skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then grabbed when they travel to a country where the USA or affiliated can extradite.

And some countries, Israel for example, have actually sent assets to other countries to flat out kidnap and smuggle them out. The (probably) most high profile example of this being the abduction, confinement, and smuggling of Adolf Eichmann by Shin Bet and Mossad personnel. There are films about this, one being Operation Finale.

Other countries have done this to varying levels, including the United States. Some can be found starting at this point in the extraordinary rendition wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Histor...
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You can achieve a similar caching improvement by either:

1. Using poetry which keeps a version lock file so all changes are reflected/cached, or

2. Doing a similar thing yourself by committing `pip freeze` and building images from that instead of requirements.txt.
You can put Linux on most Surfaces, and many of the cheaper Windows tablets. With pmOS, you may soon be able to put a desktop Linux OS on many cheap Android devices. The UX work for these use cases has been done - GNOME is now very much a mobile-ready and touch-ready environment, supporting real professional work. Plasma Mobile is not too far behind.
are you the one exception that makes us all suffer from notification induced FOMO ? :)
I've only had to dive into the native code a handful of times, but I do basically make an ugly CRUD app. Most apps are ugly CRUD apps though. I haven't used the Shopify app, but it probably falls into that category too.

> What do you do when there are native build errors?

I periodically do suffer through xcode upgrades, bad RN module linking, gradle issues, etc, but it's a couple of days of work every few months to say current. The JS devs don't really have to think about this stuff for the daily work. I think it's totally possible to get away with one person that knows how to do the hard technical stuff when it crops up.

That said, I don't build the most technically sophisticated product. The vast majority of changes we make are for design/marketing or for features that build on what we already have. I think that's true of most apps.

It's not for everything, and I'm glad Firefox (for example) does do native Android development. I couldn't imagine that working with React Native. But look at the apps on any random phone and the ones that couldn't be made in RN is pretty small.
Stephen Sinofsky, who led the Windows team at the time the iPhone and iPad were introduced, had a very different take on the iPad that he recently shared.

>In first year 2010–2011 Apple sold 20 million iPads. That same year would turn out to be an historical high water mark for PCs (365M, ~180M laptops). Analysts had forecasted more than 500M PCs were now rapidly increasing tablet forecasts to 100’s of million and dropping PC.

The iPad and iPhone were soundly existential threats to Microsoft’s core platform business.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/305359-happy-10th-ipad...
This. And if you compare it with the very best say, iOS has to offer in touch interaction it's just different worlds. Look at the multitasking and swipe interaction on an iPad pro at 120Hz. You just can't even think of that world.

I have a funny feeling that Apple's next big developer move on the iPhone is to enable those types of smooth, cancelable interactions out of the box in Xcode via new SwiftUI components just for it. When they make it easy and clear, people will use it and then the gap will widen.
I don't know flutter because I don't know Dart.

I don't fully understand this opinion. Learning "new" things can be difficult, but there's little "new" in dart compared to other languages. Maybe you can elaborate?

Installing required tools, setting up a project, including debugger, is just damn easy (VSCode extension FTW). Also, any prior experience in mobile using Kotlin, Swift, or JS, translates well to Flutter and therefore Dart. Bonus knowledge bridge for people with MVVM experience due to first class async Streams API and third party RxDart (following ReactiveX spec).
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Enterprise users are most often using enterprise servers with fiber HBAs and SAN.
Not that I’m familiar with the subject, but this article[1] suggests that Roli’s Seaboard would need MIDI >1.0 to transmit per-note pressure and pitch bend info, and the Seaboard is definitely keyboard based.

[1] https://reverb.com/news/roland-unveils-first-midi-2-ready-ke...
> Not easy. In fact, damn near impossible.

Simply not true. FATCA is a thing, and the USG is comfortable hammering foreign banks for info. It's a lot harder with China, but they absolutely comply: https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-agrees-fatca-compl...

This is also why that Chinese money goes to Canada (esp. Vancouver) -- the Canadian government doesn't dig as hard.
You are right, and I altered a comment below to reflect this. I was trying to make a more general point and phrased it poorly.

The general point is: the reason drug costs are high because of two things working together:

1) Pharma continually refreshes patents by making modest, but real, improvements to things that are generically available.

2) Patients will not accept any level of increased health risk, no matter how much the cost increases in exchange for decreased risk.

The result of these two things is that even though we have generics available for almost every major disease, they are rarely used, and we are always using the patented versions which are orders of magnitude more expensive. And then we have people wondering why health care is so expensive.

It would be absolutely bizarre if it were any other area of the economy. Imagine if every person insisted on owning a sports car because they go 20% faster. But because we (the public in general) continue on insisting that no price can be placed on marginal increases human life or health -- despite the huge logical contradictions that result from this -- we cannot have rational discussions about how to actually keep health care affordable.
interesting - thanks! Would you let me know what browser/OS as well, just so I can have a look?
There are huge swathes of rural Australia with non existent or very spotty mobile reception same with broadband band other than sat that is geo stationery which are frankly garbage.
> But why are we saying that this isn’t ‘real’ work?

Because by 'real work' we mean creating stuff, not consuming stuff.

Using a tablet as a fancy embedded device with pre-loaded industrial apps isn't creating stuff.
Native iOS developer here (10 years). Knowing how to leverage UIKit and CoreAnimation properly can give a very smooth UX. SwiftUI has significantly upped the ante on iOS13 and future versions; it's reactive without the middleware layers, and it lets you get your app done (with live view previews) and not have to drag in a pant-load of external frameworks.
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>And with insulin specifically, there is another problem: diabetics won't take the generic insulin that has been off-patent for years now.

A huge reason I found is your doctor won't ever recommend it. Most diabetics may very well just be blissfully ignorant (I was until recently) that it's even an option, save for Wal-Mart very heavily marketing their "Reli-On" branded insulin produced by Novo Nordisk.

I wonder if PCPs (not endocrinologists) are even aware it exists. I've had many PCPs in the past few years, from one of the best health care centers in the US, never recommend it as an option, and seemed to forget it even existed. I guess when you recommend Eli Lilly's biologic-developed analogs for decades and decades, you damn near forget about the old school insulin out of habit.

I recently switched, WITHOUT a doctor's approval (none would recommend it). I have to be more careful, but my costs of using purely generic everything plummeted to below 1997-era insured levels Increasingly insurance co-pays have gotten far more expensive for the biologics, and increasingly plans don't even cover the biologic-process analogs anymore (where my costs would be $560/mo for just the insulins that aren't covered by my current plan, or $130/mo if I paid another +$230/mo for a better single-person insurance plan -- only a $170/mo net reduction).

My uninsured "no prescription required" OTC costs for all my diabetic supplies (two insulins, sharps container, lancets, test strips) are $69/mo, and $18/mo (prescription required) for generic syringes now. It required taking everything in my own hands and telling every PCP I had to #$%& their hat.
Scheme is the lisp of FP. My understanding is that idiomatic lisp is quite imperative.
Great quote here: "The margins rarely get better, but the sunk costs get worse."

The problem is that this "business fundamentals" thinking gets overshadowed by VC funding culture among startups, which aim for rapid growth, margins be damned. You end up with businesses that are really not sustainable at all climbing over each other in hopes of getting funding instead of looking for markets and business models where they can operate like normal, profitable businesses.
I wanted to filter some subreddits from r/all and found out a solution using Filter List for Ublock Origin, it works like a charm.

You can check it out in my repo [1] and gist itself [2].

[1] https://github.com/Offpics/FilterGames

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Offpics/FilterGames/master...
Not easily. Sometimes just doing manual-esque queries using selenium(!).

There are rate limits on a lot of tools/APIs as well, so if I can narrow my search boundaries quickly with some hand tweaking, it helps a lot.
You learn to derive some satisfaction from feeding it inaccurate labels.
A nicer way to put it would be they're managing and directing research projects.

Also makes it easier to poach info from multiple research streams...
In trading there is a queue for buys and sells, marked at quantity and price. This describes an attribute for that market called liquidity.

I have, at a given timestamp, a queue of orders that must be fulfilled in accordance with a strict set of rules.

By playing the rules and advertising bids with a lowlatency connection fast enough to impact the bid price, whilst canceling and not fulfilling that order, say 250us later. You can make a position to take advantage of that artificial price move that you caused.

This is called spoofing.
What do you mean misses? The author mentions that exact combination in paragraph 4.
But nothing seemingly available for 2.0?
They only had two small websites for me. Great success!

I'll share my strategy.

On desktop:

Banking: Vivaldi Browser w/ privacy badger and ublock origin

Email and Commerce: Chrome Browser w/ privacy badger and ublock origin

News and other BS (like Hacker News): Firefox browser, always in private mode w/ privacy badger and ublock origin

LinkedIn (in the rare case I use it): Internet Explorer

Mobile:

Facebook: Opera

Commerce: Chrome

Reddit: Naked Browser

News and other BS: DuckDuckGo Browser

EDIT: I also do not use my credit card on my phone unless in extreme rare events. Absolutely no banking on my phone. No fancy apps (I use the web version where possible) beyond the generic stuff like email and maps. I use Signal for texting.
Do you mind sharing what kind of projects? Just in case you have a list laying around.
If rights were violated then this would all be illegal. Clearly it isn't. In the US, there is no constitutional right to privacy, and any legal precedents are mostly about government surveillance.

There's new data privacy regulations at the state and federal level going into effect which is why FB made these changes, but they don't explicitly prevent this kind of data sharing from an outside company using first-party trackers to send data to Facebook's marketing platform.
> The life of hunter-gatherers was complex, but it didn't change as much as life does now.

I agree with this sentiment but draw a different conclusion. Stepping outside of your comfort zone as a hunter gatherer was a lot more dangerous -- new terrains, new plants that could be poisonous, new animals that could kill you. Tipping wrong or sticking your chopsticks in your rice bowl is unlikely to lead to death or dismemberment, but it's possible our nervous system is trained to send signals that it might.
We have an organ in our office warehouse with 8 ranks of real pipes, and several dozen virtual ranks and it is MIDI controllable. MIDI does a poor job of mapping organs to MIDI messages. There's no good way to control stops (i.e., what stops are selected on which manual/pedal) and couplers without "overloading" a lot of the meta commands. And there's no way of defining which stops (which can be on any manual) are under expression. There's no way to represent a "tutti" stop, etc.

And even for conventional "piano" instruments, which you'd think MIDI would work well for, it's lacking. It doesn't have pedal velocity or position (often the damper pedal is held at some in between position) and it doesn't have key position. Advanced "player" systems, like the Bosendorfer SE or Disklavier Pro overload other MIDI messages to account for this. Anyone who plays a real piano will see MIDI's problems.

At the very least, every keyboard instrument like Organs and Pianos should be 100% controllable from MIDI.
I'm a big kayak fan for their flexible search, and am sad hipmunk is shutting down this month :/ Grabaseat.co.nz is brilliant for NZ specific deals.
MIDI 1.0 supports polyphonic pressure and aftertouch messages - just not a lot of keyboard manufacturers supported it, since its pretty processor intensive - not to send, but to sense...
Yes.

Being a VPN and a DNS server are both extremely light weight tasks that use (mostly) orthogonal resources (VPN = IO, DNS ~ fairly small IO and CPU).
I'm speaking as a matter of strategy. A carbon tax might work, and be seen as a victory, tactically, but will be the wrong move, strategically.

It prevents addition of co2, but does not subtract. Focus on encouraging and incentives for subtraction, not preventing addition. If you want people to get on board. (I get that reducing emissions means less to sequester. That's thinking short term, and beyond minor cutbacks, a political loser. A successful solution won't require that to be effective.)

I'm saying anything punitive and negatively coercive is the wrong approach. It might technically work, but won't ever be successful politically. Unless we go full authoritarian regime. As soon as a large enough portion of the population is hit with having to change lifestyle, it's done for. Focus on solutions that don't require that.
> It's a development model that worked reasonably well for the X protocol.

The development of early X11 didn't work very well at all. Even Keith Packard himself says so [1].

1.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ
To think someone would take all this time to set up ransomware and successfully get 96 BTC out of a ransom only to be using a Bitfinex account.
I'm not talking about backing stuff up. I'm talking about not keeping data of business value on single points of failure in the first place. Those hardware failures weren't resolved in 3-4 hours by restoring backups, they were resolved by fetching and setting up things from systems of record. Version control. Artifactory. Runbooks in a Wiki.

If this data is useful, why am I bogarting it? I should be sharing it, as soon as possible. If some ears are too sensitive to see rough drafts, we can use obscurity or permissions to control premature messaging.

It's the same argument as Bus Numbers, or for DVCS, or feature branches. I don't want days or weeks worth of work hanging out on some engineer's system, which can get wet or take a tumble down the stairs on the way to a meeting or stay home for a week while down with the flu.

Backups are for people with a bus number of 1 (ie, mismanaged teams or personal projects).
Agreed, looking into other eco-systems is always a learning experience.
Makes sense to me. If evergreening is fixed, then theoretically in ten years time every drug on the market right now could be available as a generic at generic prices.
>Only if it serves as baseload.

...which is the whole point of nuclear. It's constant power.

The means to manufacture, service and maintain battery capacity sufficient to meet our civilization's energy needs from renewables simply does not exist in any technology, period.
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Isn't the vast majority of their POS systems iOS based? The base iPad is rather fast. Why not just target your market directly and max out performance? Meanwhile the vast majority of their Android POS systems use what, lower end Kindles and such? They know they can't get perfect experience there but they don't want a bad one where it counts. They know their market.
>he way to solve that is by having more curated lists, rankings, and recommendations.

Yeah, sure, then we only need a few meta-rankings to know which of those we actually need to pay attention to.
No, I got that, as I stated. The issue is that half your trades are losing money, so where is that money coming from.
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Tlsdate: Appelbaum's Secure NTP Alternative in Chromium OS
Toygers are real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyger
>We receive more details and activity than what appears here. For technical and accuracy reasons, this list doesn't show all the activity that we've received. Activity that is not shown includes information we've received when you're not logged into Facebook, or when we can't confirm that you've previously used Facebook on that device.

So, basically all the information they have on me? I don't log in to facebook all that often. By not helping them survive me, they'll coyly pretend like they have less surveillance data tied to my account in their database than they do. I doubt they're going to purge those surveillance records "technical and accuracy" reasons.
Forgive me a bit, since I haven't been on Newgrounds since before the iPhone came out, but did Newgrounds ever charge to host on their site? Did they allow you to monetize your games?
Lack of price transparency is an issue. There's waaay too many misdirections and misaligned incentives between the price a consumer pays for a drug and the manufacturer's pricing.

But again, market-based solutions are just not appropriate for essential health care. You would pay ANYTHING to not die - there's no price elasticity of demand.

Every other developed country has figured out that this is simply immoral.
Defined benefit pension plans are a great idea, because you get something out of them, regardless of how long you live.

Even if investing in one makes you take a haircut, compared to a fixed contribution fund, they are still a great idea. For two key reasons.

1. You need money to live.

2. You don't know how long you'll live for.

If I retire with a fixed contribution retirement fund, that is planned to last me 20 years, and I die after year 5, it's of zero consolation to me that ~75% of my fund is still around.

... But if I live to year 21, I've now got zero income. A big fat zero. And I'm also not in a great physical state to work for more money to support myself.

Likewise, if there's a market crash, and a slow recovery two years into my retirement, that 20 years of runway may turn into 12.

Banking on a fixed contribution fund is like playing a game where we flip a coin. Tails, you triple your money. Heads, you lose everything you own.

This game has a positive expected net value for you, but you'd be an absolute idiot to play it at the age of 75.

With a defined benefit pension plan, you're playing a different game. Heads, you add 40% to your money. Tails, you lose half of what you own.

This game has a negative expected net value for you, but if you have to pick between one or the other, it's a much better game to be playing at the age of 75.

The optimal strategy, of course, is to diversify your investments, and have both a defined contribution retirement fund, AND a defined benefit pension plan, with the understanding that one of them may underperform for your situation. (The first if you live too long, the second, if the market in general has a rough time.)

Currently, something like 4-6% of my retirement 'savings' (In the form of social security contributions) are tied in defined benefit pension plans. I'd feel much more comfortable if I could shift my distribution of savings, so that they would be closer to 30% of them. And yes, I expect to take a haircut on them.
The Failure of the iPad

200 million units sold. $10 billion in quarterly revenue.

Man, I wish I could have that kind of "failure."
Thank you. It's a big article, it starts on the page 90 and ends on 147(!) there. Also, the article is from 1981 and Tesler already works for Apple, as seen on the first page.

To compare with the article date, Apple Lisa was released January 19, 1983 (and, by the way, Macintosh January 1984, iPhone January 2007, iPad January 2010 -- Jobs certainly had a system).
You're right, I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. I wish it had ranked high enough for a comparison though, seems to solve some of the issues raised (though perhaps causes others).
> Starlink will suffer from congestion just like a cellular network.

It's even worse than a cellular network. With a cell network, one can just build more towers in a particular city.

With LEO satellites, the only way to get more coverage over a particular city is to get more coverage over the entire world.
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Thanks. I've had pretty good luck so far. I would not want to be managing 3x the team size with 3 different repos to build my crappy CRUD app.

Keep in mind that I'm not trying to do anything revolutionary here. I just work for a company that needs apps on the major platforms with the least effort and expense possible.
It's still not safe. For example there was a conflict one day between awscli, urllib and some system tool (apt?) which led to a broken (apt fails) system if you just "pip install awscli" globally. Even in docker image, you still need virtualenv to be safe (or use only global distro packages).
Because the target audience - developers, system administrator and similarly technically skilled users - by default usually expect software to be free as in beer.

For example, I've talked to quite a few software developers who will gladly admit that IntelliJ IDEA (which comes at merely €499) makes them much more productive but who at the same time keep using Eclipse because it's free.

Jenkins is another example. Maintaining a Jenkins install can be a real headache. Its user experience is, let's say, less than stellar. Still, it's widely used because it's "free".

It's both ironic and unfortunate that often those people who make a living creating software seem to be the most averse to paying for software.
I enjoy Justin's fresh approach to a lot of these business topics. When you hear "margin" you immediately think of profit, never your personal margin. Funny because you need personal margin to actually sit back, let your mind calm down and allow new business ideas / strategy etc. to float up.
What you’re describing is no longer iMessage and I would still say it works pretty well given the archaic technology involved. I don’t think contacting people on Signal via WhatsApp works too well either.

How does Google’s offering handle this situation better?