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Hi everyone,
I made an iOS app for visualizing your WhatsApp chats. It's completely secure, all of your data stays in your phone. There is no server side so, no internet connection is needed.

I would be very happy if you contribute by downloading and trying it.
Wow, eyes on your butt saves your butt. I'm surprised that predators would not have figured this out and started ignoring them but apparently 100% survival rate. Definitely an improvement.

I wonder if you could make highly durable vinyl stick on eyes that would allow you to just apply them once a year. Put prism covers and you could make them blink as the cow moved like those cards that flip between two images based on the angle.
Would you be willing to give me some examples of such "ends"?
This take is absolutely insane. Competition has never hurt consumers. There is no downside to more app stores, only huge upsides in the reduced fees.
>> I'm sorry that my message came across as more adversarial than intended.

Thanks. I enjoyed our conversation.
Not beyond. Not becoming.

The beyond implies a spatial expanse in which one progresses. Becoming implies a temporal expanse in which one progresses. The cessation of these spatiotemporal limits is fundamental to that "state of being" (this phrase itself betrays that). In that sense memory itself creates that time-space substance, because it is through that, that it exists.

This is something that is very difficult to reconcile with, because this would also imply that cause and effect are non-objects. So then what is it that one "realizes"?
I think the key value of (our version of) democracy is the peaceful transition of power. For example from Clinton -> Bush -> Obama -> Trump. They all had very different views on what the country needed to do, but they all accepted that elections were how the future was decided and handed off power to someone they did not agree with.

In a monarchy or despotism, there is no transition of power by design. It is supposed to be difficult, because it is not wanted. So if you end up with the wrong choice it is very hard to correct.
Maybe there was unintentional curtailment of some sort, idk. There's still no announcement of stage 3 emergency (intentional curtailment).
You can create and distribute a game without using Unreal Engine or the Epic Store. You can't distribute a game on macOS and iOS without Apple's approval. False equivalence.
> a home is worth more than the wood that was used to build it

I agree with this part, but it doesn't address why, though. The house is worth more than its material costs because of labor costs.

> The role of money here is to balance supply and demand

I don't think the role of money is to balance supply and demand, it is to facilitate exchange between items of different exchange values. It is a tool that exists outside of capitalism.

> so the things that get done are the things that other people need to get done

I respectfully disagree here. I don't know where you live, but I guarantee you there's plenty of things that people need that need to get done that doesn't get done. I argue that in a capitalist system, what is most profitable gets done. In some cases, what gets done aligns with the needs of the people, but in many cases, the needs of the people are not met. I think it should be obvious that a capitalist system cannot distribute resources effectively if you look at this pandemic.

I agree that our governments are mishandling everything, but that doesn't have to be the case. A government has the most resources to determine how many homes get built... they just don't do it, because ultimately, it's not profitable.

Look at any city budget and see where most of the money is spent: it's spent on the police budget, not on things that need to get done for the people, like building homes, or providng healthcare, etc.

Here is a simple scenario to illustrate that extra money is not created. We are at a market, and you are selling wine to me, but sell it for more than the cost it took you to make it. I'm selling books, but also want to make a sell them for more than their cost tome, so I sell it to you for more than I paid for it. If everyone does this, then you can imagine all prices rising and falling together. If the extra money we received goes back into the market for other necessities, then we didn't really make a profit. Profit is created when money is removed from the system and accumulates and is hoarded.

I'm going to be logging off for now, but I've enjoyed this discussion.
Smelting on site and shipping plates doubles your train volume as you can stack 100 plates per slot vs 50 raw material.

Can make your train routes/efficiencies easier to manage.
U.S. vs. US
Or-tho-go-nal.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face does not stop your face from doing whatever it did to make you spite it.

Non sequitur. Orthogonal. Unrelated. Irrelevant.

You can be against google fucking you and the Australian government fucking you. These are not mutually exclusive.
To get any firearm in India, you need to prove immediate danger from other humans, plus average basic daily income is $2 or something, so firearms are basically for rich people with enough connections.
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Epic's store has been incredible for PC gaming. Amazing for developers and quite good for consumers too. Taking down steam is the best thing to happen this decade.
If the state could magically have enough battery capacity in every county to smooth out this curve, what scale of battery installation would that take?
That seems normal to me for Texas, though. Most population growth across TX, NM, AZ happened after the invention of air conditioning, precisely because it's uncomfortable there for half the year without it.
I went to your site and found a new app I’m excited to try [0] in about 7 seconds!

Banning you guys from the AppStore is Apple’s loss. I’m glad to have found you now though.

[0] https://appadvice.com/tvgame/app/epic-orchestra/1063781546
Don’t Commiserate with Your Team
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It's clear not enough is being invested in schools, in particular the science curriculum.
Along those lines, you are no longer allowed to browse or post anywhere outside of HN, since your keyboard is only authorized for HN browsing and posting. Those other web-sites are insecure and HN has decided that you can no longer visit other websites.

Furthermore, Walmart has placed restrictions on all keyboards purchased from their stores. All online purchases made using their keyboards will now funnel 30% of the payment to Walmart.

Thank you for your business and absolute trust in our secure business model that we operate for your benefit.
Not gonna sugarcoat it - this is weak. Companies don’t offer this solution that’s better because it’s “complex”.

This is like when engineers say something is going to take a long time because “there’s a lot of moving parts”.

The reality, IMO, is that employees do not have a seat at the table when it comes to negotiating ownership shares. And, predictably, they end up with the worst part of the deal.
> Unless you're climbing a transmitter tower and exposing your womb to a focused microwave beam at a very close range for a substantial period, then the heating effect probably isn't going to be doing good things.

That's exactly what I'd expect from a lying tool of the Establishment.
Unreal Engine isn’t a shared iOS component. Apple doesn’t care about signatures on individual lib/so files: only the signature on the published app package. When you make an app or a game using an existing engine then only you become responsible for it.

A ragtag band of devs all banned-for-life from Apple’s stores could put together a new app-engine or game-engine that other devs use as the basis for their app and provided that those apps don’t break the rules about undocumented APIs or malware (and no-one in Apple’s higher-ups gets suspicious...) then those apps will appear. I don’t believe Apple has any way to automatically ban or delete all apps that use the same third-party libraries by using their macOS Notary system or iOS Certificate revocation system - they’d have to inspect every published app-package individually (granted, this would be automated, but you know what I mean).
Thank you, I am going to look into this.

It is very annoying that there is no app from apple like remote desktop. I think we might move away from iPads because of this.
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I start to see tweets attributing the CA power outages to increased degree of renewable energies that are "inherently unreliable"(solar, wind), on the supply side of the equation. And of course the tweets are very politically charged, making it hard to judge how true those claims are. Anybody has more insights on these claims?
I'm not at all enthused about Epic being one of those stores, but being able to download from Steam sure would be nice.

If you were trying to remove the monopoly, I'd think you should start there, and then expand to other people who can prove they have their shit together. Epic let someone else use my email address to sign up for an account (and they only allow one account per email). That is serious amateur-hour territory. When they have figured out how to tie their own shoes we can talk about whether they should be in the running.
I think commissions are the smallest part of the problem. The problem is that you are buying what seems like a general computing platform, but then you will be prevented from using apps that Apple doesn't find helpful to their business.

Not allowing another in-app payment solution is just one of the many things that they are preventing.
The denial of the self or "selfish desires" is the common thread here.
I can't imagine what makes someone object to moving cables underground.
How has dropping and recreating indexes been hit or miss? I've been thinking about doing exactly that
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014616729420300...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1021369327584

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0261927X9514300...

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/11808412/personality_a...

This was like, five minutes on google scholar. I'm not going to pretend it's a slam dunk "here's a paper from the esteemed Harvard Professor of Lying-is-Awesome, presenting the grand unified theory of 'deceptiveness and social skills are overlapping traits'," but it's pretty much the null hypothesis.
How can Google Meet improve? Bring notes
Geographical Amusement: The rise of the cartographic board game
Sounds like NYC now as well. All the hard parts without the positive things that made living there worth it.
If they manage to land their store on iOS, expect them to do the same anti-competitive things they did in the PC market... paying studios to exclusively put their games on the Epic Store only. Even games fund raised by communities, and games already announced to be launching on other platforms.

I don't see that as much of a win.
Epic should revoke Apple’s access to unreal engine ;)
I think that'd be ideal.

1. You can submit software anonymously, or with a free account, or with a paid account.

2. Apple can refuse notarization for the usual reasons they do now.

3. Apple can, in the future, revoke notarization and notify you.

3a. If you choose to submit anonymously, notification is impossible.

3b. If you choose to submit with a free developer account, they'll notify you of revocation and why.

3c. If you choose to submit with a paid developer account, they'll allow you to contest the revocation.
I was using Ctrl-F in Chrome for the words on the training data (Shakespeare texts).

With Teansformer models it's quite easy to print out top Query-Key pairs to debug what happened, but that was not my intention.
If you’re a seemingly unstoppable corporate juggernaut, you’ll make enemies who think (rightly or wrongly) that your business practices are unfair, and they may successfully sue you using the laws intended to stop huge companies from engaging in unfair business practices.

I’m not sure what your point is here. That antitrust litigation is futile or counterproductive? The threat of it seems to be having positive effects already, looking at the front page of HN: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/apple-expands-its-independ...
> A C implementation

You mean CPU implementation. C language isn't the culprit here, and low-level parts of ML frameworks are normally written in C or C++ as well and compiled with nvcc or equivalent.
You pay for energy, not power. The simple formula for energy is power x time. This is what "kWh" means... 1 kilo-Watt used for one hour.

When calculating total energy utilization for a period of time during which power varies (your TV is turned on and off, air conditioner cycles, etc.) the calculation effectively entails the integral of power plotted against time. Another way to put it is that the energy is the area under that curve.
Ask HN: When in the key of F-Major would you use C# or Db in notation?
Yes, this exactly. I hope everyone reads this.
Autonomous vehicles. It’s a lame answer but hear me out. When you look at many of the major developments in human history many of them have been about connecting things. Often times connecting people but sometimes goods, if you look at containerization (not docker, real containers on ships). Autonomous vehicles just open up a massive new wave of being able to connect people to people, things to people, and things to things on a scale and speed that is not possible today. It will likely change all infrastructure around us, and therefore may be the thing that “replaces” the mobile phone. Not saying all interactions will happen in person but communication will change to something we might be able to imagine in this moment.
In Postgres, there is a data type ltree[0] which can materialize the full path in a DAG and help do relatively complex searches. Tree coordinates are typically stable, so it's easier and faster to recalculate the path on writes vs reads. We use parent_id + ltree to do search hundreds of thousands of relationships in milliseconds.

ltree is no match in power to CTEs, but it is perfect for a simple domain like the one used in the article.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ltree.html
I will only offer that finding content on Apple TV now that everyone has the ability to not only sell content but resell content (eg, HBO on Prime), it's gotten to the point where we sometimes give up on finding a particular movie or TV show and do something else.

I'd like other stores on iOS too, but there's a qualitative difference between 1, 3, and 6 vendors that doesn't necessarily make 6 better than 1. In fact 6 is probably default worse than 1, and requires active management and cooperation to make it behave.
Not true. The main thing that happens is that methane reacts with hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere to produce water, formaldehyde, and ozone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane#Removal_pr...
It's technically possible yes, but Epic's position is much much worse than that. They won't be able to legally build any app because the SDK is proprietary and only available to registered developers.
I like this for several reasons more than subways.

1.) Obviously because of spatial awareness, sightseeing.
(less important nowadays because of smombieness)

2.) Separation from other traffic.

There is almost the same system in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiba_Urban_Monorail

There are some videos on youtube of both systems, from drivers view, and on ground. What made me sad when watching them was they felt relatively loud because of the resonance body the "carrier" makes. But I think that could be managed.
Maybe it even was an artifact of the video. Don't know. Has to be experienced IRL. I know only the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, and that felt acceptable at the times.

Ultimately something like this should be able to run 24/7 without disturbing any residents at night, windows open.
Buddhism while not worshipping Gods, does not deny their existence, or rather a more familiar phrase would be deny the existence of "higher beings".

So it is neither atheistic nor theistic.
In my experience being clear is always enough here, being rude is not needed.
It’s funny that every company that goes against Apple is the underdog, including Aramco (if they ever did, Ha!).
> There are more than two platforms out there

Such as? If I'm making a mobile game, what other phones can I realistically target other than Android and iPhone? You don't really think that the Librem 5 is a real competitor right now in this space, do you?

> because mere quantity of stuff out there is never a justification for taking it over

All of US antitrust law is based on the idea that the quantity of providers in a market matters. If you're arguing that we should get rid of antitrust entirely, fine. But be upfront about that, that's not a mainstream position to take.

> no monopoly exists without a government acting as a gatekeeper

I'm not going to derail things too much here, but I do have at least a few Libertarian bones inside of me. To the extent that I am sympathetic to your argument here, I would question why you think that Apple is different.

Apple's dominant market position exists in no small part based on its exploitation of copyright, the DMCA, import laws, and heavy lawsuits over trademark and cross-compatible app runtimes, all of which only work because of artificial government intervention into the market.

If you want to go full Libertarian, I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea, but then I'm also going to go full Libertarian and ask what your views are on abolishing copyright. Apple might not have such a stranglehold over the market if it was legal for other US companies to build iPhone emulators, hackintoshes, to distribute jailbreaks, and to build their own compatible phones that could run both iOS apps and apps from other markets.

If we're all OK with making that stuff legal, then I'm OK with dropping antitrust. If we're not OK with making that stuff legal, then I'm keeping antitrust. I'm OK with either having government regulation or not having it, but no halvsies.
It's relatively safe to do so for a one-time bulk load, especially if you have a way to verify consistency what you've loaded for integrity reasons (foreign keys, for example, might be a single query and a join). If it's not a one-time load, then you are right, it's dreadful.

If, for example, you get a 3-5x speedup without checks (not unheard of), you can do it twice, verify the copies are the same, and get a 2x speedup.
I agree you with this one, it's not one way is better than the other. Personally I care about the design or portability much more than the repairability; I'm totally fine with them swap the whole logic board to repair one tiny chip, or even give me a new one instead; this "reflect my budget and concerns".

The "right to repair" act seems will hurt consumers like me, which prefer a slimmer design than if it's repairable or not. How much repair does it want to push? Repair individual CPU cores?

The free market lets companies make stuff for their targeted consumer groups, which is great. Everyone has a choice, based on individual "budget and concerns".
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Have you checked out numba?
You can use regular Python for loops and numpy calls and it will compile it. Instead of numpy vectorization mess.
It is explained in Steve Jobs book. Steve wanted a 30% share on all deals where he has distribution.

The challenge was to massage the numbers of the deal so he could see his 30% and approve it.

Also the 30% is often the budget for the Sales and Marketing operation in a typical organization.
I prefer "unsatisfactoriness" rather than "suffering".

"The word is commonly explained as a derivation from Aryan terminology for an axle hole, referring to an axle hole which is not in the center and leads to a bumpy, uncomfortable ride."
Suffering harm is how one sues and wins, yes. Anyone can sue for anything and quickly lose, but to have any hope of winning, you must be harmed.
TBH, the console makers are probably thinking 'shit, Apple is going to end up ruining it for all of us.'

Not that it matters, but the Amazon app store has the worst policies IME.
"Oh you can install the software, you just have to do a handstand and say 'I love Apple' in front of your computer, no biggie"
California declared a Stage 2 Emergency at 15:30 PDT today which begins curtailment of interruptible loads, a less drastic form of load shedding. A Stage 3 Emergency begins to affect firm load using rotating outages.
Thinkpad customers want a laptop with a 16:10 screen. Has Lenovo given it to them? No. Will they go and buy a Macbook with a 16:10 screen? No. So Lenovo can screw them ad infinitum.
This isn't exactly addressing my point. Never did I say that 'All tests are useless'. Refer to my answers here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24183844
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I suppose one way to counteract this is for apple to license app stores and they have to have the same standards as apples store. I have no desire to have low quality stores on my phone, thats why I like the iPhone - I don't have to worry about all the nonsense android phone owners do.
Ugh. Continued fallout from terrible reporting on a non-scientific study that wasn’t even looking at the issue in question.
According to the law, the best course of action is not to break the law to prove you don't like the law. While the Terms of Service are not the law, you agree to follow them when signing up and the terms didn't change after Epic signed up.

Practically, you may be correct that this is the most expedient way to try to fix the problem but you can get burned as Epic has in the short term with a sharp drop in revenue as Apple & Google have both booted them and may refuse to work with them in the future.
East of Eden, the most convincing account of what if feels like to have lived in Northern/Central California, even if just for the description of the land. For those who haven't read it, please do. It's a tale that will never really leave you.
I said the same thing in another thread. It's all about money.

But even though is all about money, a legislation change is still necessary. As long as the result of this benefits the society, who's pushing it shouldn't matter that much.

At the end of the day, antitrust process are frequently started by people with a lot of money and power to catch people with more money and power. That's the game.
There will be a dirt pile in their morning landscape view from the east wing of their estate.