skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple sure sells a lot of iPhones at around the $1000 price point, and they’re not selling those at a loss. I don’t see any reason to think that the laws of the physics are such that it’s simply impossible to sell a gaming console the same way that, you know, almost every product in the world is sold: for more money than it costs to make.
Durov's exile lasted for less than two months https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/technology/once-celebrate...

He was never properly persecuted. He never had a close call with McPolonium when eating out. He's not considered an actual threat.
I don't think being caught up with SoftBank is the issue. More that SoftBank have a subset of very negative indicators in their selection process
That's not IMAP job that is a service on top.
+Countrywide, Indymac, and Bear Stearns
My guess is Google wants a closed web platform eventually. Highly optimized for Chrome websites adhering to Google made standards, hosted on Google servers for optimization and higher ranking in the 95% search engine. Site origins hidden from users so they won't know the difference if it is Bloomberg or Googlberg anymore. Chrome browser itself pushing boundaries of standards and ever changing to keep others in the dust and lagging months/years behind on Google invented things. Proprietary email extensions so that full feature set will work only in gmail to gmail exchanges. Proprietary google docs extensions which will work properly only in Chrome. And so on. This is system will work extremely well when used everywhere and by majority of users, so nobody will want to try alternatives. And all this will be with very nicely done, quiet and non-intrusive Ads, provided by Google of course.
Watching Youtube videos of real people trying electrical builds (wiring a shed, van, new house, etc), then reading the comments by real electricians telling them all the places they've messed up and aren't to code has actually been a very good learning experience for me.
Nope, they were fully spun off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris
Could you be more precise in what you are responding to?
They've always had that capability.

1. Hack the server

2. Read every dissident groups' messages.

3. No step 3.
I used this recently to try to get a more robust slope estimation on a small microcontroller with a noisy sensor! And was pretty surprised to discover it after having done this kind of stuff for a long time. Very cool technique!
Thanks for this. Just reminds me how much I hate the entire business model of venture capital circa 2020.

If you are a founder just remember that raising capital is a tool just like any other. Misuse of it can be disastrous for your business.

I’d encourage more entrepreneurs to build companies like Basecamp.
How did you go about calculating that? Did you just use the deaths / population measure that the Wikipedia article mentions, or was it trickier than that? Sounds like a "fun" way to calculate risk.
While that is annoying, I would argue this isn't an issue with the units, but just a fact about how probability works.

Setting aside micromorts, you can't say a 50% chance of death + a 50% chance of death = 100% chance of death, either.
As reported by the German press:

https://m.dw.com/en/wirecard-ceo-markus-braun-resigns/a-5387...
> Really? I've had pretty much no issues playing video games on Linux for the past 2 years.

Yes, really. This just sounds like the standard Linux Desktop evangelist "Works for me! (TM)". Take this case [0], where in it is claimed that support requests for Linux were vastly disproportionate to the number of Linux users.

Linux has huge problems as a platform due to its fragmentary and ever-changing nature combined with its near-total disregard (in userland) for backwards compatibility. People have been screaming this at the community for the better part of a decade and a half (including Linus himself!) and mostly falling on deaf ears.

Which is not to say that one should support Epic if you do happen to care about gaming on Linux. Quite the opposite, as Valve has done more than anyone[1] to try and make it work.

[0] https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760

[1] With the exception of the entire WINE project in general
Hello :-) My interpretation is not that it is that it is everywhere, but rather that it has a depressingly large influence and impact.
And then having enough fuel leftover to return to Earth from Geostationary orbit with your manned craft.
I don't think so, looking at [0], but I'm not sure what they're being used for.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_microprocess...
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Does it have power limitations on the number of simultaneously active solenoids? A friend ran into that problem. Can it play Circus Galop? https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/03/unplayable-piece-used-t...
But you can download an .EXE file from anywhere and run it on your Windows computer (don't try that at home!). No any Store required. Hell, you can even write a program yourself and run it, completely free, imagine that!
>They need VR credibility

5 months until they bring in John Carmack?

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20963899/john-carmack-st...
If Microsoft or Nvidia wanted to use open APIs they would just support technologies that already exist, e.g there is GPU virtualization with Virgil 3D. There also VirtIO which is standard for all kind of virtualized interfaces, but again Microsoft only interested in using their proprietary tech.

Microsoft could also just use Vulkan instead of bringing proprietary Direct3D user pace to Linux. Or might be they could actually open source parts of their stack, but then it's will be against their vendor lock-in.
I've never understood the use of the Laplace transform. Perhaps that's due to my mathematical exposure (theoretical qualitative analysis of pdes). Since the Laplace transform lacks the duality of the Fourier transform, it doesn't seem to have a place in research mathematics. But I probably think of a dozen fundamental uses of the Fourier transform, from Bourgain spaces to evaluating oscillatory integrals. And if you're working on some manifold with curvature then you generally need to be familiar with the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on that manifold... not the basis of the Laplace transform.

I also know a bit of signal processing\numerical analysis, and I'm not familiar with any practical uses of the Laplace transform there. I don't believe it's used in the numerical solution of pdes or odes, whereas spectral methods are a huge area of study and (until recently, I think) were used in the GFS weather model. And most time series analysis tools either apply the Fourier transform or bail out of this approach and use statistical tools.

My version of Greenspun's 10th rule goes: any sufficiently complex program includes an FFT.

Can anyone help me out here? Is there a problem/theorem the Laplace transform solves/proves which the Fourier transform doesn't?
The Russian state knew the ban wasn't effective, they just wanted to save face for being humiliated wrt Telegram not handing private TLS keys.

They never needed those keys however, they've always had the capability to hack the server.
There is integration. I don't know what it is these days but it used to be mostly carriers adjusting TCP timeouts on their NAT boxes.

The issue is that a long lived TCP connection consumes some valuable RAM and a port number on a valuable IP address. It costs carriers something for push notifications to work, so, they tend to aggressively close long lived TCP connections that aren't going to recognised push datacenters.

For that to work you need business relationships with the carriers of course, stable IP addresses, and enough users of your push service for it to be worthwhile.

IPv6 would fix it by eliminating IP scarcity and CGNAT, but most mobile networks aren't provisioning handsets with IPv6 addresses.
The second option, keep in mind speaking from reading and not from experience
I'm also not sure that the "but consoles are closed" argument would be a slam dunk anyway, even if they were exactly the same, because I would absolutely support either requiring Microsoft to open up the XBox or allowing game developers to bypass Microsoft's controls.

It's not clear to me why loss-leading consoles are a good thing for consumers. It just means that:

A) games will be more expensive, because Microsoft needs to make more money on them, and

B) a smaller number of games will be made, because the barrier of entry to profitability on any single game will be increased by forcing developers to subsidize Microsoft's costs.

Microsoft is still going to make the same amount of money regardless. They'll either charge upfront, or that cost will be passed on to consumers in the form of more expensive, less experimental games.

So, I dunno. People who make the comparison between Apple and XBox should maybe be careful what they wish for, because I'm more than happy to go after XBox, Playstation, and Switch with the exact same criticisms. I am skeptical that there are many indie game developers who are happy that they need to jump through hoops to get development consoles, or sign NDAs just to target a platform.
$1M of A.I. utility tokens to 1M developers
I'll just leave this here:
http://orbitofshame.org
As someone who uses a SPA (React) for webapps - I find it very useful. I run into issues that wouldn't happen if building purely html/css/vanilla js and when that happens I fix the issue.

The biggest benefit of using a framework IMO is that you're given a fairly strict structure to work within, which makes organization a lot easier. For someone who isn't a master, having some rules "baked in", helps a lot.

That being said, I wouldn't use React to build a static page/site, that makes no sense.
Interchange fees on personal credit cards have been capped to 0.3% in the EU (in a law from 2015). As a result, there are no 1-2% cash back options for cards to keep track of or any other silliness, you can just use your credit card as a method of payment, without thinking about which card to use for what.

I'd personally welcome similar regulation caps on app stores (higher than 0.3%, but also certainly lower than 30%) in the EU.
I'm very skeptical. We can't even get police to properly investigate many crimes in the US, let alone without "making a mess". The idea that we're going to magically invent AI that "detects crime" and carries out lethal summary judgment seems completely detached from reality. By the time we have general AI that can do that, we won't even be in charge anymore and whatever happens from there will be up to the AIs.
Lifetime forwarding if someone has a paid account? This will change in time. I wouldn't rely on it.
Out of curiosity, how does any government detain anyone without - at least as a final resort - lethal force?

[I bet I'll get more downvotes than answers].
Seattle-based OVP Partners which shut down a few years ago also had a interesting anti-portfolio page. The Starbucks story was hilarious:

“A guy walks into your office some time in the late 1980s and says he wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars.

Of course, you listen politely, and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. Howard Schultz didn’t see this as humorous. And we didn’t make 500 times our money.” OVP believed that there was no market for Starbucks’ premium coffee, which may indeed have been the prevailing wisdom at the time,
* Already made a lot of jumps in the past 5 years -- don't want to get pigeonholed as a jumper or mercenary or "hard to work with"; I've already gotten the 20% raises by jumping a few times, time to chill

* Apropos of the above, current salary and bennies are decent, bonus potential is great; no reason to rock the boat now

* Work teams are a mess at times but are tolerable enough. Being 100% remote at this point is cool. Better the devil you know, etc.

* Looking to buy a house and have a kid/kids soon, would rather focus on home life for now before creating additional wrinkles

* Been using a lot of different technologies over the past 5-7 years, "jack-of-all" but no mastery. I'd like to specialize a little more and go deep into a stack/language/skill-set. Easier to be at one place and focus on getting fluency and skill then throwing more complications into things.
I'd imagine it's more that Microsoft takes a smaller cut if they come to the store via krita.org versus finding it through the store itself, so they don't want to give that up.
It's a bit like GW Bush, now that you have Trump you forget how awful he was (Patriot Act, War in Iraq, ...).
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What a time to be alive... Microsoft calling for anti-trust action. Oh how the tables have turned.
To note another interesting double standard, its interesting how different people view say, the Waco situation than this.
To a degree they would not have been invented with out the weapon. For example thorium reactors are designed in the 60s. The US ignored them because we couldn’t make weapons from their waste. The only reason thorium even got started was we thought it could be a weapon.
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Naming functions with acronyms instead of names is totally unrelated to familiarity with math notation. You don't even use acronyms in papers, you use greek symbols and letters written in special fonts.
On Performative Entrepreneurship
I feel like startups value credentials less than experience. I would probably just jump into a startup now so that you can continue to learn while getting real life experience and building that network.
Right, because that's exactly what I said.

Apple won't want to have 5 different systems for 5 different regions of the world. They'll streamline everything into one app store model that works for everybody.
I always find that name-clash very annoying.
They have a couple, but this chapter is in Rework - https://basecamp.com/books/rework
Yes, I find it hard to believe that YouTube charging 30% or 40% more for a YouTube Premium subscription through iOS and not telling the customer that they are paying a vastly inflated price because Apple insists on getting a cut is protecting or advocating for consumers in any way, shape or form.
Talking Tokens: Interview with the Creator of Flighty and Weather Line
I really think prioritizing a subsurface mission to Europa's ocean should be the primary focus. If life does exist under the subsurface ice it will be the biggest discovery in history. Even if it doesn't, the exploration of an off-world ocean will be huge.
You are relying on the presumption that they won't become autonomous machines for wiping out "criminals".

A drone can be used for more than a singular purpose. There might be more efficient ways to kill someone we already know like you said but what if we don't know them yet?

What if they don't exist yet?

Imagine you have a crowd and there is one violent person inside it, how would you immobilize such a person without harming the others?
"Private" and "public" companies don't have the same meaning in our side of the Pond. In France, "public" = "state-owned" and "private" = "not public".
Ask HN: How to help elderly grandparent with technology?
My grandfather sadly has dementia, and is finding it harder and harder to use his computer. He has a Macbook Air and mostly uses 5 websites (gmail / Google, Netflix, Amazon, Times of India, and CNN).

I'm concerned about the following:
+ People send him email spam, or even corporate emails, and he can't tell the difference between a real email and a phishing email / corporate marketing email
+ He'll make small changes, such as accidentally logging out of Netflix or removing a bookmark, and then get stuck trying to get back to the site
+ I haven't have a good way to remotely connect to his computer to help him out that. Even with common remote access apps they require him to click on a few buttons, which takes 20 minutes to figure out

Any suggestions?
Less than 20% of Bitcoin is actively traded, 60% held long-term
What do you mean by "staff"?
Hi! You mean just pick up from the browser, then publish stream to 100k+ people? That's not too difficult...

If you're ok with introducing a little bit of latency, the easiest way forward is webrtc to rtmp conversion. You could easily introduce headless mixing capability on top of https://github.com/voc/voctomix . We hacked together a quick and really dirty web frontend in https://github.com/FOSDEM/infrastructure/tree/master/ansible . It does the job, so we never felt the urge to change it...

Scaling the stream to ∞ viewers is easy using only free and open source software.

Feel free to get in touch.
Made a fixed map without the above approximation. It just assumes the earth is a perfect sphere.

https://droid.cafe/starlink
XBox isn't as gatekept as it used to be. It's pretty easy to run software on it now, though perhaps not as easy as XBox Live Indie Games was
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/
Why aren't they doing this now? Why haven't all flights been grounded worldwide because they keep getting brought down by flying IEDs?
Cool library.
I’m not sure if the name adds any value (something more tree-based would make more sense?), but if you’re going to use it you should make a logo with noodles or something.

GitHub readme needs some images.
Ask HN: Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?
Required at times for interviews or programming puzzles, knowledge I lack.
On the one hand, I hate Hey's aggressive marketing, but on the other - any serious competition to Gmail is a very good thing.
The U.S. is one of the few countries that actually prosecutes financial fraud. Here in Canada we've quietly become the world's money laundering leader, or at least second only to Switzerland and there's essentially zero resources dedicated to any kind of enforcement.
No single event led to the Dark Ages. It was the result of centuries of economic and intellectual decay, combined with catastrophic invasions and wars. By 536 the Western Roman Empire was already some 60 years in its grave. (Though some argue about the actual end date.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_Augustulus
You might want to read your own comments then. What I'm saying is we shouldn't blindly trust either of two sides. You disagree.
Don't touch anything from Spolsky. He's toxic and it will die.
I think more competition in this space is great, and overall we'll all benefit. However, notice that when you open up Steam, the default view is your library of games, whereas when you open the Epic Games Launcher, your default view is the store. This suggests to me that BD folks are running the show, rather than folks who are interested in games. Valve has spent the better part of the last 20 years proving that they generally make decisions for Steam that put gamers first- enough so to convince me, a dedicated FOSS and free culture supporter to pay for DRMed games. I've also purchased a game from the Epic Game Store, and while the experience wasn't as good (the Epic Games Launcher is pretty half-baked software), I expect them to iterate and improve it, unlike EA's Origin software which is almost comically broken.
Or key value lists where the keys have slightly different lengths.
TL;DR At the start
Elon Musk Bitcoin vanity addresses used to scam users out of $2M
The only times I have heard from people who have worked on projects after me is the odd phone call to thank me for the documentation and the clarity of code, just as an intro to ask me a "what should we do about this?" or some kind of obscure historical follow-up.

Case in point, I had written an apartment search website in Perl. Now, at this point I had been pretty disenchanted with Perl as a whole due to the "there's more than one way to do it" culture combining with the "executable line noise" syntax to give rise to a lot of very impenetrable write-once, read-never-again code from others. So, when I did this, I used real, appropriately-named variables, eschewing the convenience of $_, and I made sure each line of code did one thing and only one thing if at all possible. I did not pack a lot into a line. Each line should be obvious. Where I felt that it might be subject to interpretation, I added comments as to what I was doing and why. Each function had is own comment section which discussed what it was for and why, possible room for improvement, and so on.

Eventually the duty passed to another set of hands, a bunch of students who had never seen Perl (the rise of PHP was strong at that point) and in the follow-up, they mentioned that they found it very straightforward to simply re-write each line.

I heard back in the past few months about one of those very large projects I did in a previous job, just keeping touch with people. I asked about one of my personal pet projects. "No, it just keeps running." "It's very obvious where to make any changes." All Python. No type stuff.

I just don't see what I am missing.
Will do - we'll make some noise when ready.
- Ian
I was surprised to see that 1 cigarette equals to about 140 charcoal-broiled steaks. From this point of view, you should never ever in your life worry about eating charcoal-broiled steak.
"Xbox" is more than just the console; the Microsoft Store is a unified platform used to distribute both their console and PC games.
You mentioned database constraints and testing already, which are great automated methods.

Besides these automated methods another way to monitor data integrity is for a human to manually analyze the data for inconsistencies. And to ask other domain experts at your company to analyze the data for issues. Sometimes this is called the “smell test”. This method can be an effective way to find deeper integrity issues with your data that would be hard to find with automated tests.

Maintaining data integrity is very difficult, domain dependent, and takes lots of work. Good luck!
Deepfake?
Probably not at all. However I don’t think any one has an EM defense aside from some really odd looking guns by the French and nuclear bombs. https://interestingengineering.com/7-anti-drone-weapons-used...

We’re in a new arms race. Better drones. Better anti drone systems. Hopefully better pizza delivery.
We could debate the appropriate level of friction for running this class of software, but GP said:

> Apple has always been far more controlling than Microsoft

Notarization came out with Catalina.
Computation All the Way Down: A Conversation with Stephen Wolfram
Amen!! It reminds me of the people who used to talk down on devs who use Java, C#, Python, and basically any language that isn’t C++ “because it’s more efficient” and all the others are “terrible and bloated.”
I agree. Linux definitely has a long way before it's usable for the majority of the public for gaming. I only wanted to point that out because the myth that Linux can't play games still exists for some reason, while I'm sitting here playing every game that I want (except for those with rootkit anti-cheats. I have a VM for them).
Sorry I miss your reply. I create opam switches to have different versions of compiler, or allow libraries that conflict to live at different branches.

1. Dune is a relative new build system for Ocaml. You just write a configuration file, and dune will handle switches automatically. "It also supports multi-context builds, such as building against several opam roots/switches simultaneously. This helps maintaining packages across several versions of OCaml and gives cross-compilation for free." See https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/dune/

2. Yes. You can can multiple versions library at different switch.

3. I am not sure.
spouting ? those are facts... ycombinator is testing the level of awareness from its community that's it. But the case has been closed long ago with an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence backed by real proven sound facts ! Sorry if it is hard to accept. Example: https://www.aulis.com/raytracing_as11.htm
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