skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an assertion that there isn't a unique global maximum for all needs, as slight variations in how important each part of the tradoff is for you will determine whether A or B is better; and the only reasonable answer to "what's the best X" is "it depends".

However, I would also assert that for many somewhat mature technologies the value of determining the global maximum for your particular needs does not outweigh the effort required to do determine what it is - in general, a reasonable local maximum will be almost as good as the global maximum; you want satisficing instead of optimizing.
The issue is time of day. Everything is fine while the sun is still up. Once the sun starts setting and the ~10GW of solar power California has goes away things get challenging.
> it is relatively easy to build another MMORPG competitor.

Oh no it isn't. There are very few successful (and even fewer wildly successful) MMORPGs and countless failed attempts.

Games are not really fungible. It's not like I'm going to go out of Fortnite to buy items in WoW instead and treat them as the same. They are two completely different markets.

> The bottom line is that Fortnight can have practical competition (that for example offer 3rd party plugins or lower prices)

No, unless things change, you need to use the Epic store.
For grizzly bear attacks, bear mace is more effective than guns. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/spray-more-effective-than...
Well, they're not entirely wrong about the 5G. I understand many in this forum won't agree with me. From https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no...

> We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe

> The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified RFR as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" in 2011. Last year, a $30 million study conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) found “clear evidence” that two years of exposure to cell phone RFR increased cancer in male rats and damaged DNA in rats and mice of both sexes. The Ramazzini Institute in Italy replicated the key finding of the NTP using a different carrier frequency and much weaker exposure to cell phone radiation over the life of the rats.

> Since 5G is a new technology, there is no research on health effects, so we are “flying blind” to quote a U.S. senator. However, we have considerable evidence about the harmful effects of 2G and 3G. Little is known the effects of exposure to 4G, a 10-year-old technology, because governments have been remiss in funding this research. Meanwhile, we are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors in tumor registries, which may be at least partially attributable to the proliferation of cell phone radiation. These increases are consistent with results from case-control studies of tumor risk in heavy cell phone users.

About the author:

> Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD, is director of the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been translating and disseminating the research on wireless radiation health effects since 2009 after he and his colleagues published a review paper that found long-term cell phone users were at greater risk of brain tumors. His Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website has had more than two million page views since 2013. He is an unpaid advisor to the International EMF Scientist Appeal and Physicians for Safe Technology.
I’m not aware of that ever happening though - and the workaround is just to get another certificate from another CA vendor.

I have code-signing certificates myself: the verification process did not fill me with confidence that the system is trustworthy - GlobalSign had me email them details of my DUNS/ UBI / business registration and a notarised copy of my driving license and checked that my name matched, and that was it. I could easily fraudulently obtain a code-signing certificate with a fake ID matching the name and state of some other vendor I just took a disliking to.

(I recognise that this system’s adding of barriers-to-entry does eliminate large numbers of opportunistic malware and provide a means to quickly disable installation and execution of revoked certificates - so I’m not calling for the system to be torn down!).
They are also being sued by Epic. Would you keep doing business with a company suing you?
The decisions should be transparent and subject to review and appeal by an independent board. Zoom should be free to appeal Apple's decision to the board, yes.

Checks and balances are not a new concept.
Sorry for your illness, and I wish the best for your family!
> But I fail to see why you (or Apple) should be in a position to tell other users what they can install or not.

Because it's their platform, they created it, they grew it, they paid for its development out of their pocket, and they offered it as a unique market proposition that satisfies millions of users around the world. Apple doesn't force anyone into their platform, everyone involved are there voluntarily and solely because they know that it's beneficial for them to be on the platform.
This is a pretty broad brush. It puts a lot of installable desktop or mobile apps into that bucket due to things like code push. And of course every web app falls in this territory.
I like how clear, and easy it is to try it out. Big "DOODLE NOW" button right in the middle of the landing page. In two clicks I've already created a (tiny) dungeon.
Please don't forget about BrandonM's follow up comment though!

I've seen the thread linked as a 'tech people don't appreciate simplicity' but he actually acknowledges Dropbox could be very useful and wishes success.

The other criticisms were also very valid at the time, and were acted upon.
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Why not build a filesystem API without the need for importing first, so you can do queries on the file system?
More like, you have to pay $100/yr to be a Bleach Safety Expert, which allows you to handle bleach. Actually come to think of it, don't we have the same thing, but for cars?
That is Elon's talking point. He isn't a technical person. He bought Tesla and scrubbed the founder's name for business storytelling purposes. So natural gas produces hydrogen, this hydrogen is stored in a tank, and then converted to electric when it is used. There is no 2 step process but Elon dismissed this technology for this reason. I don't trust this guy. There is nothing he knows that the Japanese carmakers don't. I am only suspicious that the Model 3 is cheaper than the Mirai. It might be a short term play that I don't fully understand in the same way I don't understand have Citadel and Virtu make money from buying trades. However, I think they are up to no good.
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I'm arguing that Developer ID should be entirely separate from the App Store. That they involve the same Apple developer accounts and programs is merely a matter of convenience, but until now we never had the worry that App Store disputes would lead to problems with Mac software distribution outside the App Store. It's clear now that they should be entirely separate developer programs.

If Apple wants to suspend someone's App Store developer account, fine. But you should be able to distribute outside the App Store regardless.

The whole point of distributing outside the App Store is to avoid all that nonsense with Apple's rules.
My wife is a school teacher who is currently teaching remotely while I work remotely as a programmer.

We live in a small two bedroom apartment, but we rearranged the whole house to make it all work.

We converted our bedroom into a bedroom and office for my wife, our 4 year old son's bedroom into a family room and office for me, and then we turned our entire living room into a school and play room for our son.

We then hired a nanny to tutor and play with our 4 year old son during the day while we each work in our respective offices. She is an ex-teacher who has been self-isolating since March (the same as us).

She charges $12 an hour for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, which works out to $360 a week. This is about $100 more than keeping our son in his daycare, but now he's getting one-on-one interaction and tutoring instead of just being one kid out of twenty in a room with only two teachers.

Unless my wife's school district (or my office) is willing to provide hazmat suits and/or effective PPE, we intend to stay home until a vaccine is released.
How Epic's War Against Apple Is Righteous
My thoughts exactly. It'd be good if multiple separate herds could be tested, but that would get pretty expensive.
I'm not sure that balances the equation.
I should have been more clear: We're discussing Google's digital properties, upon which murder is impossible to commit, as murder requires a corporeal — non-digital — form. Can you restate your reply in those terms? It's hard to make sense of what you're saying here.
"Our country tried that at one point too, and it also didn't end well."

In fact the mental health insttutions system of the 70's and earlier was very successful from what I've read about. It was the victim of a mass campaign of what we today would call "fake news" from activists. The result is the crisis you have today, where people that NEED help, even if they are incapable of understanding and consenting to it, can't get it and are left to fend for themselves on the streets.
Epi-pen approx 97% $8/injector, so $16/two-pack, selling for $700 in 2016 https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/01/epipen-outrage-silico...

Of course, software sales have much higher margin of production cost (every copy but the first is free-to-make).
Amen, brother! Physical presence here until the house of cards falls down, then... Shuffle?
C-L-I.

But steering the sentence to say "command line" might be even more idiomatic. That is:

"It would be fastest to delete that directory tree from the command line"

would be preferred to:

"It would be fastest to use the C-L-I to delete that directory tree"
The "low" end is often grossly unprofitable (or, frankly, aggravating) to the point of dragging down the product and the support personnel.
If your unit is too big it actually makes things worse, because it cycles on and off a lot more which in turn means it pulls less humidity out of the air. I think the rule is you want one ton per 600sq ft that you’re cooling, give or take.
Everyone complains about LinkedIn and recruiters. But I get zero spam these days. I think it’s a combo of a setting adjustment (there’s a toggle you can turn off if you are not available for hire) and the fact that I’m clearly using a pitch for my gig/business in the tag line. So if you are inundated with recruiters, but still find LinkedIn useful for networking - try those two things. I literally don’t even remember when a recruiter reached out to me the last time.
Not related to the poster but it is surprising that HN is becoming like Reddit where non conformist opinions are downvoted extensively.
This source is trash. The 25 factor comes from the relative impact over the next 100 years for emitting both.

It already factors in (relatively) fast breakdown, which the quoted text then attempts to double count.

Stabilization isn't some intrinsic goal.

I'm sure you can find a coal industry trade publication waving its hands just as well to shift the blame to agriculture.
Agreed that Epic is no stranger to corporate shittiness. I think the parent's point is that somebody looking for a fight is how lots of unjust practices are ended. Complaining that Epic went into this trying to start a legal battle, and is making a PR push, is kind of looking a gift horse in the mouth imho.
Bitmain is one of TSMC's largest customers, and that absolutely has been reinvested by TSMC in developing more advanced fabrication techniques.

Also bitcoin mining chips are actually a lot like deep learning chips in that it's a lot of simple operations scaled out. And indeed, Bitmain now produces deep learning chips too.
Just from looking at the tweets a lot of people do care about the why. I see a lot of people blaming Epic for breaking the contract and some of people blaming Apple for completely kicking Epic off all Apple products. Maybe the reactions would be different if Apple had just arbitrarily kicked off Epic. And there are probably a nonzero number of people who would like to pay less money for VBucks on iOS which is how this whole conflict started anyways.
> In 2018, S2 made its closest approach to the black hole, giving us a chance to observe an effect of relativity known as gravitational redshift.

The reality seems more complicated because the star speeds up at the closest approach. When it speeds up, it is subject to time dilation. Time slows down more as it speeds up, and so any electromagnetic waves emitted by the body will have a lower frequency.

The effect of the speed up is not separable from the fact that it has dunked deeper into the gravitational field of the black hole, which also contributes time dilation.

> If you shine a beam of light into the sky, the light doesn't slow down, but gravity does take away some of its energy.

The red shift that we see is purely a time dilation effect. So that is to say, if there were, say, a 101.5 Mhz radio station on that star, we would see that at a lower Mhz figure purely due to the oscillator of that station appearing to be slower due to time dilation. Someone riding that star, clapping their hands once per second might look like they are clapping once every 1.2 seconds.

The beam of light which is conveying to us the events from a source cannot alter the frequency of those events, even if it changes speed along the way. If we see 1000 events per second, then it means the source is generating 1000 events per second, according to our frame of reference. It cannot be that the source is generating 1200, but then the light somehow subtracts from that due to losing energy while escaping gravity.
> 36 of 50 states require some form of voter ID [1]

The key thing here is not that any voter ID law is necessarily voter-suppression. Some may argue that any ID law is, but most people would evaluate these on a case-by-case basis. For example, in many of those states, you can still vote without the appropriate ID. Some of these laws include alternatives like simply having a person working at the polling place vouch that you are who you say you are. We could argue the merits of such a law, but it's fairly clear that it's still possible to vote in many places without ID.

On the other hand, some laws have been found by the courts to be disenfranchising. Therefore, we should take the skeptical position and assume that new Voter ID laws would disenfranchise legitimate voters, and force the state to provide evidence that such a law's benefits outweighs the rights of the people it injures.

> The risk[ing] their lives part should be clear, there is no reason for a visit to a polling station to be more risk-filled than a visit to the supermarket

This seems ignorant of how polling places work in some neighborhoods. I've never seen lines like this outside of a grocery store. Many polling places will have people waiting for hours to vote, and these issues tend to effect predominantly black neighborhoods... for reasons. https://www.texasobserver.org/lines-wait-vote-texas-primary-...

> Those who really can not vote in person can still request absentee ballots as far as I can tell, it is not as if the USPS is being dismantled.

Yes, but the USPS has said that they will likely not be able to deliver those ballots in time for the election. This combined with having less in-person voting places. When you place your vote, and that vote isn't counted... then you've been disenfranchised. So what will happen to those people who waited in those long lines to vote in the past? Will they go wait for hours with dozens of other people? or will they vote by mail and risk the USPS not delivering it?
On average, a molecule of methane breaks down in less than 10 years. That is a true interpretation.
To be fair, I think they should probably still charge reasonable payment processing fees. They need not depend on the App Store for profit though, they should be able to drop the rate, and they should at minimum allow alternative payment processors.
It takes work to implement an ingame premium currency. The only reason to perform that work is because some business person thinks they have discovered a new way to claim that what they are doing "isn't gambling."
Hey!
I built a little site to create dummy PDF files. This can be useful for media professionals, especially those working in process automation.

For various reasons you do not want to use real customer data, so you often start up InDesign, create a document with whatever text or image in it and write a PDF from this. Obviously this always takes some time.

To make this process easier, I have finalized lorempdf.com at the weekend. It has been in a "90% done" status for quite some time, but I still had to approve my app for production mode with Unsplash. As I have finally finished this, this little project is good to go.

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It’s possible there are other forces at work here. Tencent is an owner in Epic Games/Fortnite.

This may be a show of demonstrating their importance/reach to consumers, to proactively make Trump and the US government afraid of going after them to divest assets.

Yet I still hope Trump forces them to divest assets. And I’m dumbfounded how anyone here could care to stand for Epic Games with their association to the CCP.
> I still don't understand how they make money

I implore you to look into it [1]

[1] https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/robinhood-makes-millions-sell...
That was a bug, Apple worked together with Zoom, and Zoom still distributes software on all of Apple's platforms, including the Mac. Their developer account was not revoked.
I'm reminded of Siderea's excellent essay: "What Software is Made Of" https://siderea.livejournal.com/1241996.html

> A computer program is a specification of the behaviors of an inanimate object. And since inanimate objects, definitionally, do not have behaviors of their own, every single one of those behaviors specified in a computer program – and every single aspect of every one of those behaviors – has to be deliberately chosen and imbued into the object by code. Every single behavior, at every level of abstraction, represents a decision as to what the program is to do in that moment being described.

(Yes, the page is ugly. The words are worth it, or copy-paste into your favorite editor).
This movie is a masterpiece. I find something new every time I watch it.
This is what I expected out of the notarization. It was DRM the whole time.
Yes but the sun is up right now and they are already shedding loads (the dashboard is bouncing off a ceiling of 45 GW).
Mirai has begun selling in California and its even more than the Model 3. It is definitely not subsidized. However, the price between model 3 and the Mirai make me wonder. I don't understand the science fully and I know most people don't know either except for the physicists. I don't trust Elon and batteries could be a short term thing.
California never had much nuclear to begin with. Only 2GW of capacity has been decommissioned so far this millennium.
One great engineer I worked with, he did many years in PHP. At work, we use mostly c++. He quickly learned a lot of it, though he's not an expert, he can get the tasks done.

I wouldn't personally like to work with PHP (my first language...), but I don't see the problem with that, if you do great work. Personally, I think that Python, javascript, and c++ are popular enough that they are solid choices.

Afterwards, it's a question on if you're making a choice for yourself, for the project, or to work with others. In any case, if you have some sense, you can learn given some time.

And I think if you're working on a personal project, you probably just want to see it grow. So, have fun. I'm sure you can re-write the prototype later.
And the hydrogen sulfide probably comes from the metabolism of cysteine and methionine. A low protein diet will produce less smelly farts.
The point is IRP program requires your personal data, and requires IRP business to send your broken part and wait for replacement, usually taking a week.

Real independent place wont ask you anything beyond contact email/phone number _if and only if_ they are unable to do the repair on site while you wait/do your shopping at the mall/take a short walk. Since most places stock parts on site you will get your battery swap /screen replacement done right away.
How many kids with iPhones will now insist that their next phone be Android so they can play Forkknife? This could genuinely make a dent in the iPhone's market share long term.

edit: Count on the irrational fanbois to deliver drive-by downvotes!
> I have a lot of trouble buying the argument that any significant number of iPhone owners expected to be able to run any third-party software they want to.

While I agree with the overwhelming majority of your reply, I'd suggest that the significant majority of iPhone owners expect to be able to run "any third-party software they want" because they expect substantially any third-party software they would want to be available in the App Store. Removing Epic is violating that implicit understanding.
This will be the future of Pro Photography
It really depends on the underlying cause of the homelessness. I live in SF, and have spent a considerable amount of time getting a homeless friend lined up with two different housing options - the 16th Street Hotel (SRO), and the Washburn House. Both were fully paid for by SSDI, and in both cases he left voluntarily to live outside, due to mental health reasons.
Yeah...88k, Alpha and HPPA are pretty obscure for first-tier support being around 30, 15 and 10 years killed by their manufacturer, respectively. Maybe there's still some HPPA boxes grinding out a production workload in some dataccenter someplace. I'd wager to guesss there's some Alphas still running OpenVMS someplace where power is cheap. Almost certainly not an 88k.

Landisk (SH4) and Loongsoon (MIPS), while not common machines, are CPU architectures that are still in production and could be used as a port to newer machines, should someone do the work.