skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why bother with this, instead of having the emerging sat constellations deployed in ways that offer continous coverage of any place on earth, anytime, from various angles, in all useful spectra?

Call it iLive by Setec Astronomy.

Maybe make it public in ways like OpenStreetMap, combine with something like Internet Archive, have it distributed by some P2P-protocol. Done.

Global transparency/awareness for all. Next best thing to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
As far as I can tell it's a cost-plus model. If PG&E wants to grow its revenue, it has to do something that costs more. They have a perverse incentive to make everything as expensive as possible.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/how-rates-w...
Imagine the wild west it would be if every app could redirect payment info to what ever their sketchy payment processor was.

I shudder at the thought.

I very much categorize Epic's actions in the "unsafe" basket.
I have both pro (Home desktop) and enterprise (Work laptop). I don't notice a difference. But we don't really take advantage of the group policy very much.
Fortnite doesn't have loot boxes.
FTR, Python does not in fact do this. Python 2 did have this locale-dependent behavior, but Python 3 has never behaved this way. The workaround in the OP is, thankfully, quite obsolete.

If you call a case-related method like `lower` on a Python string, the behavior you get is based on tables which are built into Python, taken straight from the Unicode standard's data files, and completely independent of your system configuration.

It would nice to also have the option of explicitly using a particular locale. Here's a discussion from 2019 about potentially adding that option:
https://bugs.python.org/issue37848
You'll be glad to see everyone there agrees the default should remain invariant.
So how can we put this to practical use to describe (functional) programs written in practical programming languages like say Lisp or JavaScript or even Haskell?

I assume that would require having some additional notation for built-in concepts like Numbers for instance, and built-in named library functions ?
Should also be a lesson to anyone trying to build a third party platform that if you build a walled garden, people will start to resent it
Cost recovery fees in areas where they were blocked by NIMBY groups? I'd love to see that, but skeptical that the regulator would approve.
IIRC most modern consoles are no longer sold at a loss, though the margins are not very high.
"This - is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way - does not exist!"

- Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
That sounds great, but in practice I found out that people who meditate too little don't get any results, and people who meditate too much tend to neglect other parts of their life such as work and family (often a glorified attitude under the name of detachment), and over decades become less fulfilled than 'regular' people.

There's a wisdom in the simple life of ordinary people, too, don't need to subject yourself to ascetic practices for it. Ask yourself, would meditating for 10 days help you more than taking a vacation and learning something new, with the same focus? Something practical, that would make you better at life, not just feel better about life.

If spiritual practices like meditation were so powerful in a life affirming way, India would be the most advanced country. Rather than closing your eyes and floating in your empty mind, better to open them an learn what is amazing about the world. The world is more exciting than imagination and internal body feelings.
Governments steal lots of stuff all the time. The least they can do is do something useful to the taxpayer with it.
Why Epic's fight with Apple matters for the future of the Metaverse
Almost certainly C#. But it's certainly possible to be a Db, the context depends on the previous and next notes of all voices as much as the current set.

There are exactly seven pitches in a tonality [0] (without getting esoteric), each named A-G. Whether a pitch is a C or D depends on whether that pitch is functioning as the C or D variant in the current tonality. The current tonality is not absolute, most interesting harmonies are created by changing it.

In major (one possible tonality) it is common to pivot to the parallel minor (another tonality that has the same set of pitches but different root). The baroque/classic way of doing that was by constructing the dominant chord of the destination tonality and pivoting to it. In F major, the parallel minor is D minor, whose dominant is A major, which has a C# as the third. If this is what your intent is in the composition, that pitch is named C#.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality
If someone is interested in array languages, I would start with learning q, then k, J, and finally APL. q and k are much more conventional and less complicated than J/APL. They also tend to be more practical, and less mathematical. They also don't have multi-dimensional arrays, so the code tends to be both less general and less confusing. Once you've gotten familiar with them, J and APL won't seem as weird.

Moreover, it's entirely possible to write regular procedural code in q and k, so it's easier to transition to the array language mindset.
This is just just excellent. I do a lot of ETL work and need to build custom workflows for it, this is exactly what I have been looking for. Good job, team!
A simple litmus test:

Is F-Droid in Google Play ?

It is not.
Understood. Yeah, the issue here is that the entire space is pretty complex - it feels like any angle you approach it from, it'll still be complex.

Will try to figure out a way to better communicate what we do.
Exactly. I was very close to using Mongo for a project that had mostly relational data and a few unstructured fields. MySQL with a few JSON columns worked much better in the end.
You'll be glad to hear that Python did stop doing this: Python 3 has never behaved this way, and its `lower` and `upper` methods have always been independent of your locale or anything else from your system.

The workaround in the OP was added in 2006 (note the reference to an issue on "SF", i.e. SourceForge -- another era!), and is now long obsolete.
Apple's platforms aren't an open market either. They allow third party developers to develop for their platforms, subject to you agreeing to their terms.
Very interesting, thanks! I wish there were more videos focusing on UI latency and snappiness for the Librem 5 but all you see are "feature" videos. It's hard to tell if the phone is laggy (finger move to eyeball time) or not.
A fund like psldx magnifies in both directions.

It’s easy to get enamored when the market is doing well.
Spreadsheet view for all your data is on our roadmap. Integrating into user's file system is something we'll definately explore, it sounds quite interesting.
These are great suggestions, thank you!
Does this also include all the art and treasures that the British stole from the entire world?

The British Museum is an active historical crime scene.

The western world loves talking about intellectual property, morality, and intellectual honesty, but here you actually have the British flaunting all the treasures that they stole from the rest of the world.
At some point in the future, somebody will look back to this action and say "That was our biggest dumb decision, ever!"

Rule Number One in Business: "Never, ever turn away a paying customer. Odds are that he will become your biggest competitor and ruin you."
Occum makes me think drones ought to be a better method
Focusing on race is what keeps people focusing on race. It's fundamentally divisive. Teaching children to think of everything in terms of race is the biggest factor in perpetuating racism.

I suppose there is a market for that, and you're serving it, making money as you divide society.
I live in Baltimore. The GA aircraft you see circling over my town don't have students flying them.

Most of the helicopters belong to either TV stations or city/county/state police. There's also medevac, but they don't circle much.
You don't have to get them every time just often enough that they stop doing it It's about making it statically much riskier for the tigers to misbehave, not saving everyone.
Yep, it's incredibly ahead of its time (written in the late 1800s)! Had to read parts of it for a course on (you guessed it) Lambda Calculus :)
It's not just obfuscation... you can only buy set amounts of V-Bucks, which not always match with the cost of the skins, etc.
It's impossible to truly know their motives (although money is the most likely candidate). I usually judge these things on a personal/consumer level:

"Who is fighting for the consumer?" Epic. It doesn't matter their motives.

Apple is aggressively anticonsumer and it's time someone took them on. They keep handing out concessions for big players, while hurting newcomers. It's time for it to stop.
Paris' straight, wide avenues and beautiful parks are the result of Emperor Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne_Haussmann
Seriously. We generally release most of our new features at 10% of the users and then gradually increase the percentage on the server end. If there's any issue we can turn it off immediately rather than potentially waiting days for the app store to approve our fix.
UI for AWS development VM resources
does anyone know of an alternative UI for the aws console?

as we scale up developers on our team, we want to keep track of who owns what, and standardize our teams on specific console deployment options.

is there an easy to use UI that can keep track of a couple dozen VM's, keep track of which user is using a VM, help me analyze how many people own what and just keep AWS organized?

obviously - the AWS console isn't that : )
Modern cameras will actually automatically sync their shutter rates to any flickering light sources. As for colors, they are designed to let you apply lookup-table based corrections by providing huge amounts of color information you can correct later.

Crucially, this approach wouldn't trigger anything because all of the equipment would work outside of the projector. You would add the lenses and camera aligned and just after the projector. In effect, the system would take the place of the screen in the image path. I don't know of any protected image screen that can detect tampering.
So now we are telling companies what they should make?

We know that margins aren’t 64% - it’s right in their financial statements.

The costs to run the Apple store should be included as a sunk platform cost of the phone just like OSX. The cost to run the store is marginal. The cost to serve up an additional developer app, to review an additional app, and to let someone buy one, is an insignificant fraction.

Would Apple be in their right to charge $25K fee to use their SDK? We would they be within their right to charge a bandwidth fee like Amazon does with the Kindle?

Should all software companies only charge nominal fees because the cost of an additional customer is low?

The cost of credit card transaction is around 3% + $0.25/transaction. While of course that’s much less than 30% for anything over $1.00, most of the revenue from the App Store comes from crap like Candy Crush with in app purchases of gems. Especially since the major players like Netflix and Spotify don’t allow in app purchases.

Let’s not pretend that the money is coming from indy developers selling useful products - most of it is coming from the tokens and loot boxes bought by whales.
Windows still has 87% market share on desktop and laptop web browsing statistics. It was higher at the time that trial took place, and cell phone web browsing wasn't as popular back then. iOS still has less than half of the smartphone market.

p.s. Right to Repair laws ought to make it illegal for Apple to prevent users from installing third-party software on the iPhone. This talk of them being some sort of "monopoly" is totally irrelevant.
I'm not well versed in these things so excuse the stupid question, but is the 'code' that runs the chips somehow hard-wired into the chip essentially? I only know vaguely what FPGA's are from investing a little bit in Xilinx late last year, mainly because from what I read they seemed very important to AI implementation and development. What are the benefits of making ASIC's vs FPGA's? Is it a cost thing (i.e. the ASIC's are cheaper to make?)
What makes them bad for APIs or databases? Both k and q are very practical general purpose languages (J and APL less so) that would be an appropriate choice for almost any kind of app, imo.

q especially looks mostly like a normal procedural language, and can be used like one too.
I feel sorry for you. but you placed your bets, on a closed platform you don't control.in short, you dug your grave. in your own words, the web as we know it is dead [sic]. Had you stuck to the web, maybe the business would still exist to this day.
But you did say that Apple should lower costs because their marginal cost is $0. The same is true for Epic.
Thanks! Give it a go and let us know if there's anything we can do to make this better. We let you export Python code that maps 1-to-1 to any processing step you take on the UI.
> At some point in the future, somebody will look back to this action and say "That was our biggest dumb decision, ever!"

I doubt anyone will look back and think it's the US’s dumbest decision of 2020, much less ever.
> Hottest temperature on Earth recorded in Death Valley

(Footnote: Wrong of course. You can find much higher temperatures in places around any active volcano. Hottest climate registered, or hottest weather would be a better title)
Indeed. There are, however, ways around that.
Isn't this just being pedantic? How is TFA's point changed by substituting "social sciences and other humanities" for "social science"?
We've been seeking answers to big questions like where did we come from, why are we here, and where are we going, for a very long time.

Now whether that those answers are accurate is a different question. But I think it's clear that humans crave meaning, and are happy to relegate meaning-making to third party institutions such as organized religion or the media.
"The mystery has been solved: somehow my "NVIDIA Control Panel" got configured to always run executables named "engine.exe" on the discrete card, rather than defaulting to the integrated card, which has different performance characteristics"

https://twitter.com/masonremaley/status/1295483684561342464
Can I buy and sell virtual items in Fortnite without giving Epic a cut?
There is a connection between over a hundred thousand people dying and people holding massive parties, yes.
If alternative app stores are consistently lower quality than Apple's app store, why do you think consumers wouldn't notice them and avoid those stores?
AWS ELB launches Desync Mitigation Mode and open sources HTTP Desync Guardian
On some more digging through history, it looks like the change in behavior for byte strings was intentional:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6ccd3f2dbcb98b33a71...

Author: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>

Date: Tue Oct 9 03:46:30 2007 +0000

Replace all (locale-dependent) uses of isupper(), tolower(), etc., by
locally-defined macros that assume ASCII and only consider ASCII letters.
Given that every time I've been depressed it has consisted precisely of detaching from the quotidian world somewhat, sitting still a lot, thinking, being aware of thinking, I'm not surprised by this result. It's too much 'yin'. I notice when the diagnosis is depression the first thing doctors reach for, before pills or anything else, is exercise, movement of any kind, which not coincidentally is a 'yang' thing. (Doesn't always work on its own since the patient has to have enough motivation to go do it.)

When your world is all crazy and on fire with hectic activity, that's when it's the most beneficial to stop and meditate. I think some of the meditation stuff as it's marketed in the West, is first of all done without much regard to the needs of (or actual effect on) those who buy the book/class/etc., and is secondly based on the implicit assumption that "our modern lives" are filled with too much activity - errands and dropping-off-the-kids and whatnot. But if you're depressed the opposite is usually the case.
Agreeing to a TOS is a standard for open markets. Splitting hairs over a TOS existing is ignoring the fact that Epic doesn't allow third parties to sell in their market (with or without a TOS).
> Don’t forget to set a password also for the YubiKey Authenticator app. Otherwise I believe anyone who has your key would see the websites with which you have Fido U2F and use it.

From what I can see YubiKey Authenticator is a TOTP authenticator. So that's completely orthogonal to U2F (and less safe, although more familiar to users who have things like Google Authenticator)

With U2F non-resident credentials don't leave any trace. If somebody has stolen a working authenticator they'd need to guess sites at which its non-resident credentials would be valid and then try it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185374
Whether they want to or not is beside the point, which is to consider whether it would be anticompetitive for Google to ban other app stores from Android.

As far as I can see, what distinguishes Apple from Google is status quo. Apple never did allow app distribution other than through the Apple App Store. i.e. "We've always been doing it"
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13456638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10001364
Dude, you win today's unluckiest developer award. Most of those were good ideas to work on, right up until they were banned.

The flip side is, you've been involved with a lot of projects. And that's often a big advantage. Some devs stay with the same company for 5 to 10 years.
It might be more neutral to characterize it as "there's no objectively observable meaning, and whatever meaning exists was constructed by humans."
GP didn't say that Fortnite has loot boxes; they used loot boxes as a point of comparison with actual gambling.
There definitely are economies of scale for heating and cooling, and doubly so when you're generating electrical power as well; this is known as "cogeneration" or "combined heat and power". Generating electrical power inherently generates waste heat as well, and a perfect use for this heat is generating steam and/or running an absorption chiller.

The canonical example is the combined heat/power/chilled-water plants often found in university campuses. There's a gas turbine, usually running on natural gas, and its hot exhaust gas is used to make steam. The chilled water is usually generated by variable-speed centrifugal chillers, which are remarkably efficient machines compared to smaller-scale refrigeration systems. Nowadays, there's centrifugal chillers that don't even need oil in the refrigerant to lubricate the bearings because the bearings are active magnetic bearings (like in turbomolecular vacuum pumps and uranium enrichment centrifuges): the shaft with the turbine/motor is made to levitate and a computer actively controls its position to micrometer accuracy. Oil-free magnetic bearings not only eliminate a source of frictional loss but also allow for more efficient heat transfer in the heat exchangers (https://mnashrae.org/downloads/Presentations/magnetic_bearin...) because there's no oil to provide unwanted insulation between the copper surface and the refrigerant inside.

Since a single entity controls the buildings and the utility tunnels alike, there are steam and chilled water pipes going to every building. In each building the steam is passed through heat exchangers to heat potable/domestic hot water and also heat hot water that'll be used for heating air. (It's also possible to have a single-phase system where no steam is generated at the central plant -- just hot water; apparently there are efficiency gains from doing so). The chilled water is directly used for cooling air. Equipment that needs heating or cooling can be plumbed into the facility's heating hot water or chilled water systems, rather than requiring their own (smaller and less efficient) heating or vapor-compression refrigeration systems.

The electricity generated on-site might be somewhat more expensive than grid rates since your utility's large-scale generation facilities are hopefully more efficient. In exchange, the waste heat from the generation process -- which would otherwise be discarded -- will keep your buildings and equipment warm for free (well, for the cost of moving steam / hot water around and maintaining the system).

You can be clever and throttle your gas turbine based on the facility's instantaneous electrical / chilled-water / steam requirements (and even import power from the grid if it's economical); or run the chillers a bit more than necessary overnight (and store the chilled water in tanks) so during the day there's less load required on the system.
Why didn't they make it a subscription at this point? Pay $100 per month, or your iPhone would lock and demand that you return it to an Apple Store.
The Things You Want to Do and The Things You’ll Be Glad You Did
> Hottest temperature on Earth recorded in Death Valley

(Footnote: Wrong of course. You can find much higher temperatures on earth and those have been thoroughly measured of course.

Hottest climate registered, or hottest weather would made a better title)

> What could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth? 54.4ºC

If we speak of natural processes in the earth surface, the correct answer should be (probably) lava's temperature: 1200ºC. Man has created furnaces that work at even higher temperatures. I don't know where is the record at this moment.
Agriculture must become net carbon neutral if not negative to confront the effects of climate change. As Gates mentions, soils comprise a larger carbon reservoir than the atmosphere. A successful strategy may include the following (likely necessary but not necessarily sufficient) prongs:

- halting deforestation as quickly and entirely as possible

- transitioning to net-neutral industrial machinery and power supplies

- preserving soil health by crop rotation etc

- increasing sequestration of atmospheric carbon and improving soil health by breeding/engineering plants for higher CO2 incorporation rates

- breeding/engineering plants for other traits like water/abiotic and pest/biotic stress resilience, reduced fertilizer and nutrient requirements, etc

- human consumption habits must transition to less energy-intensive and pollution-producing foods (typically fewer animals and more plants, although the issue is complex)
If there was a time for array languages, it would be now. I would argue that most programming nowadays is about manipulating arrays of data.
oh come on you guyes never heard of Bitnami?
You really don't, unless your standard of an acceptable life is absurd.

You can make a good argument for the internet being needed but you would be able to live a fantastic life with 'just' a laptop and a non-smart phone.
Or they could give it back to the people they stole it from.
> If people already know how to make 'human sized places' wouldn't that imply planning?

No, it's what arises from a lack of planning when you let individual or small groups of humans build structures that fit their needs without too much meddling. A shop owner builds a shop the way he wants it to be. The apartment building next door is built the way that apartment building owner wants it to be.

There's no central committee forcing them to adhere to a grand central plan that makes everything look alike. That's how you end up with varied, idiosyncratic architecture that has personality instead of the vast, lifeless spaces that were designed by committee to be all things to all people and end up being nothing to no one.

There does have to be some central coordination to help mediate disputes and ensure one person doesn't infringe too much on others, but it should be minimal.