skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FDA just authorized emergency use of SalivaDirect a couple days ago. [1]

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/15/fda-clears-saliva-test-f...
Brasília was built in the middle of nowhere in the 1950s/1960s. It took the mandate of federal government relocation to bring in the middle- and upper-classes who could afford life in the Plano Piloto (the Pilot Plan, the main part of the city). The government tried to expel or disincentivize permanent settlement by the temporary workers that did the initial construction of the city, the "candangos". They ended up instead in unplanned satellite cities usually at some distance from the main city. (Just one extreme example of a planned city.)
> I'd argue that the question isn't well-defined - same as asking whether your experience of counting to five is the same as mine. There is no "experience" of seeing red beyond the simple fact of perceiving 700nm-wavelength light.

If your brain can detect 700nm-wavelength light without you having a conscious experience of red, then there certainly is a question. Also, dreaming of red is not perceiving red, since there is no 700nm light. This is why you can't just simply reduce an experience to the stimulus.

> It is no more possible for me to experience as blue what you experience as red, and vice versa, as for me to experience as 3 what you experience as 2. If I experienced it as 3, that is, one less than 4, it would actually be 3. When I dream of three objects, I experience them just like you would. I don't see why dreaming of a red object would be any different.

The question isn't about the quality of your subjective experiences, it's about whether the pattern of neurons firing would necessarily be the same between people. If not, then you can't simply reduced subjective experiences to brain states. This has been a long standing objecting to the identity theory of mind.
That's what happens in northern Canada.
I barely used ClarisWorks, but was very familiar with its BeOS-based successor, Gobe Productive. It was an incredible application; I used it as my primary office suite for years. It was just so well-integrated and thoughtfully designed; I have yet to see its equal.

Whether this kind of brilliant integration and thoughtfulness is something that could carry over to the kind of comprehensive feature sets of Microsoft Office or Libre Office is a valid question. My hunch is that it could. I wish somebody would try.
Yeah, agreed, but it's nice that it gives you the flexibility to be able to throw a `// @ts-ignore` in there and tell the compiler not to worry about it. I've definitely done that when consuming wonky libraries with messed up type definitions.
Terms and conditions can say whatever they want, but illegal terms in a contract are not binding. The problem is that this type of dispute usually takes years to litigate, so I have to think there is much more to this strategy.
Thanks, I didn't know about this article. I'm not heavily one way or the other, but I think it's important to put all the information out there.
Building a Chat Application Using the QuantumGate P2P Networking Library
> there has been criticism on Epic sending user data back to China.

This sounds like one of those tinfoil conspiracy theories. Has there been any evidence whatsoever that confirms this?
You can also connect proper NE2000 compatible Realtek 8019 ISA network card to Atari ST cartridge port using nothing more than a single 74LS245 chip (1). Especially impressive once you investigate cartridge port and learn its READ only :-), no write strobe available. The hack involves treating one of two Rom Chip Select signals as free Address Decoder and actual Address Bus as data bus. (2) There are two Rom Chip Select signals responsible for 0xFA0000 and 0xFB0000 addresses. In order to wrangle a WRITE out of read only port we translate it into reading from 0xFAxxxx where xxxx is our output value. This is also how a Covox like 12bit sound cartridge bundled with a game B.A.T. worked (game used it for digital audio and copy protection).

1/ https://sites.google.com/site/probehouse/networking-the-atar...

2/ https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv1n3/CartridgeSlot.html

3/ https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=30389&start=...
A direct quote of RMS from his website[0]:

The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

[0]: https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html

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I don't think child pornography should be legal.
How was Apple’s business model from the 1980s right through until the App Store got popular about “lock-in” though? You could say that any platform vendor’s business model is predicated on some form of lock-in.

Apple’s poor financial state under Sculley was more because they had an objectively poor product (going by the technical merits alone), a confusing product line-up, a failure to recapture the education sector that was quickly switching to Windows due to its enterprise-friendly features like Group Policy and compatibility with Directory Services like NetWare, and because it didn’t have a plan going forward into the 21st century.

I do note that in the 1990s under Sculley they both licensed macOS to third-party hardware vendors and were fine with PowerPC being adopted by other platforms (even Microsoft, and evening when it was incompatible with Apple’s architecture) - that’s the very opposite of the vendor lock-in-in that you’re describing. It can be argued that Apple’s “nice guy” approach further contributed to their decline - it certainly didn’t help raise sales nor their share-price.

Aldo consider when Steve Jobs returned they made deals with Microsoft to ensure Office would still be available for the Mac. Apple’s stewardship of WebKit was about driving open web-standards, even though Safari is very much Apple-exclusive. Apple also made a big-deal about how the then-new Mac OS X was a POSIX-compliant BSD system.

I think you’re confusing Apple’s aggressive control of the user-experience with IBM and Oracle-style lock-in. With IBM/Oracle a company or gov dept will have sunk $lots into a system that they cannot take away to a different vendor: there is literally no alternative than to continue with whatever gargantuan system their sales reps convinced the customer to buy. This is why banks and insurance companies are still rocking IBM Z-series today after 30+ years even though a system that’s just as resilient could be built for a fraction of the price on commodity hardware (I’m not going to pretend that Linux was a viable option back then, but systems like VMS or a project requirement to use POSIX were options back then). When people say that banks/insurance companies are “conservative” when it comes to technology I think it’s better to describe them as being technically inept or even corrupt which led to them being caught in vendor lock-in which paralysed them internally: I feel the arguments that they don’t want to risk losing billions over a bad technology move are just excuses for being unable to make a technology move even if they wanted to.

I believe that Apple sees that their controlling of the user-experience of its customers creates value for the user - whereas IBM/Oracle-style lock-in rarely does. I reckon 90%+ of non-developers using Apple hardware today (iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc) could switch to Android, Surface, and Windows PC respectively without losing much in the way of capability - but they would lose a cohesive and well-thought-out user-experience, which is Apple’s moat.
I do batch the inserts into a large transaction, and usually optimize for the transaction to commit in approximately ~10s. Not sure if it is optimal, but I like to monitor it like that.

BRIN indexes actually work for some of the data types I'm working with! Thank you for pointing those out!
Some might. But Tim Cook seems not to, because his answer, "We do not retaliate or bully people", was unequivocal.
Many of the traditional oils do have observable effects, which is why they were selected and became traditions in the first place. They can have immediate and obvious effects on circulation, the sinuses, the bronchii, etc. Some may even have other medicinal aspects to manage inflammation.

However, these observable effects are often more about managing symptoms and perception than with having any protective or curative mechanism. This is where the you run into problems. A reduction in symptoms does not necessarily correlate well with a reduction in pathogens or other disease processes, so you might have the same (or worse) outcome as without treatment, or might put yourself into risky situations with a false sense of security...
All browsers on ios use the safari engine. Only thing chrome can do is sync your bookmarks.
To be fair, that's also how cars and houses tend to work
> If someone gets hurt using an Apple product it’s international news

You can replace pretty much everything in your car which are literally killing machines and yet everything seems to be doing ok why give Apple this special treatment?
Are they? How is "detains" and "delays" defined? It doesn't seem like requiring delivery of late-arriving mail on the same day is the intent of that law.
Here's one exaggerated incident: https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/blm-mob-beat-white-man-unconsc...

They exaggerate that the mob dragged a man out of his car, and they exaggerate that he was kicked in the head and rendered unconscious. In fact, they exaggerate so much that they had to take him into the ER. To me, it paints a completely misleading picture that in Portland you could be run off the road, dragged out of the car and beaten unconscious. Surely if reported properly, they'd notice there are thousands of people in Portland who weren't beaten senseless that night, so we'd better focus on that.
Same. Never before seen a thunderstorm where no precipitation hit the ground.

The heat doesn't feel so new to me. As a kid I was always watching for those 100F+ days with the fascination of hitting triple digits. I have 30+ years of seeing those.

The thunderstorm was crazy tho.
> And of course “any kind of document frame anywhere” was unbelievable at the time.

Couldn't Ashton-Tate's Framework do that kind of things too? I can't remember.
I don't know of an existing name, but I'll invent one right now that works: it's a "Scheinbug".

"Schein-" as a prefix in German means something that appears to be one thing but isn't what it appears to be. Depending on context it can be analogous to the English "sham", but the later has a more negative, manipulative connotation, whereas the German "Schein-" connotes a more neutral and complex confusion of reality and appearance.

It's pronounced exactly like the English "shine", so say "shine-bug".
The Falco Project (Cloud Native Runtime Security) Update from Last KubeCon
Ah, looks like it has -- last time I checked I thought you could only get one on lease. Honda's FCX Clarity is still limited production and lease-only.

But yes, the Mirai and the fueling stations are definitely subsidized, both in Japan and in California.

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/hydrogen-fueling-in...

https://cleanvehiclerebate.org/eng/eligible-vehicles

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/18/700877189/japan-is-betting-bi...
That's... not that much, is it? I'm trying to find a good mental model for water volume. Best I got is an olympic pool contains 500,000 gallons. So, around 1% of an olympic pool.

Or around 160 oil barrels worth.
All browsers on iOS use a Safari webview. iOS does not allow the installation of competing browser engines. So, no. It may be called chrome, it may look like chrome, but it is Safari, with all the limitations that implies (and a few extra limitations as a webview, just for good measure).

Apple does this on purpose to push people to use native apps, and then they lock down access to a market of 1 billion people to their whim of the day.

Edit: another poster pulled the trigger at the same time as me, will leave my comment for good measure.
How about Portland? https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/blm-mob-beat-white-man-unconsc...
You already have that problem: some apps only support android and some only support iOS.

You need to choose between not using the app, or buying a new phone and giving a developer you may not trust your credit card information
30 minutes north of san franscisco means you don't even have paved roads or cell phone service. I'm not sure why you think you would need to be in rural montana to plan some tall buildings.
Hence Dominic Cummings?
Aren’t companies like google[0] and nvidia[1] already doing this?

The paper’s point is that eventually we will reach computing power limits and then we will have to improve the deep learning algorithm’s efficiency to continue to improve. From the abstract:

> Continued progress in these applications will require dramatically more computationally-efficient methods, which will either have to come from changes to deep learning or from moving to other machine learning methods.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/tpu

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/v100/
Those old Roland sounds cut their teeth at a time of much change in the 80's and the birth of many styles that prevail today. They became cult sounds in themselves, same with many syths and even today some old syths are still in demand so much and so scarce that replica's have started to go mainstream with the likes of https://www.behringer.com/ showing how big a demand there is.

>Sometimes I longed for a more computer like interface.
As well as the TR707, had a Yamaha CX5M - poor persons DX5 synth. Probably one of the first dedicated computers for music making - consumer wise as not going to even count the Fairlight that was £50k+ back at the same time.

But was always fun when you can listen to a song, know what equipment is being used - and groan as you hear the same presents.

You can get external interfaces that you can map onto virtual kit. Sliders, knobs, buttons. Though an many external music keyboards with extra controls, so with some key binding - the pain can be removed.
they just aren't good enough. even on android, with google supposedly being the patron saint of PWA, native apps just offer a better experience.
I see your point, but surely it's not controversial that Epic very deliberately broke the rules in order to get its app removed from the App Store, right? Epic is probably just hoping that iPhone owners will take Epic's side and blame Apple for the removal (or even more likely, Epic only cares about the effects of the PR on the court case). I can't predict how every iPhone owner who plays Fortnite will react to this, but it seems like any slightly inquisitive person would look at the situation and think, hmm, it seems like Fortnite existed on the App Store for a long time, so what changed?
With environmental pollution there doesn't need to be any actual damage to sue.
A bitmap spider figures into a display-hack demo in Open Genera that I could never get working. I think it may be more related to that.
But shouldn't every friend in every possible state observe a single state that's consistent with their own internal state?

The friend only exists in many worlds from Winger's perspective, and only as long as their state has no causal effect on Wigner's own state.
Chrome for Android will now label ‘fast pages’ and may eventually rank higher
It's possible for one action to violate the terms in multiple ways. They probably mean the following two:

1) not giving Apple their 30%

2) publishing code without prior approval by Apple
Apple, with code-signing signalling, will actively be telling users Fortnite is a security danger. It is not the same as code signing, which would be vendor-agnostic and politically neutral. I would be surprised if the European Commission does trigger an inquiry into abuse of dominant position.
I work with a few! So may have to get our pod registered as endangered species, I could monetize it by selling sightseeing tours for web and backend devs to see what real engineers look like.
And then someone will mess up the repair and blame Apple for a malfunctioning device or demand they fix it for free.
Yep. They spent 2.5 months trying to do what Apple said, when it was all a lie and no matter what they did they weren't gonna be back in the store.

They could have shut down in a more orderly fashion with 2.5 more months of severance.
They are so nasty, that no one will trust they have good intentions. Whose fault is that I wonder.
Not the same thing. PEBKAC says the operator is the bug, not that the bug only exists in the mind of the operator.
You can setup wildcard DNS names or use `{STAR}.{localhost,local}` for local development. Just use a reverse proxy on `:80` that allows you to define wildcard subdomains like `container_name.{STAR}` or setup the reverse proxy to automatically take the subdomain and use that as the backend server name (should be possible in nginx).

HN uses * for formatting so it's been replaced with {STAR}
Like I get what you’re saying but there’s also lots of luxury designer brands. The competition in that space isn’t about the margin on individual items. Like the market thousand high-end bags, shoes, or even art is a whole other world. Like do you think a Rembrandt is overpriced because paint is only a few cents?

But that’s so different from the smartphone space. Like iPhones were really a status symbol like a decade ago but you can get one now at like every price point and flagship androids aren’t much cheaper. You have threads full of people on HN arguing that Apple is actually the budget pick if you can afford to frontload the cost. I’m typing this on a used iPhone X that cost less than $400.

Like have we all forgotten when Apple released FaceID and then Samsung responded with the lamest front camera picture match thing?

Like yes lock-in is a thing, lifestyle marketing is a thing, brand loyalty is a thing, and momentum is a thing, but that doesn’t explain how Apple is seemingly able to do it so much better than everyone else. Because we could name companies that have all of those but still aren’t Apple.
From my experience the only thing that ever worked is when the recruiter comes to you.
Jeffrey Skilling is out of prison and working on a blockchain energy venture with Lou Pai

Just check to make sure they arent holding California’s power for ransom pending payment to a random Bitcoin address
"There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain... And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."

Whenever Californians talk about whether I'm reminded of this Steinbeck quote.
GP claimed iOS was "free". Can't be both free, and the phone only costs its parts.

GP also said to cover cost of app store in the phone, despite only costing its parts.

I consider iOS to be one of the iPhone's parts. I don't understand why machinery engineered from metal is so different from that engineered from bits, that I must consider them two products instead of one. Metal, glass, silicon, bits: one PDA appliance.
Meditation is prolonged concentration on something. Perhaps what you practiced was exactly "thinking about nothing and keeping your mind blank"? That would be the opposite of meditation and could be harmful, I guess. There are very subtle objects used in meditation, like light or space, but it's definitely not nothing.
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (2018)
A small number of media owners control old media in Australia. There is a single national newspaper and most cities have a single daily. They are generally owned by the same person. That person flies in people at election time to aggressively campaign for the government of their choice. This only makes sense if there is some quid pro quo. I have no love for Facebook or Google but the Australian government does what it must to keep favour with media proprietors or risk toxic campaigns against them.
>Apple is making us pay 30% so we're going to charge you 30% more

You would have to charge $142.86 for something you otherwise could sell for $100 if it wasn't for Apple taking a 30 % cut. So ~43 % more, not 30 % more. Apple sure is milking iOS users for alot of money, without users knowing.
Paging Louis Rossmann for how this actually is just lip service and not an "expansion" of any rights at all for anyone but Apple
... Those seem like pretty tiny nitpicks in the context of the wider argument to me.

The central point of his book - that there was far more geographic luck involved in European dominance than is popularly understood - holds just fine with all those points you made.

Good points though.
> Wild claims related to electromagnetism

what follows is speculation, so you can grab your pitchforks if you want but it will be a hollow victory.

I've always been suspicious of the claim that EM fields have zero effect on human beings, especially near high-volts lines. It doesnt seem possible. Our bodies function based on electrical signals and many cellular mechanisms are mediated with ions.

do we have a list of all electrically-sensitive bodily processes? could we guess what would happen if their simultaneous activation changed by 5%? what about 45% or more? So much of the human body is not exhaustively understood in the general case, and certainly not in the individual case.

idk, i dont wanna go all tinfoil hat here. it just seems like circumstances are aligned for there to be large holes in our public understanding (accidentally or otherwise).

note: for whatever its worth, ive spent some time around the 8MW generators on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers[0].

[0]: https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/cvn-68.htm
A one day 10% off sale is a change in behavior due to no action taken by the user triggered remotely by the developer. Is a sale very close to malware?
Evergreen Short Story by Leo Tolstoy
>> We didn't even have a web version of the product because we believed the web was dead

Well he deserved what he's got...like all the people pumping up dictators because they are "good" for a short period of time just to find out later they are not so good anymore and they have no way to change that.
So now West Coast is coming at par with the developing world.
Okay. But I'm having a hard time connecting the dots between the way in which crop storage amplifies the agronomic output of a group, and the points you raise.

If you're just trying to point out that "Guns, Germs, and Steel" isn't an all inclusive guide to the rise of civilization, or that different people may have made different choices in their analysis, okay I get that too. Every book is just a single voice in the choir of a genre.

Is that what you're trying to say? That you didn't like the book?
I tested this just now on my Mac and “right-click -> Open” on an untrusted .app gave me the same warning message with no obvious way to force-open the app.
> If Epic was running their own platform, and 3rd parties didn’t want to abide by their rules, then Epic would give those 3rd parties the finger and tell them to F-off the same as Apple.

What exactly is your point here? If <entity> was in Apple's position, they would protect their interests exactly as Apple is. Thats why we need to regulate companies who are in Apple's position! The fact that its greed vs. greed is immaterial.
10-year old: 2 hours of tantrums and regressing, competition with his 2 year old who can be more insupportable, then 5 minutes to finish his worksheet to get 60 mins of TV. Need these kids back in school STAT!