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To pass ACA the Democrats needed 60 out of 100 seats in the Senate and they had 58. To pass it they caucused with two independents, and one of them, Joe Lieberman, specifically would not vote for it if it had a public option.
Seems it'd be a substantial savings even if only (2) is true. A 55-year-old who's retiring a bit early after holding Amazon for twenty years could avoid a lot of capital gains.
How Your Application Architecture Has Evolved
If you have been developing or been involved with application architecture in one way or another, then you have definitely seen a lot of changes in the last few years. So many different types of architectures and technologies have come and gone that sometimes it can be hard to keep track of them.
probably referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurji_Zaydan who was an orthodox christian, but lebanese, not greek
How To Add Pop Ups, or How to Lose Users in 10 easy steps!
Take any AMD 5000 series card. I had a top of the line 5700.

Still no driver for compute 1 year later. I'm so happy i decided to return it and switch to intel instead of waiting for AMD or some random joe on their free time to add support for it to their open source driver.

So yeah. I'd take a working proprietary driver over no driver any day.
I wonder how much game theory there is in having a super sized cash stockpile. Internally apple managers are unlikely to be pressured on R&D costs including salaries, long-term goals. They also are more likely to not be concerned with sunk costs, and can cut projects/features if they don't seem useful to users.

From an external standpoint, competitors have to be aware that "you can't manufacture like apple" and that they will always be forced to make compromises on features/packaging/price in comparison to an apple product.
Visit them first! I really did not like Malta, I would 100% go with Portugal, or Spain/Madeira.
I think those are valid conserns. And I also think it can be handled, for instance by fractal algorithms. Most houses are just subsets of a general style, so I'd be quite interested in seeing some work done on procedurally modelled houses. I think doing it in a believable way completely feasible with todays technology. Hell, I could even take a crack at it myself, with POV-Ray^[1] lol. But given that it's an old ray tracer I don't think it would translate very well to modern game engines. It is entirely script driven, though, which makes things a lot easier when it comes to generating procedural contents.

[1]: http://www.povray.org/
Ah, so I guess it's just some over-engineered piece of code. Again I'm no web dev, so very limited JavaScript experience.

Well, at least the author made it clear it was code from back when he was still learning JavaScript.
There has been a China version of so many apps and websites for a very long time, where China companies have to have full control of the data.

US is doing to China what China been doing to US companies since forever.

In Amazon, Microsoft etc, US engineers of those companies aren't allowed to access the China servers directly and have to go through the Chinese operators.
Yeah, the "soft power" of Hollywood is certainly significant and it is kind of genius that the U.S. realized this so early.

But it's not going to be the basis on which regimes stand or fall. Especially in China, where the cultural barrier is most likely higher in terms of "connecting", than it was in Eastern Europe.
i don’t really get how this works. will the US one have global users or just US ones?
I wouldn’t buy real estate in USA because some upcoming candidates likely start taxing everything under the sun out of their beliefs.

Indeed I’d buy quality real estate outside of USA which could be found at a bargain now due to covid.
> I just see it is ripe for abuse

Insurers not having control of which hospitals they associate with is ripe for even more abuse.
The real point is, Apple is an integration company that has now added self-made silicon to its toolset. Whereas in the past, they created the M chips for tracking motion in phones and watches, and the T chips for Secure Enclave and Secure Storage, the roadmap Apple displayed during the keynote indicates they are going to create specialty chips for any application that makes sense.
> It's kinda sad that JavaScript needs so many lines of code to figure out if a number is even, but understandable due to its dynamic nature.

Except it doesn't need that many, and what it does need is due to the choice of main numeric type, not it's dynamic nature; almost all the line count in is-odd is about producing superfluously detailed error messages in the case of invalid values, and that includes the is-number dependency. The only check actually needed to deal with input for which the substantive check is incorrect is the isSafeInteger check (which subsumes all the others), which would be needed even if JS was a static-typed language, since this function operates by design on the Number (IEEE-754 double precision binary float) type, not the more recent BigInt type.
They already have distributed cheap developer machines.

And their profit on Mac hardware is only 15-20%. You may price at double build costs, but there is still design, R&D, testing, sales, marketing, distribution, support, warranty costs and admin overhead to be accounted for.
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While we're at it, maybe we could enforce easier access to credit information. One report per year with no credit score is absurdly restrictive.
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs.

Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
There'is no person to whom he is replying.
Show HN: Miner – static site blog based on Sapper/Svelte
From the US-China conflict perspective, it seems the Trump administration is looking for something that China cannot easily retaliate.

China can easily pick a consulate to close when the US closes consulate in Houston. But businesses from the US in China always require Chinese companies to operate, just like World of Warcraft is operated by NetEase in China.

After Microsoft acquire Tiktok's operation, if China just picks some US business to do the same it would make China looks too soft because China is already doing this for decades, and Trump could claim the US has beaten China in this round. But if China escalates the conflict by retaliating in radical ways, the Trump administration could rally more before the election.
What part of this system makes it easier for essential workers to get tested? Limiting testing to the wealthy doesn't make it so a grocery store clerk or a bus driver gets a test any easier, it makes it harder.
> The key, of course, is "on a long enough time frame". If you think there's a reasonable chance you might need the cash in two or five years, then you should either significantly reduce your exposure to equities like the S&P 500 or eliminate it entirely.

The shorter the timeframe that the money is needed, the higher the allocation to bonds. Vanguard has (in Canada) a bunch of 'all-in-one' ETFs that have as their holdings other ETFs in various asset groups: Canadian equity, US equity, international equity, bonds.

Shortly after they were announced, someone back-tested their returns to determine which of the offerings a person should get:

> I analyzed hypothetical Vanguard asset allocation ETF performance over the past 20 years ending June 2019, and here’s what I found:

> The worst 1- and 2-year periods were negative for all five ETFs.* [i.e., put it in term deposit to at least try to keep up with inflation]

> The worst 3-year period was negative for all ETFs except the Conservative Income ETF Portfolio (VCIP), which holds 80% in bonds; even still, VCIP only returned 1%.

> The worst 4-year period was negative for all ETFs except VCIP and the Conservative ETF Portfolio (VCNS) [60% bonds]. But these only returned 2.2% and 0.2% respectively.

> Looking further out:

> If you need the cash in 5–9 years, VCIP or VCNS should be the only Vanguard asset allocation ETFs on your radar. Even the Balanced ETF Portfolio (VBAL) [40% bonds], which allocates 60% to stocks, returned only 0.3% over its worst 9-year period.

> If you won’t need the cash for 10–14 years, VBAL could be an appropriate choice, as even its worst 10-year return during this period was around 2%.

> If you don’t need the cash for 15–19 years, you could look at a more aggressive ETF, like the Growth ETF Portfolio (VGRO). [20% bonds]

> If you’re investing for 20 years or more (and you are comfortable dialing up your portfolio risk to eleven), the All-Equity ETF Portfolio (VEQT) might be right up your alley. [0% bonds, 100% equities]

* https://www.canadianportfoliomanagerblog.com/choosing-your-i...

Note: if you're looking at long time-horizons (e.g., retirement in 20 years), and you can take higher risks, does not mean you have to: you need to first determine what your goal is (e.g., how big of a pot of money you need), and then work backwards from there to determine what kind of returns are needed to get there. If you need 'only' 3% returns, it probably is not necessary to take on extra risk to chase after 6%.
No Grace Period After Invalidation of EU-US Privacy Shield in Schrems II
Right. So the point is really “the winners win.”
Indeed. It's hard to go back and argue a different interpretation later in court, if the intended interpretation is so clearly stated and defined.
That sounds wrong. From wiki "In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (TC), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties". What you're saying is that metals stop being attracted to magnets above a certain, rather low temperature. Possible but very hard for me to imagine.
And people concerned about “the economy” care about geeks not being able to sideload or having to go to a website to subscribe to Netflix. Out of the 5 major tech companies, the only one that has a negative image in the mind of most people is Facebook - and they still use it.

The issues that you bring up don’t affect most people. Most people willingly spend their money at Apple and Amazon. People spend more to buy Apple devices despite all of the drawbacks that geeks care about.

Besides that, Apple isn’t raising the ire of conservatives about being “unfair” to them or having a negative effect on the election by liberals.
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Their lenses I think are all JavaScript, not sure if it’s WebGl rendering though, but it would make sense to do that to be cross platform
In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.53 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.
> As someone who has spent the last year disentangling a manufacturing supply chain from China

What did that entail? Details welcomed!

I'm currently finishing up my Final on my Supply Chain Operations course and the focus of my research paper is the low quality PPE manufacturing that has been centralized in China, specifically the provinces outside the city outside of Wuhan, which are currently undergoing massive flood damage and causing massive disruption and delays:

https://www.manufacturing.net/supply-chain/news/21140690/rep...

My proposal is entirely theoretical, although I do conclude with utilizing possible intermediaries (currently operational) in Hong Kong and Taiwan that can support a portion of the demand as they did during the initial outbreak in January, but it currently remains an entirely unsubstantial amount of daily output to compete with China (when its fully operational) for all of the entire Western Nations needs that are currently undertaking sanctions against CCP/China. I make the argument of questionable tolerances in QC/QA, which when dealing with PPE can be deadly and a critical point of exposure to spread and increase overall infection rates.

I'd like to hear what Industry/Sector you focused on and any significant roadblocks you may have encountered if you're willing to share.
Apples Mac margins are in the 15-30% range. They will price to maintain those margins, so if they can build a viable $800 MacBook at those margins they will take the additional market share.

The iPad Air was a $500+ tablet until they were able to build a $299 model at same margins.
I’m new to Rust, but it doesn’t appear to be.

If I’m following correctly, it would only occur if a library is using a struct defined in a dependency in a public API you are using and you also use the same dependency elsewhere in your application. Upgrading the version elsewhere in your application could break passing that struct.

Most of the time I see public APIs which either base types or struct a defined by the library itself.
Oh nice. Font Awesome was getting greedy.
>FCC does not think about space pollution

Orbital debris mitigation is an essential part of an application sent to the FCC

Things they care about:

* Will your satellites survive an uncontrolled re-entry? What parts of the satellite won't burn up in the atmosphere? Will any surviving debris have more than 15 joules of kinetic energy when it reaches the ground? If so, what are the odds of injuring a human?

* How will your satellites deorbit? If the satellite fails before you can deorbit it, how long will it take to deorbit naturally?

* How will you avoid collisions with other satellites?

etc. It's true that the process doesn't take into account light pollution, but that's just one of the many forms of pollution to worry about
Stop StopBadware.org and Google from UNFAIRLY blocking websites
Google (via StopBadware.org) has blocked our website. The blocking started immediately: before allowing us to respond to their accusations and even before we realized any accusations had been laid. Should Google (and StopBadware.org) have the power to effectively banish websites from the web without any due process? Your business or organizations is also at risk of summary conviction and immediate punishment (blocked!) without any due process. What do you think about that?!?

Note that websites are blocked for Chrome and Firefox users, since both of these use StopBadware.org.

See "DETAILS" in a reply below (it wouldn't fit in Hackernews' 2000 char limit).

Our website is not some click-bait shady website. We are the national governing body for a sport. Our members need our website to find out about tournaments. Our tournament organizers need our website to lookup info about players to run their tournaments. So there is real economic and reputational damage to us as a result of Google deciding to block us without any due process. The punishment remains in effect while we wait for another review.

Should Google have this power? Should Google be allowed to inflict immediate punishment (blocking)? Should Google give at least 5 business days notice before they inflict punishment? Or should it be more like the criminal justice system, innocent until proven guilty including after an appeal.

This is important as there can be real economic and reputational damage resulting from these autocratic actions.
DETAILS: On July 3, our website was blocked the 1st time. This was justified (although I disagree with the immediate punishment): it was an old Drupal 7 site that was installed in 2011 and, because of budget constraints, rarely received security patches. For years, it had the Drupageddon and Drupalgeddon exposures. Not surprising it was infested with malware. This is when I got involved (volunteering my time & skills). The website was rewritten as a static site (virtually unhackable) using Hugo on Netlify. On July 26, we were unblocked.

At 1am ET this morning (Aug 1), we were blocked by Google again! The new (Hugo) website had one link to the old (Drupal) website (now with a different subdomain) so users could access content we had not yet migrated to the new website. This link was the reason Google gave for blocking us. I read Google's notification at 6am and immediately removed the links and requested a review via Google's Search Console. At 9am, Google said the review had failed, our website was still blocked, without any additional information. Search Console still says the bad link is to the old website's subdomain. I verified my Hugo source files: there is zero instances of the old website's subdomain name. At 10:30 I submitted another request for review and am still waiting for a response. Their request pop-up says "Warning! Requesting a review of issues that weren't fixed will result in longer review cycles" so I may be waiting a longer time.

(BTW, anyone with inside Google connections, help would be appreciated)
BootHole is a GRUB2 vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to bypass Secure Boot protections. The patches for RHEL/CentOS lead to failures in booting due to a crash in the UEFI loader for GRUB2.
This is the rationale between sovereign clouds like Azure Germany, I think. In that case Microsoft provides the software and design, but the whole cloud is operated by EU citizens and no Americans have direct access. The idea being that Microsoft couldn't be compelled to hand over data because it has no access. I'm sure AWS (and maybe GCP) have such things by now.

Disclaimer: I work in Azure but not on this, so my info may be wrong.
I don’t speak Spanish and I own condo in Panama and I renting it out and I live in USA.

So I’m walking my talk.
I appreciate the comment and I’ll look into one.
“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.”

— Peter Lynch
So if I summarize correctly they re-evaluated already “FDA passed” but abandoned substances for anti-cancer workings using new techniques (CRISPR) and got 50 hits. That’s amazing! Would this work in other fields as well?
A 15 megapixel smarphone camera on a cubesat is not going to be comparable with ground based imaging
In Europe, sure. But imho if a customer verbally abuses employees, it's perfectly fair to cease doing business with them.
You can’t walk into an Amazon store and buy toys. Retail is still a lot larger than e-commerce especially for kids who like to browse. Kohl’s is tiny compared to Walmart and doing distribution only in Kohl’s is a non starter. Not to mention the catalog is online - not physical stores.

Best Buy sells electronic games but there is far more to toys than that.
Seems a huge pain to use, compared to FA.
> None of those other stores sell toys

B&N, Target, Costco, IKEA, and a number of others on the list do, in fact, sell toys in their brick and mortar stores.
> I also find it impressive that Apple managed to get us all saying “Apple Silicon” instead of “processor” or “CPU” in the first place. It does have a much hipper ring to it.

Credit where it is due, Apple knows how to name.

Many technology pundits fail to understand (or perhaps more to the point believe) Apple's naming choices, with "iPad" being a notable recent-ish example. [0]

Even many who "get" Apple's product naming can misjudge. I personally was unmoved by the name "iMac" when it was announced in 1998. However, that leading lowercase "i" was a stroke of marketing genius so broad that it is only just now diminishing some twenty years later.

[0] https://www.cultofmac.com/310020/ipad-haters-5th-anniversary...
For this reason Billboard US had to change its rules and ban counting merch or ticket-bundled album sales: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9417842/billboar...
AirBnB's business in China doesn't look so attractive anymore.
LuaJIT has been stable for several years, and has IMHO a low chance of making major breaking changes, because it includes thousands of lines of code in seven different assembly languages, plus the lead developer seems to be burned out with big changes and is just keeping the lights on (2.1 has been beta3 for a long time). Nonetheless it does have eyeballs on it. It's also easy and fast.

One issue is that it has diverged from Lua but still shares the same name. Mainstream Lua will probably continue to be a rapidly moving target.
Xiaomi rice cooker is the best, I own a few and it really is great. The pot is not thin steel.

I miss my old Panasonic copper rice cooker that I had in Japan. :( Gave it away.
Uploading dependencies to your repo? Don't! Better use a GitHub action
Turning the other cheek are nice words on paper but in reality you'll just end up being abused.
> I’ve been programming since 1965, read Dijkstra, Niklaus Wirth.

Well sir, you have me by ten years, and believe me I respect that extra decade. That said, I think you're falling into the trap many of us greybeards tumble into as we get older: the things we cared about and focused on become, in our minds, the right and true perspective that has been lost or disregarded by younger practitioners. It's really not very different from "When I was your age I walked to school every day, uphill, both ways!" Or maybe it's just me.

Yes, there are far fewer programmers hand optimizing assembly code, and yes every programmer now cobbles together applications by reusing code written by other programmers, some of which is very good, and some of which is not. But if programmers were still spending their time optimizing low level loops and eschewing any code that they did not personally write and verify the beauty of, the world we have today would not exist. Instead of zooming with my family in the middle of a pandemic we'd be exchanging emails, or posting on a BBS to say "Hi!" There's obviously still a need and role for people who like to work at that level, and that kind of engineering remains fascinating (one of the reasons I love to read the linux kernel mailing list), but I don't bemoan the rise of high level languages, libraries, package management ecosystems, frameworks and the like. That stuff has given us the world we have today, and a few warts notwithstanding I still like it much better than the one we had.
And then the bombshell: Five days from now their current stay ended and they’d have to leave. But they still didn’t have a place to go.

It was a punch to the gut. Hearing it directly from John made it viscerally real in a way that no powerpoint on poverty could hope to achieve.

I wanted to help. And not just give money.
I have no opinion.

That's why I asked topicseed, accepting her/his argument that emerging markets need protection, when (and if) China should open up.

But apparently topicseed hasn't updated her/his thesis since 2005.

As for Tesla in China, I dimly recall that it's in partnership. SOP for BRICS economies. Quick search... Nope. I was wrong. This 2018 article states Tesla is the first foreign company allowed to operate in China without a domestic partner. https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/news/companies/tesla-china-...

Now I'm almost curious if there have been others since.