skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tokyo absolutely took advantage of that clean slate, but San Francisco's issues don't seem to be related to physical infrastructure.
Tesla shares rally for no reason
> [article] provide "uneven" service

I guess that they can't legally claim it's inferior, because of how dreadful their service is in comparison to Rossmann. Apple wants to level the playing field to the bare minimum, i.e. their official repair quality standards.
I am going to try to use "unintentional curtailment" in a future post-mortem report.
For those of you currently looking for a job: you have my sincerest pity. A few months ago, I too was job searching and it was an absolute nightmare.

Just one example from many: A while back, one of the few people who responded to my application was a "sales" job. The more experienced among you will already know where I'm going with this.

I looked at their website and the warning lights were going off in my head. What I was actually supposed to be doing there was never really described. Luckily, whoever designed the website and related marketing materials was kind enough to fill all the unused space with politician grade word salad non-information. This was all peppered with appeals to greed and images of high ranking executives enjoying themselves (THIS COULD BE YOU!!!).

I then checked their reviews from previous employees and it was universally panned. One previous employee described it as a cult.

For once, my cowardice and willingness to abort paid off. I cancelled by phone ON THE MORNING OF MY INTERVIEW while in bed. I later read a forum thread on "multilevel marketing" schemes and instantly felt the life being breathed back into me. I had just dodged a major bullet.

The moral of the story is: If something seems off, trust your gut! There's plenty of large power structures designed solely to fuck with you. This goes double for if you're young and inexperienced and don't really know the lay of the land.
Redirecting user payment info is totally a data/privacy breach.
Analysis – Why does Google want to be your bank?
I didnt see anything in the article about how they handle privacy when you're actually using the toilets. How will they accomplish this part?
Wait, do we think the situation with Visa/MasterCard is good?

I'm discovering a number of people here who see the world very differently than me. I would have taken it as a given that most people would agree that it would be healthy for the US market overall if we shook up the payment industry and got some new options.

A lot of Visa/Mastercard's terms for businesses are really bad. There are entire industries that are being pushed out of the market right now. Not to mention that these cards come with a tremendous amount of user tracking that's basically impossible to opt out of if you want to buy anything online.

That's why people are throwing everything at the wall from Bitcoin to GNU Taler trying desperately to find any kind of Open alternative that might work for online micropayments.
Anyone can make a B2C reader app, but those reader-apps must have built-in self-service sign-up, including accepting payment through Apple. There is no way around that unless you offer a free tier and never prompt your users to upgrade or tell them that they can upgrade through their web-browser. Logically this extends to free-trials-without-payment-details because when the free trial ends what are you supposed to display in the app?

Netflix, Kindle and others are exempted from the self-service sign-up requirement because Apple knows they can’t win a PR fight against them. Spotify has self-service sign-up in the app, but that’s because they’ve always had a free tier, where’s there’s no free/gratis membership tier for Netflix or Kindle.

If you try it yourself right now Apple will require you to have a self-service signup flow in your app, which is only viable if you have a free tier - otherwise you’ll have to pay the 30% rent or let your iOS users use your service for free indefinitely because you can’t put up a “your free trial has ended” message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environm...

Cost billions; more than the Manhattan project. Obsolete soon after deployment due to ICBMs.

(Taking your "war time" to include cold war time)
As part of selling on Apple's app store, you agree to follow the ToS. The ToS are very clear that you don't set up your own marketplace inside your app where Apple doesn't get a cut. This reaction (terminating Epic's account) was eminently foreseeable and completely justified. You do not fuck with Apple's cut. Don't like it, don't sell on the app store.

Epic thought they were big enough and valuable enough that they could bully their way through ToS violations. All the hip thinkpieces were saying that no matter what happens here Epic comes out on top, because Apple has everything to lose and blah blah.

Turns out nope, Epic's customers do need the app store after all, so Apple has the leverage here after all.
> The core of nihilism is that since the indifferent universe is without meaning humans have to give it meaning.

I'm not that familiar with nihilism, but I'm rather surprised that "humans have to give it meaning" is part of the core. That's somewhat non-obvious to me; intuitively I would have expected nihilists to believe that meaning cannot exist.

Can you point me toward some sources that say nihilists actually believe that humans are capable of creating meaning?
Those aren't general purpose devices, but also they've got a smaller userbase. iPhones and iPads have sold more than two billion devices. All the consoles combined probably do not come close. Especially in an anti-trust lawsuit, a bigger target is easier.
I would just expect Google to use obsolete or different algorithms for search results for Australia.
They may be the same pitch but they are not the same note. A C# in F is a raised fifth, Db is a lowered 6th. Which one you use depends on the context/function of the pitch.
Tiny hashing module that uses the native crypto API in Node.js and the browser
That sounds like a gigantic win for developers to me.
> why the hell should Apple prevent someone from putting a counterfeit battery/screen/whatever inside of it?

You can definitely do whatever you want to the machine. And the audit prevents my parents got scammed by those individual shops. eg. Paid the price for a genius battery but got a counterfeit from China.
E.g in Kotlin:
https://arrow-kt.io/docs/0.10/optics/lens/
> Syphilis may have a new world origin.

Smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, whooping cough are all way scarier than syphilis.

> The most productive crop is the potato,

The thesis of Guns, Germs, and Steel was Europe's east-west orientation allowed varieties domesticated in one place to easily grow in another. If different varieties of potatoes grow differently at different latitudes (I don't know, I'm not an expert), then it doesn't really matter how productive a crop the potato is. You may also be basing this on more modern potato varieties.

> The Inca farmed guinea pigs.

Guinea pigs are pretty small. The Inca didn't have horses, only llamas. Horses were militarily very important. Look at how much trouble the Plains Indians gave the US government, relative to their numbers. They only acquired horses after Europeans came to the New World and adapted their culture and ways around them very rapidly.

> The Mapuche did not have guns, germs or steel yet, they defeated the Spanish.

After initially being defeated, acquiring guns, steel, and horses from the Spanish and then rebelling against them.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arauco_War#Campaigns_of_Caupol...
Sure, but if the community got sick of Epic's walled fortnite garden, they can play other games. Could be WoW, could be Call of Duty, could be Pubg, could be the latest Mario. It doesn't really matter. Fortnite competes for your time with all other games, and the main thing keeping people there, besides basic enjoyment of the game, is that a lot of people play with their friends. And not many people will say that certain in app purchases are essential item (unlike, say, having an email app on your phone).

iOS on the other hand has a single serious competitor, Android, and if you have an iPhone you can't install Android on it when you get mad at Apple - you need a whole new phone. From a developer's perspective, you would miss out on all the iPhone users if you ship and Android app and not an iOS one. In that sense, Apple has significant monopoly-like power over the app market; solidified by the fact that you can't just install Google play store and start downloading Android apps on your iPhone if you get fed up with Apple' App store. The switching costs are too high for most users to consider it, except when buying a new phone.

A lot of this comes down to what a meaningful market is. E.g. Border's and Barnes and Noble learned the hard way that they were in the same market as online book selling - you couldn't usefully look at their book store models and ignore Amazon in the last ~decade.
You might have an achievement service. It watches for logins and grants a user an achievement after logging in for N consecutive days. Your authentication code need not know that an achievement service exists.
“The design relies on a new smartglass technology that turns the walls opaque when the door is locked.”
Yeah, I got a pretty huge power bill last month and was trying to calculate my rate to figure out how much I could save where. Doing this is actually pretty confusing with the bill you get.

Tier 1 from SCE for us is $.106/kwh. Tier 2 is $.165/kwh.

Plus:

1. CCA surcharge (whatever that means) is $.0224/kwh for PCIA (whatever that is)

2. CCA surcharge is $.00580/kwh for DWR bond (whatever DWR is)

3. CCA surcharge is $.00089/kwh for CTC (whatever that is)

4. CPA generation charges is $.089/kwh

So tier 2 rate is actually 0.165 + .0224 + .0058 + .00089 + .089 = $.283/kwh, tier 1 rate comes out to $.224/kwh.

The breakdown is useful, I guess, so you kinda know where the money is going. But it's not useful if you're looking for how much you can save on your bill when looking into energy use habits.
> The design relies on a new smartglass technology that turns the walls opaque when the door is locked.

Which is pretty much exactly what I expected when I heard the words "transparent public toilets."
Love this product would love to how you created if that’s okay
Welcome to the human experience.
I think Lucasfilm found out how much a counterforce there is to building things. Also a community center...
Thank you for answering.

Maddening! Let me explain: I'm making a program that pulls a midi file in and then displays a score, and apparently there is no solid rule that dictates that you should use either the one or the other and the context that might give a resolution may not even be there yet when you have to decide (because midi data can stream).
Yep. They give you $15,000 fueling credit for 3 years but this is definitely a forward deposit for building out infrastructure. I am not the most scientific person but I don't like Elon Musk's history and that he didn't address the science properly. Elon Musk bought Tesla and scrubbed the founder's name because it makes it better for storytelling purposes. When mentioned fuel cell vehicles, he called it Fool Cells and wrongly brought up a 2 step process. Theatrics and logically true but wrongly used. I am familiar with these techniques used by bullshitters.
According to the court filing, Apple is denying Epic access to any development tools, software betas, APIs and the like. Epic will not be able to keep Unreal Engine up to date. Including on MacOS.

The end result will be that Unreal Engine, and all applications developed with it will be dead in the water on MacOS/iOS/iPadOS.

From the the legal filing:

>... when Epic sued Apple to break its monopoly on app stores and in-app payments, Apple retaliated ferociously. It told Epic that by August 28, Apple will cut off Epic’s access to all development tools necessary to create software for Apple’s platforms—including for the Unreal Engine Epic offers to third-party developers, which Apple has never claimed violated any Apple policy. Not content simply to remove Fortnite from the App Store, Apple is attacking Epic’s entire business in unrelated areas.

and...

>Apple stated that unless Epic capitulates, Apple will also block “[e]ngineering efforts to improve hardware and software performance of Unreal Engine on Mac and iOS hardware [and] optimize Unreal Engine for the Mac for creative workflows”.

PDF link: https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327...
There's a good number of houses and apartments in the SCV with absolutely terrible insulation. The AC is the only thing keeping the interior moderately comfortable in 90°+ heat. If the thermostat is set to 80° The house will be significantly hotter than that.
Capitalism Cancels the Passions
It states in the article that they will turn opaque when occupied.
> Do they have the right to block the road while doing so? For hours?

Phrasing it as "blocking the road" is dragging in a bunch of assumptions. Another way of looking at it is that the protestors are using the road to the exclusion of others, in the same way that a parade or even rush hour traffic does. This is a judgment call, but given that protests aren't terribly common, I think the large group of people doing work to air their grievances deserves the benefit of the doubt. Remember, the entire point of a protest is to express outrage in a way that may be uncomfortable for everyone else.

> Eventually the police say that it's enough. They either order the crowd to disperse, or try to arrest someone. The crowd, being by this time mostly troublemakers, won't disperse peacefully and won't accept having one of their members arrested without going the rounds with the cops

This is the crux of the problem - the police asserting that they have the right to say "that's enough", declare a protest over, and then commit violence against anyone in the area. The dynamic is accelerated since the protest is explicitly against the police.

The police need to either stick to arresting specific people committing crimes, or withdraw and accept that their authority has become overwhelmed in an area. Escalating the lawlessness by committing violence against the entire group is unacceptable in a society based around individual freedom.
Thank you for answering,

Ok, so let's say in combination with A would you use C# or Db? And more importantly, why?
Not the person you replied to but there’s many different ends that people aim for via meditation- out of body experiences, building mental fortitude and discipline, expanded awareness, ego-death, overcoming trauma, etc
People will be arguing that "true self driving is impossible" for decades after we've all been already happily riding around in cars without steering wheels.

Level 4 self-driving with remote assistance will allow "driverless" cars in the next decade. Over time, the cars will need to phone home less and less. It's possible that even in 100 years, there will still be one single remote assistance center in operation for the 1 in a million situation that the computer still can't handle.

By the time that last remote assistance center closes, nobody will even care about debating whether self-driving cars are bullshit or not.
From wikipedia, it was a waypoint between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, then the railroad came and used it as a stop and the city built up around it. Then they legalized casinos and the mob took over.
R.Buckminster Fuller was an interesting character. I ran across this youtube video not long ago and it kind of blew my mind not having any knowledge of him beyond a vague link to the geodesic dome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOvE-ReX2g
There you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRjVvccQVM
Since when? You cannot side load apps onto modern consoles, to the extent of manufactures like even Nintendo releasing updated hardware revisions to block homebrew exploits.
Reinventing string diagrams and other notation for symmetric monoidal categories.

Graphicallinearalgebra.net is a good resource.
Interesting. My (Sunnyvale, CA) city council is extremely corrupt. I'm not sure I'll know what to look for, though.
GP.

Seeing your response here has me appreciating your position in a way I didn’t above - given the circumstances and that you ultimately had to lay off your people I’m sorry for any offence caused. This must have been a rough time to work through.

The point I was making, and which I think is valid in any case, is that it’s simply not safe to build a business that’s reliant upon the whims of another company that has shown time and again that it’s policies will change with the wind.

Also, the web is still a wonderful platform with a bright future. Not least as PWAs aren’t subject to 30% taxes and subjective reviews!
How many solar panels and grid storage batteries would you need to support a population of 39 million people running their air conditioners constantly during a heat wave for a week?

How much would all that equipment cost to buy and to maintain?

That's what's holding us up.
I’ll just repost what the top comment said. But I see it as really disingenuous to try to put what you are trying to do, in the same category as Basecamp/Hey, whose side I completely support.

Here's the thing: why should anyone trust that you will actually honor this 3-day money back guarantee, or that even if you honor it now that you will continue to honor it in the future? Part of the benefit of the App Store payment system is that it puts the user in control of their trials and subscriptions and lets them easily manage, cancel, and request refunds in a way that is guaranteed. But if your refund form magically disappeared one day, no one would have any recourse against that.
I don't run my AC. It regularly gets up to 85-88F. With air flow from fans and dressing light, there's no reason most people cannot be comfortable.

I think that people who run their AC like they do are selfish and do not understand the impact that their everyday actions have on the world.

(I really don't run my AC. I do think people are overly dependent on it. The number of people I know who have their home cooler in the summer than the winter indicates many people really just do it because they can.

But also I'm not a judgey asshole, so I don't moralize about it to people)
Damn, the salesman did say I was taking an awful risk not getting the MonsterCable(tm) Super Extra ULTRA Extra Extreme SD+ card but I wasn't prepared for the extra $129.99 it cost over my SanDisk.
1) I worked at a game company 2011: kicked out of facebook (quizzes restrictions were added to the toss)

2) I worked at a mobile ads company 2013: kicked out of apple store

3) I worked at a mobile hosting company for small shops 2015: salons, restaurants, etc: kicked out of apple store

4) I worked at a mobile social network company (2017): kicked out of apple store.

5) I built an app where people can promote their github projects (2017): account suspended by github

6) Built another app to help locate doctors: blacklisted by google
Recently we had a suspect run through the yard. It was terrifying and had I not been hanging out on the back room I would not have been able to lock the door before he got in. The initial tip off that something was off was the CHP plane flying in circles above.

Now when I hear the aircraft above us I instantly check its pattern and lock all the doors.
Vivisecting PowerPC
But which version do you run? The only version I would consider currently is the Enterprise version of Windows 10.
You're nuts if you think 5.2% is reasonable. Let's say for simplicity that's 1% per year for 5 years, if you chose VTSAX instead with an expense ratio of 0.04% (yes that's right) you're looking at total fees over 5 years of 0.2% versus 5%

Compound that 30 years out, you would loose hundreds of thousands of dollars for a pretty UI. Forget that, take a day and go setup a Bogleheads [1] portfolio.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio
Kanye West qualifies as presidential candidate in Utah
>The competing app store is the Play Store.

Not when they're different markets. Even EU's antitrust case against Google found that Google "dominant in the markets for [...] app stores for the Android mobile operating system." Which means Apple is the same for iOS app stores.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...
Pretty sure you can buy from Steam on the iOS app - Steam just has a revenue-sharing agreement with Apple.

which is specifically the part that got Epic in trouble, they don't want to share revenue with Apple, and what's more they want to charge other developers a fee for the use of Epic's app store.

the thought that Apple was just going to let this hilarious ToS breach lay was all wrong, absolutely not
Awesome explanation, thanks! Kinda like dual-cavity injection molds I guess
Not by 9% though. It's 9% of total, not peak load.
I got lost when the author explained zero and one.

Some folks just can't teach. Like, at all.

I write software daily, and I have for 24 years. I design my own CPUs and play with logic gates in FPGAs all the time.

I understand this stuff.

The author of this article lost me when explaining zero and one...
SVP isn't weighed down with debt from {the Erin Brockavitch lawsuit, the San Bruno gas explosion, the Paradise fire} incidents (among other, less infamous ones).

More likely, though, is that smaller and newer utilities are likely to be more nimble than the big behemoth that has lots of tech debt and internal and external bureaucracy.
How to use Azure Durable Entities to see who’s the strongest Avenger
Rumblings I heard had to do with too-aggressively retiring traditional power plants in favor of renewables, resulting in a lack of adequate baseload power.

But I have looked into it exactly zero.
We also see government “movements” against them Post Office, voting, the right to have encrypted messages, net neutrality, citizens being able to film police misconduct, etc.

So am I suppose to trust the government?
The word you're looking for is: exaggerate
Pretty brave of them considering some of the pieces were not acquired peacefully.
But why isn’t it as simply as telling either party to not use the other’s services if they don’t like the terms of said service?

I guess I’m not convinced that the App Store that Apple built for a some phones constitutes as a public service that every person on earth has the right to develop for.
Noteworthy: Frege developed the first "visual" (2-dimensional) way of doing logic with his Concept Script[1]. Linear logic also uses a similar "tree-like" structure for proofs[2].

I was going to also mention Alligator Eggs, but that already made it in the post :)

[1] https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~snburris/htdocs/scav/frege/fr...

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-linear/
Paragraph 8:
> The design relies on a new smartglass technology that turns the walls opaque when the door is locked. “At night, they light up the parks like a beautiful lantern,” according to The Nippon Foundation.
This is only true of products with substitutes. The extreme example being commodities.

Pretty much any luxury brand has high product margins, but certainly not for lack of competition.
My AC stopped working. In my spare time, I learned a new trade and replaced all my ductwork, the air handler, and the compressor unit with a new modern VRF system and am presently enjoying my air-conditioned home in this bay area heat wave.

Point being, you're asking the wrong guy.

Edit: I see you wrote "car's AC". My answer is pretty much the same.