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This is a reasonable perspective on their actions, but it then it still belies a huge glaring problem in Google fundamentally lacking the ability to understand which projects have the potential for scale at the desired level. It seems a standard part of a typical SV pitch deck to address the potential market and growth opportunities. Sure, they're wildly optimistic most times, but VC knows this and can price it in. But it almost seems like Google doesn't have the internal filtering mechanism necessary to perform this same function.
AlienBlue is the official app, just frozen in time in 2014.
Is this a portent of truth's final days? Is absurdism the only final, knowable truth, in a world where only fact carries meaning, as humanity has been deconstructed and rendered noumenal? The voices of a million potential future artists just cried out in agony and were silenced forever. The Tesla CEO has it right. AI is the end of humanity -- but (probably) not in a SkyNet sort of way, but one that is much worse because it renders the term "hope" itself meaningless.
I'm puzzled at how your comment is not flagged with the words you chose.

What effects reduced DHT may or may not have on the body doesn't actually invalidate the title does it?

To quote you:

> In conclusion, soy protein, regardless of isoflavone content, decreased DHT and DHT/testosterone

And then the conclusion about effects being unclear:

> The relevance of the magnitude of these effects ... requires further investigation

So as long as a person is on the right side of the spectrum they can insult and namecall anyone they like? That can't possibly be news.ycombinator.com's policy or justifiable in any way.

There's another person talking about meta analysis invalidating this, but instead of posting the meta analysis there's just two ad hominem attacks. Seriously?
I've done short stints in Spanish and Japanese classes, and have traveled abroad for short periods (Spain, Russia, China). I understand short phrases and can do very basic stuff: ask for directions, say please/thank you, get mugged, etc.

I have some family that have done intense language study, and lived abroad for years (mostly Russia, but other places too), one thing I've always been curious about is wordplay.

Do non-English languages and cultures have the same amount (or potential for) wordplay like English does? My family who've lived abroad have said 'not as much as English', but... they only lived in non-English places for a few years, so their experience - while valuable - may not be conclusive.
If gym is a child's introduction to the idea of normal, daily exercise all hope has already been lost.

A school or education system that was serious about exercise or fitness would look nothing like the American one. There would not be elementary schools without recess, exercise would be a part of every student's schedule every day and not taking part would not be an option.

As is gym class has to deal with absurdly huge variations in interest and ability. Some children exercise every day, or play multiple sports because they're either enthusiastic or genuinely athletic. Having them in the same class as bookworms and couch potatoes serves no one well.

Gym is awful and cannot be made not awful without a thoroughgoing reform, not of gym class, but of the entire education system. It would be better off burned to the ground. That way it would at least not teach many people that they hate exercise, it would just leave them indifferent.
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That is what we in the US call "community policing" which is how it used to be. The cultural image of a policeman used to be the overweight donut eating totally approachable "dad" type figure, look at pretty much any hollywood movie or show from the 70s or 80s.

And since 9/11 the police have gotten a lot more militaristic. But police departments all over the country are TRYING to return to the idea of community policing. It'll take a while before we get there but that's absolutely where things need to be.
That's correct, each start is considered to be an engine cycle, same as doing a trip.

The parts in jet engines almost all have cycle limits, so it's a big deal.

You'll notice that skydive operators reposition their Cessna Caravans using a tug - they never turn on and taxi around without a load.
Piracy is rampant to all popular software; I’m not sure how the conclusion that Asian markets have a higher pircy rate than the western market was reached. I’m pretty sure that MS Office is pirated in the US at least as much as Korea.
It is definitely a good idea. The environment changes and we need to do something about it.
Recently I wanted to make a few simple apps that would make api requests and control a few things around my house set up with raspberry pis.

A friend recommended me the drag and drop app builder Thunkable[1] and I was blown away by just how easy it was to make something. In a couple of hours I had all the apps I needed. No complicated build process, just download the apk from the site. Some people might turn their noses up at it because it uses scratch for writing the code but I feel this is what people's first experience of coding should be like. Write a simple recipe, get a simple program that they can use straightaway. These that must be an app or a web app to have any relevance to people.

[1] https://thunkable.com/
Yes, it convinces me there needs to be a 3rd stage to the old axiom: 1) Ideas are easy but 2) execution is hard and (new) 3) Maintenance is boring and lacks prestige but you'll fail without it.
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That's a great metaphor, I make apps just for myself or a few friends sometimes and this is exactly how I feel about it.

For instance I made an app called "YourSquare" that's just like FourSquare but 100% private and local to my phone. No real point to it, I could make Google Maps do what it does, but it's a home cooked meal.
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We are well past the time lag for many of those sick outside China. Most who die from the virus do so about 10 days after symptoms appear.
Isn't "this didn't go the way we thought it would and we're not willing to fight for it" the reason why all their products die?
They've been moved to the cloud.
I don't speak Swedish but someone told me they have their own pun Olympics simply because of how easy the language is to mold into puns
That’s because you aren’t trying to find the probability of a digit given any SPECIFIC maximum, you are trying to sum the probability of the digit given that the maximum is in a certain range, over all ranges.

With large ranges, even if you exclude a power of 10 in the upper bound, it does not change the 11.11% chance of each digit being the first digit.*

That is JUST FALSE ok? For for pretty much any distribution you choose for the max, other than 100% chance it is a power of 10 and 0% chance other numbers, you’ll get that the digit 1 comes up way more than 2, which would come up more than 3, etc. How much more? This comes from the fact that there are just as many numbers 100-200 as there are 0-100. Ok? And that’s all 1s. Then you hit the 2s, and so on.

If the max happens to be anywhere in the range 100-1000 with equal probability, you get that result. Benford’s law. If the max is distributed as some sort of continuous distribution — and not that ridiculous distribution of ONLY ever being powers of 10 — then you likely get something similar.

What are you arguing about?? If you are saying it’s mysterious why the lower digits come up more than higher ones, well the mystery is over. If you want an EXACT fit to the numbers in the article then I think they come out whenever the max is uniformly distributed between 10^n and 10^(n+1). But they may also have a sort of “law of large numbers” thing where pretty much any continuous distribution of the max leads to this law. That part I can’t tell you. What I can tell you is OBVIOUSLY the lower digits will come out more frequently.
I realize that. My point was that in my opinion AI in this case does not add anything more "artistically" speaking.
I have big complaint on ios reddit apps and that is no nsfw filtering. Many times /r/all shows nsfw images containing nudity or gore, and there is no way to tell the app to filter the thumbnails! This is such a basic feature on any android reddit app. I read that it has to do with something about app store policies. But that just sounds dumb. Why would policies force the app to show adult content always?
HN snark is doing great recently. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300333
They deprecate the feature on Macs without T2 chips because that's where the video stream encoding is done: in hardware. The CPU encoding performance isn't good enough.

Meanwhile, you can buy a Luna Display for your older kit to do the same thing with roughly the same performance, because that also does encoding in hardware.

And adding a new feature to newer hardware doesn't obsolete your old hardware. If Apple release a 5G phone in September, your not-5G iPhone will still work.
Done both. Farming is harder.

Bloomberg has no clue whatsoever. Farming is not just gardening. That would be like saying programming is just typing. Wrong.
Off the top of my head, Apollo's recreations of the action sheet, search bar, and navigation controller have subtle bugs. The action sheet is missing vibrancy and does not respond correctly to touch in/out events, nor does it give any sort of indication of being scrollable (it also does the "oreo" thing if you switch between appearances). The search bar does not animate correctly when navigating between view controllers and while collapsing has incorrect rounding and shading. It also fails to take user input or respond to touches at all during animations. Your custom navigation controller does not animate titles correctly, and its swipe handling is frustratingly divergent from the system's: it accepts swipes starting almost a centimeter from the edge and is far too sensitive to accidental flicks. Plus, stylistically, it should be using large titles in certain places but does not.

These might seem like minor things, and they probably are for most people, but as an heavy iOS user I have a very good sense for how system components look and function, and it drives me up a wall when people reimplement them but break or fail to support some of their behaviors (specifically: if your custom component is supposed to look like a system control, it better act exactly like one!). As an iOS engineer I also know that these parts of UIKit are the somewhat problematic to deal with, but I appreciate apps that take the time to get it right and I would have hoped that an app that prides itself on looking at home on iOS would have put in the effort to care about this as I do. Hope this helps.
I honestly don't think you're posting in good faith.

Is it that difficult to understand that most people don't want to inhale smoke and find it really distasteful?

Honestly, inhaling flatulence is probably less dangerous than inhaling second-hand smoke, and I don't think anyone is going to blame someone for intensely disliking inhaling that.
Each application having 1% of the users doesn't mean it's 1% when you add them all together. And they're all different applications. Why would you expect these to be less likely to be performance critical than any other?

Care to give examples of “performance” critical Mac applications that people are using and are not likely to get ported relatively quickly?

Even for applications that aren't performance-critical, if the point is to save battery, emulation does the opposite.

What are these specialized applications? Audio, photo and video apps are historically the first to get ported. Adobe and Microsoft have historically taken a year or two.

Active Mac only developers like BareBones have have been the first to port their apps.

When they did it before, the new processors were a lot faster. There was a large benefit to offset the transition cost.

For reference 68K applications ran slower on the 6100/60 and 7100/66 than my 68030-40Mhz (accelerated) LCII. Out of the first generation PPC based Macs, only the 8100/80 was always faster than my 68030 Mac. My Mac was about half the speed of the high end 68040-40Mhz Quadras. In this case it’s the battery benefit.

And back in the 10.5 days, most apps were still 32 bit and using the Carbon APIs.

If the argument is that Mac users should want to buy the first ARM model that comes out instead of holding onto their existing MacBook, not so much. It would have to be a real upgrade from what they already have, not just something equivalent but worse because it has to emulate

And this is the same thing that happened the last two times. Users waited until the apps they cared about the most were ported. Especially for the PPC transition, it wasn’t until both the second generation high end 604s that PPC based Macs could run emulated programs faster. Heck the second generation lowend 603 based PPC Macs were slower emulating 68K Software than 601 based Macs.

I'm also not sure what you mean by performance critical. Maybe they're not doing 3D rendering where you care quite a lot about the difference between three hours and five, but when people upgrade their hardware they still want it to go from responding in 500ms to 300ms instead of the other way around. And in that sense basically everything is performance critical.

I can’t speak to the architecture of the PPC emulator for the x86 based Macs. But in the case of 68K programs that spent a lot of time calling OS routines, they would get a significant speed boost because they were calling native code - at the time emulated programs saw a significant speed boost by calling native QuickDraw routines.

The other advantage this time is that Apple is designing its own chips. It can make architectural decisions in the processor design to make emulation better.

Also, people are already using Electron apps, they couldn’t care too much about performance.

For a contemporary report of emulation speed of PPC Macs.

https://tidbits.com/1994/02/21/powerpc-reports-positive/

(reports were that PPC ran emulation at the speed of a low end 68040 Quadra without an FPU)
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A reorganization is possible but I really doubt the American government would allow Boeing to be truly imperiled. The US Military has thousands of Boeing aircraft, particularly all of the large tanker jets used for aerial refueling are made by or supported by Boeing (some were made by McDonnell Douglas, before Boeing bought them.) Some of America's military aircraft are even derived from the 737.
So you don't miss it, I just gave Christian some feedback in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22345278.
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Umbrella lockers in Japan are always free. They're just a more secure version of the convenience store trypophobia buckets.
No. Look at NHS stats in England

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/10/nhs-england-...

> Over 18,000 suspected cancer patients a month in England are now not getting to see a specialist or starting their treatment within prescribed timescales, NHS England’s latest performance data has revealed.
and I think that's the question, which companies did Australia do that with? I can't ocme up with any.
Why do any of that?
No, it seems their products die because there's more prestige in launching a product than maintaining one.
> The general view of police and government as your "friendly helper" as opposed to enemies.

The US has a much more negative and adversarial view of govt in general, but in polls a large majority has a much more favorable view of cops versus other govt agencies. Certainly it's a terrible generalization to say americans view cops as enemies.

One import factor here is where specifically you live. Police in the US are local systems which totally differ based on local laws and culture. In a place like Los Angeles County, with its high crime problems, cops are a lot more jaded and defensive. Meanwhile in the small beach cities in LA, the cops are very helpful and mellow.
I myself did procedural texture generation at one point. There are also commercial packages. This was long time ago so I am not sure in what state those commercial offerings are now. Still you'd be amazed what kinds of textures can be generated procedurally. Definitely not anything less the AI can come up with. At least from what I saw on that AI site.

"Site broke on me" - interesting I did not notice anything. Maybe because we might've used different browsers
Google has been working on WiFi projects for a long time. They have enough good PR outside HN, no need to trivialize when a company takes up a good project.
12 years ago the author of this post would have had a little website and now he has the ability to record and instantly share video with his family in a pretty delightful app :)
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An SSH server that knows who you are
Reddit is very much social media; I stay psuedo-anonymous there and interact with it much as I would with other platforms, apart from putting minimal effort to stay incognito.
Before learning a language it's essential to enumerate your goals and determine not just the level of fluency that you desire but what part of the language you wish to learn. A diplomat is going to need to learn a different vocabulary and register to someone who is e.g. a chef. A diplomat or businessperson is going to need to speak formally and correctly, whereas others might find it more useful to learn slang terms and the informal register.
I've made several attempts at play-throughs over the years. Each and every time, the game crashed shortly after getting to the space stage. I'd curse myself for not remembering to save, forget about the game for a year or two, and the process would repeat.
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Just another copy of my data. Yes, we can download too from each website; but that requires active action; this happens instantly and on its own.
That's interesting. Thinking about it a bit more, my current image comes from the fact that I never had "positive" interactions with police or government workers in the U.S. The only interactions I ever had with the police were when I did something wrong like speeding, or carrying alcohol outside.

In Japan, kids constantly have small positive interactions with the police, government workers, or other people in uniform. They may greet or bow to you on the street, help with traffic, announce trains, etc. That contributes to the image that they are approachable and want to help you. If you grow up with that, you'll have a very different image of the police.
I use Home Assistant to automate a lot of stuff around my house. The one I use at least daily is a trigger based on the light switch in my bedroom. A double click down triggers an automation that turns off all the lights in the rest of the house, makes sure the garage doors are closed, and that the rest of the doors are locked.
I just can't think of any reason why, if I were building any sort of business (tech or otherwise) I would incorporate google services (apart form google search ads, perhaps) into any aspect of it that I would deem "essential" or even "important". Even Drive & the associated sheets/docs/etc I look at with an eye towards "be ready to mass download the lot of it on short notice"

As an example, about two years ago they were building something that looked poised to compete with MS Power BI and Tableau. Not mature enough at that point, but promising. I poked around and saw potential for what it could offer if I pushed it forward in my work place, but I quickly realized it was a very risky career prospect: It might not work quite so well and sure, that's fine, we'd be trying it out on that possible basis. But it might work just fine, and we migrate some clunky "enterprise" reporting over, decommission some old iron, and then... ::Poof::! Google's system is gone, end-of-lifed with a 90 day notice and then I'm left holding the bag because Google is not a reliable partner for anything outside a narrow core of the selections.
That’s because we aren’t trying to look at one specific uniform distribution. We were asking why Benford’s law happens for almost all processes that follow a uniform distribution and record the result as positional notation with digits — namely that 1 appears a lot more than 2, which appears a lot more than 3, etc. Roughly in the proportion that 1 is twice that of 2, which is 1/3 more than 3, etc.

(Btw it is NOT true for eg dictionary words for example, an initial A doesnt appear more than B. That should tell you something!)

And to understand the reason we just have to look at the family of uniform distributions, and see that for almost all of them, this proportion holds. Sure, for some of them, the 1,2,3 may be even MORE prevalent relative to 4-9 because the maximum value was 400 or 4000 or 40000. Ok? You can see this. For a uniformly distributed process that happens to have that as the maximum, Benford’s law will have the same proportions between 1,2,3 but then drop for 4-9 since they didn’t get that “boost”.

But if you keep sampling and this maximum keeps growing by some continuous distribution that’s not perfectly synced with the metric system, then it’s as likely to be in the range 100-200 as it is to be in 200-300. And then as likely to be in 1000-2000 as in 2000-3000. Given that, we get something like Benford’s law.

Now, perhaps it is ALSO TRUE for other distributions. I just explained why it’s true for uniform ones.
After reading all the classic Ronald Dahl stories as a child I more recently discovered “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”. The titular tale is great entertainment, especially in light of the current trendiness of meditation. Another story in that book “The Hitch-hiker” is also good fun.

On the other hand I would not particularly recommend “Skin and other stories” which I also discovered recently but did not connect with.
It's very easy to point out the world's problems and not provide an actual, realistic, solution.
Yes, I know that they're free. I was just wondering why such an ubiquitous thing like a usually very cheap umbrella needs to be locked away in the first place. In Japan from all places.

Of course, and if it's only a standard bucket, there's a very good chance that you walk away with the wrong umbrella. But are people really that attached to their specific personal umbrella, which is exactly the same as yours, that this matters?

To the other replier: They're very common in museums and comparable venues. Department stores usually have that appliance thing were your umbrella gets wrapped in a plastic baggie to avoid dripping. One wonders, alas, how sustainable that is.
Apollo had my favourite feature from any Reddit browsing experience, which was displaying the parent comment of the comment you are viewing if you used 3D Touch. I found this incredibly useful while browsing through long discussions, and it made the experience of reading through comments, which are often my favourite part of using Reddit, so much more convenient than anywhere else.

After Apple removed 3D Touch from their new devices, I assumed that some kind of workaround would be introduced into the app, even if it wouldn’t be as convenient as the old method. But despite seeing it mentioned a bunch of times on the Apollo subreddit, the usually very responsive developer has ignored people asking about it, and no workaround has appeared. It’s still probably the best Reddit app out there, but it’s a real shame to see such a useful feature removed and users ignored.
This forum has an unambiguous policy on post titles that link to research articles. Do you object to that policy? Do you think the peer-reviewed journal's editors were somehow inaccurate in the choice of article titles they used, or do you think (just maybe?) that the strengthening of the title's conclusions was done to generate sensational click-bait?