv]. It is, to misquote Greenspun's tenth, an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of a proper REPL.

My secret wish is to replace it with an embedded TCL REPL. TCL isn't perfect, but it's pretty easy to interface with C, and it fits on small targets. My main problem (aside from lack of time) is that I'd actually need a tiny version that would fit within dozens of kilobytes of code. Closest I've found is Jim [1], which is 100-200kB (depending on features). Compare that with Lua, which fits under 100kB (though excluding its standard library).

[1] http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html
Gee, just tonight I finished The Capture (2019), which features..London police deploying live facial recognition to find wanted faces in crowds, and numberplates on roads, and the secret service (and a protest group) faking CCTV footage with deep fakes to put anyone they want in prison. I guess I thought the London facial recognition was already a thing. Very good series, by the way.
> SML is kind of like the lisp of FP

You don't consider lisp the lisp of FP?
That's how things are, not how they should be.
Goldman Sachs Investor Day Presentation
It just got worse - many states around the country introduced laws that can strip you of your rights with no due process, incarcerate you and you have no recourse. This recently just got used on a police officer in Colorado.

Its pretty terrible.
Bay of Fundy
tl;dr Tcl has an "uplevel" command that lets you execute code in the variable scope level of the procedure that called it. The classic example is a "do" loop, which Tcl doesn't include out of the box:

proc do {body condition} {
while 1 {
uplevel $body
if {![uplevel [list expr $condition]]} break
}
}

set i 10
do {puts $i ; incr i -1} {$i > 0}

output:

10
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This makes me think back to the times that Notch used to record/stream himself when he would program. I used to love watching those because it helped me become a better programmer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3811332
For whatever it's worth, as one of many conquerors of a land once inhabited by Native Americans, it's increasingly becoming public knowledge that we weren't exactly kind to them; just because we won doesn't mean their side of the story remained entirely/indefinitely eclipsed.
apple music has a horrific UI that makes zero sense.
Tk has been fine on linux since 2006ish with ttk. The default look is still motif, but it's a single line change to get a more modern look.

[edit]

Tile (which was incorporated in tcl 8.5) is actually older, as an extension, so with a bit of work you could get better looking apps even earlier.
Explode prices for this first 5 years, maybe it would. But then, the improvement would have to be enough over the most recent generic that the consumer would actually pay the increase.

As to not investing in cures, I'm not saying they don't at all, but they allocate resources towards the best return on capital. And I'd ask you to apply your own reasoning, that "Its much easier to recover 1B investment over 20 years than 5" to which gives an easier return on capital.

Of course, implicit in that is that it's less risky to fund research in incremental improvements than on outright cures- but I'm open to being taught differently on that.

EDIT: fixing jumbled words
These are some great suggestions. I'm starting to think about how I could use custom domains etc. I need to figure out the next steps for the app and what people would be prepared to pay for such a tool. Ideally, I'd like to keep everything simple when it comes to pricing and not have functionality based tiers. Not sure yet.
It depends on what you are looking for. Tensors as in physics (typically with each dimension being related to space(time)), tensors for quantum information & computing, tensors for deep learning?

I've found it illuminating to see tensor diagrams.

- https://medium.com/@pmigdal/in-the-topic-of-diagrams-i-did-w...

- https://www.math3ma.com/blog/matrices-as-tensor-network-diag...

Also, right now, we are developing a matrix visualization in https://github.com/Quantum-Game. However, it is pretty much work in progress; for a slightly more mature one, go to Quantum Game 2 website and in the element encyclopedia there is one.

I am always up for talking about tensors, so feel invited to drop me an email.
> Before his own indictment, Sarao himself lost millions in assets to fraudsters who found him uniquely gullible and easy to cheat, his lawyer said.

The irony is that he had millions in assets in the first place. Lol.
I used to use Google Play Music but switched to Apple Music after they announced they were shutting it down. I tried switching to Youtube Music, but the UI was easily the worst out of any music service I've tried. Last time I used it the first few rows on your home screen were suggested music video's, which is not at all what I come to for a music app for. Maybe most people use music app's differently then me, but I think someone made a mistake by prioritizing Youtube Music over Google Play Music.
Calibre takes care of that.
Seeing as how their website is run from a low-power device, maybe your IP (range?) was submitting too many requests and they decided to ban it.
One time I was having some imaging done and they had me sign forms on a tablet. One of the signatures was stating that I had received a physical copy of the forms I was signing. I asked for a physical copy before signing. They said they couldn't do that until I signed. I refused to sign.

Thirty minutes later they figured out how to print it (it took the whole office to work out how). Then I signed.
Highest-Resolution Photo of the Sun
I tried to learn it a little but I did not manage to understand how it works, I don't really like the whole WYSIWYG thing, it forces the developer to surrender control, and you waste a big amount of time teaching yourself how it works internally, time that could be spent being productive with a simple renderer.

It also seems to support c++ as "gdnative", although it requires another compiler to link against godot's binaries. It seems awkward because you still need to use the godot editor, and there is still a lot of interfacing to write.

It seems like a good alternative to unity, but in the end, all I want is an engine, not a "framework" or some awkward scene editor with some kind of Node hierarchy/interface.

I could say the same thing about UE4. I hear everywhere that's it's the place to go, that "everybody uses it and it's the norm in the industry if you want to make a game from scratch", but the reality is that those frameworks are too big and too feature rich. It sounds like they want to attract young developers to lock them into those awkward frameworks, because they advertise it as being full-featured engines, but small developers might not really need to focus on bleeding edge rendering, so it doesn't make sense.

I know there are engines like Ogre3D, but I would rather spend time learning an actual universal graphics API that works on all hardware, which has more value on a resume, and I can just use what I need. All other things like audio, animation, inputs, physics, etc are available as C++ libraries.

Those frameworks are saying "see? you can make your own game with those tools!", but when you actually learn how a computer works, and know how to write code, you realize you want to avoid those frameworks because they conceal too much from the programmer, and usually you don't want a developer to not understand what the framework is doing. I guess this is why people have a problem with certain object-oriented practices and abstraction.

EDIT:

Here is a nice video which benchmarks unity against a simple, very similar from-scratch equivalent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInaI3pU19Y
Agreed. I do admit it's the "easy" thing to do. I usually resent people who think everything is a conspiracy, but tbh, apart from encrypting everything you upload everywhere, I don't know how to "be safe".

Not that I'm concerned that government agencies would want to "hunt me down" or anything. I'm more concerned of what hackers will be able to do when they steal that info from the government (i.e., very ellaborate and credible scams to close family impersonating me).
Medicare isn't one gigantic entity though.

You get a Medicare provider, with an insurance company that you work with.

Yeah there's lots of layers of bureaucracy.
I was only able to get ~60mbps with OpenVPN through a hard wired Raspberry Pi 3 connected to Google Fiber, due to limitations of its bus.

The 4 is supposed to be actual gigabit, but I have not yet tried it out to confirm.
China, China, China, China, China, OH UK too?
Drug patents only last about 10 years. So fixing the evergreening system at the patent office solves your concern about perfect and imperfect substitutes.

Take a look some time at the large list of drugs Walmart pharmacy offers for just a few bucks a month. Our model should be to get more drugs in such a state that a Walmart can offer them for such a low price.
> Sometimes, albums are split into two parts. Sometimes, songs are randomly missing.

Add “sometimes songs are replaced by versions from compilation albums” which is also incredibly frustrating if you like to curate a library. However, all of these bugs have been present since iTunes Match launched, long before Apple Music was a thing. I have no faith they’ll ever get fixed.

My theory is that rights for songs temporarily lapse or transfer, causing the album to be removed and re-added on the back end, and the system to match things back up is wonky.

Syncing music to the Apple Watch is also incredibly unreliable. I had to deduce that songs that aren’t downloaded to the phone will never transfer to the Watch (even though the Watch has its own WiFi connection) because the transfer screen just says “syncing...” forever.

Apple Music is horrible, but the lack of a real library in Spotify (as mentioned in the article) is just about keeping me subscribed.
The number was merely an example. The alteration I proposed would be equivalently applicable to "5 years post FDA approval."
I would add that incidental collection is still a problem -- and should the police be able to know the identity of every person in the area of a suspect? What about journalists? John Doe warrants?

If should really be specifically enumerated with no slack. As in, surveillance footage keep for maximum of 1 hour (on line detection only, not historical movement search); only warranted faces will be produced in report, others people blurred.

Also, having unopposed, indefinite warrant applications is bound to be troublesome. Who is checking the validity of police statements? No one. If the police want the surveillance warrant to remain secret indefinitely there should be increasing levels of review. Likewise journalists, politicians, lawyers, medical data, etc.
A social norm is what other people expect from you. It arises from commonalities within the group, but has an additional component of expectation. Not every deviation from typical behavior violates a social norm.

I don't think it's a relevant concept here, because even if the rest of the patients don't read the HIPAA documents, they also don't care whether you read them. The staff don't care either, even if they have to do a little extra work so you can.

Shouting loudly in the waiting room would be a good example of violating a social norm--people generally expect each other to speak normally/quietly in a medical office.
> 1. Just make a web page

This is 100% reasonable for a lot of apps. I for instance uses the web version of Gmail on my phone without any issue, and Gmail is a complicated app.

Trade-off: not easily discoverable in the store of the platform, harder to test because of browser differences, might not be as fast as a native app from a UI perspective.

> 2. If your app involves persistant storage and functions that are not supported by web browsers, or you need optimal performance like games.

Great performances, easy to stick to UI styles for each platform, access to good quality tools for testing, no, leaky abstraction.

trade-off: unless you are using a language supported by all platforms (C/C++), duplicate codebase for business logic.

> 3. Flutter

I don't know flutter because I don't know Dart.

> 4. Some ordering of remaining cross-platform tools depending on requirements. (React Native, Vue Native, Xamarin, Ionic, Titanium, PhoneGap, Kony...)

Phonegap and Ionic apps are essentially webapps.

trade-off: for React Native likes: leaky abstractions which leads to issues when not knowing the underlying platform, the need to write "plugins" in the native language…
WASM can access the DOM. Check out this:

https://github.com/gopherjs/vecty

Like React but in Go. Not quite mature yet but getting there.
Yeah, but like I said, it doesn't cost much to keep a Google account around that you aren't using.

It costs a lot to maintain yourself in the Apple ecosystem.
Because it's a lot less work to spend $10 a month than to manually re-categorize tens of thousands of mp3s?

I'm on a spotify family plan, so it's $15/mo. I was thinking the other day, 1992 me would have been absolutely blown away that, for $6.30something a month, I can listen to virtually anything I want. Yes, I'm "renting" it, but I'll take that over being able to only buy 3 CDs a year.
Python ' =' Is Not 'Is Not': Comparing Objects in Python
> so difficult to switch. So many accounts and services have my Gmail registered, I don't think I could collect them all.

Register a domain (e.g. something23423.de for 15USD/year) and use that as your primary email address (e.g., name@something23423.de), then connect it to any provider you wish underneath via editing the MX records at the registrar. Many email providers support this and have instructions [1,2,3].

You can have Gmail then forward all emails to your new address, and then each email that arrives from Gmail, you know needs updating to the new address.

You do not need to change your email address when switching providers.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html

[2] https://kb.mailbox.org/display/BMBOKBEN/Using+e-mail+address...

[3] https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/set-up-a-custo...
> Evergreening has absolutely nothing to do with the FDA and everything to do with the USPTO and the specific chemical makeup of insulin, which has unique characteristics that make it very easy to engage in effective "evergreening"

I’m very curious what you think these are.
I think there's a balancing act between making it memorable enough and simple enough. Great suggestion though, noted! Hacker News is incredible. A spectacular hive mind for mulling potential ideas over.
Fantastical is great, I've been using it for ~3 years now. Glad to see they added the sign in with apple option and consolidated their app development.
Bon Appetit is a New York city based food magazine that also has pretty entertaining YouTube content.

The graph is extremely shocking and not at all what I would have expected.

https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=bon_appetit
Corporations are groups of people.
So even though they develop apps that have millions of downloads or that businesses rely on for their in-store point of sales, you don't consider Shopify qualified to speak on mobile development?
This will either increase the price of insurance or cause people to take monthly trips to neighboring states.

Price ceilings don't work, I don't quite understand how people are elected when they don't understand high school level government/economics.