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> You certainly can influnce a company - it is called being or not being a customer.

Let's be optimistic and assume 10% of the population is informed and passionate enough about a company's wrongdoings to boycott it. That company is still going to thrive just fine on the business from the other 90%. Holdouts alone won't stop it from accumulating power and reach.
So cool to see all the different free services out there for getting in to web dev. I remember having to do graphic design work growing up to afford a shared hosting plan on my mom's credit card. Times have definitely changed :D

Lately I've been enjoying KubeSail's (https://kubesail.com/) free tier for playing around with some SSR things. A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff since they're just meant to run one piece of code then die a few seconds later
Netpbm seems to have terrible support for modern image formats. Unless I'm missing something, I can't imagine using it to handle user-supplied images.
If you don't like it why don't you make your own phone platform and make its app store free.

It is easy to demand free shit from already established platforms since they don't strictly need it now, but it required a lot of capital and work to get to the point it is now and now you are expecting to get a free ride on top of that.

Then again this incident has nothing to do with Apple or Epic. This is essentially China vs USA case. Just another form of cyber warfare and comments like yours show that China is succeeding.
He seems really insistent on not being ID'd for buses or trains, but its a requirement for flying which has a whole section. Is there something going on with buses and trains that are under more scrutiny? Also, if he can get around the ID with fake names via buses and trains why would he even accept flying?
Certain experiments have shown that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local realism, and this means either that locality is wrong, and the world has faster-than-light communication, or that realism is wrong, and that there are no single outcomes to events. Assuming that locality is true and realism is wrong, when you measure particle 1, it's not that the result is being instantly communicated to particle 2 and causing it to come out that way, but all possible outcomes for each particle measurement happen separately, and all versions of things affected by particle 1's measurement only interact with versions of the world where particle 2 has or will have a compatible measurement. No collapse ever happens, though from each of the perspectives of humans inside the superposition, they will see results that look like their own measurement caused a collapse, because they each will eventually see a single consistent outcome for the results of the particles' spins.

The results of nonlocal and nonrealism theories come out the same, though nonlocal theories imply a lot of mysteries around the contradiction between instant communication and relativity of simultaneity, while nonrealism just paints a picture of a MWI universe that's surprisingly larger than our expectations.
It doesn’t ”counteract” it. All dimensions increase based on the same coefficient. Same percentage increase on all axis.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion and check the coefficient of expansion.
There is also explainxkcd, which displays the title text underneath the picture, and has categorization, searching, explanations (in case there is anything you forgot, or do not know, or just want to read other people's commentary), transcripts (helpful for search, and also to copy the text), and more.

Additionally, if you have user CSS in your browser, you can force it to display the title text even in the official xkcd web pages (CSS has a command to display the text of HTML attributes).
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That restaurant would def go on to a mental ban list. I hate when they do that. It’s like an extra sales tax. I want the total number, after all of the fees.

A true place I know that banned tipping is Crew Collective Cafe in Montreal.

It’s the same group that started crew.co and Unsplash.
If the news sites do not want the traffic, they are perfectly free to use their robots.txt to stop google from scraping.

The want to have their cake and eat it too, plus get paid for the privilege.

Having said this, I have no sympathy for Google either.
There's too much filler background too...
Show HN: Made in India CSS
If control cost them money they would let control go. The answer is money.
It’s too bad caldera didn’t have ownership to give it away, rather they had rights to sublicense it.

Should have bought a $100 ancient Unix license instead.
Apple doesn’t make $50B a year from the App Store. That’s roughly it’s entire services revenues. It’s estimated that developers had gross sales of $50B from the AppStore last year, of which $15B is Apples share before expenses.

Apples audited financials tell us gross margins on services is 68%, and $9B of those services are from an annual payment from Google for search placement in Safari with a gross margin approaching 100%. So you can make up whatever numbers you want given your limited understanding of what services the App Store provides, but App Store gross margins are clearly likely to be in the 50-65% range, making its break even somewhere between 10-15% of developer revenues.

And lastly, gross margins aren’t net margins. Apple still has to pay for marketing, sales, admin, support, etc out of iPhone gross margins, and the App Store still needs to contribute to some if these as well.
The Challenge of Marxism
Great list, I'm glad to see the number of options increasing.

This reminded me of one of my projects, http://hasgluten.com, kind of forgotten but still up & running on github pages since I learned react 6y ago.

Code is here for the archeologists: https://github.com/hasgluten/hasgluten
Architecture of the Nintendo DS
Yes, I got some ideas from this thread on how to improve the messaging. We'll see.
I guess the other option is stealing it back from the European museums holding it, but I suppose now it would be called theft rather than "cultural cross pollination"

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/28/chinese-art-theft
Exactly, and luxury brands are characterized by their electivity. While and appstore has formed to become something close to a virtual public good.
I think it isn't so much about what traffic to a static site will do to a server, but rather what the experience is for the end user. The tie in to CDNs help reduce load time for your end user.
My danger sidekick says otherwise.
I learned that protected data is probably safe for a finite timescale with all currently known forms of encryption under the assumption there isn't technological advancement that severely restricts the first assessment.
Fentanyl is actually a very safe opioid. It doesn't have metabolic products that can cause side effects. If I'm remembering correctly, it has a larger therapeutic index (toxic dose / therapeutic dose) than other opioid options like morphine or oxycodone.

The problem is it's incredibly potent. For an adult, you might start at 25 ug. Not a big deal when you're drawing up a 100 ug/mL solution, but it's a big problem when you're trying to eyeball a powder of unknown purity. Plus fentanyl is showing up as an adulterant in street drugs like cocaine, where no one is expecting it.

I was reading that in Canada there were seeing a number of overdoses where the blood levels of fentanyl were >200ng/L. That's an absolutely massive overdose as typical therapeutic concentrations are 1-3 ng/L. People end up needing a naloxone infusion for a day or more until their body metabolizes all of the drug.
Both projects are moving fairly fast, and regularly adding new features that are not shared.

The last time I made heavy use of ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick, I was suprised how often I would find a feature present in one and not the other (often things like drawing gradients).

And it's not like one has a superset of the other's features: I once painted myself into a corner and created a project that depended on both ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick.
Hey thanks! I’m the cofounder/CTO of KubeSail and this is more or less our purpose for existing! Our goal is to help people learn - open source tools and not black boxes - from just learning javascript to bootstrapping a company :)

Thanks so much for the shoutout!
People normally pay tips for a good service. Making tips mandatory provides no incentive to provide a quality service. If the service quality drops - customers will go elsewhere.
That's neat and makes sense. I mean, aren't zebras basically "dazzle horses"?
For a good developer, those whiteboard problems should not be hard. In my experience, the people who are better at those “riddles” are learning and adapting more quickly.
Apple is adding a lot of value for developers and customers by providing a secure low friction app sales and discovery system.
Tipping isn't legally required, so this story doesn't make much sense.
Why Apple should know that a random Joe replaced the touchscreen of his iPhone?
I don't see any reason. HP doesn't know I replaced my keyboard three months ago and the keyboard works.
Hand on heart, do you believe Danger would still be around producing smartphones if they weren’t acquired?
I know this isn't real science or anything, but this video helped me better understand the issue with the soil.

It's from Bon Appétit, where Brad goes to a ranch in Texas. Jump to 9:30 for the soil bit. It goes on for a couple of minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAO1A6EdVVA
Yeah, it seems your right.
It’s because wages haven’t been catching up with inflation for decades also. Not just food service, pretty much in every sector, maybe with the exception of tech.
From the GitHub Readme "The rest of the complexity is just being clever with batching (both across examples and over sequence length) so that training is efficient."

What kind of complexities is he talking about? Is it simply the complexity of having a batch dimension? (compared to more simple single input code)
Delimiting Huawei ads kit: feat INTERSTITIAL ADs using React Native
Username definitely checks out, but are you advocating for automatically harsher penalties, scaled by net worth? What problem would it solve, except for encouraging poor people to commit more crimes, since they'd now face relatively less severe?

No offence, but this reads like Tumblr "communism" propoganda gone too far.

The entire point of (Western) justice is to enforce impartially against the actions committed, not against someone's skin colour, gender, religion, or indeed, net worth.
They probably will. And then what? You've now created a city that can't sustain itself and relies on being fed by others.

And at some point the "others" (read: the rest of the country) will not want to pay to fund the cool new city.
I agree using imagemagick to resize images is ridiculous overkill, that's using something like 0.01% of what it's capable of...

But then again we also use groupware/chat programs these days that occupy more RAM on the workstation OS than the entire amount of physical RAM in all of the BSD/Linux servers of a mid-sized ISP 18 years ago.
Your comment might be interesting if you could explain why you like and dislike them, but as it is it's not very useful.
Link is wrong, you added I after pasting it :D
Look I don’t know what has you so triggered and angry about bikes, but your hyperbole and exaggeration is undermining your arguments, you’re making your points weaker by trying so hard to prove your point. A good example is framing fixing a bike flat to be more effort than taking your car to the mechanic. Fixing a flat takes roughly 5 minutes if you’re slow, which is less time than it takes to drive to the shop (by approx. 1 order of magnitude), and a lot less money (by approx. 2 orders of magnitude). I know it happens once in a while, but I’ve never snapped a chain in my life. On the other hand, I have had a car engine blow out, more than once.

It’s just us here; acting like a bike is soooo hard to deal with isn’t going to convince me, since I know how much effort bike maintenance takes and how much car maintenance takes. I know from experience that cars are the bigger drain on time and money by many multiples. Pretending otherwise is just ensuring I have more reasons to discount what you’re saying.

> A Fiat 500 is 3.5 meters long and 1.6 meters wide. No way can you “literally” fit 10 bikes being ridden on the road in that space - or even 3. Parked, you might be able to fit 3.

Standard bike rack spacing is 12-16 inches. Mine is 14 and fits mountain bikes side by side. I’ll give you a generous 15 inches, in which you can comfortably fit 8 bikes in 3.5 meters. 1.6 meters wide is a tad narrow, but many full size adult bikes come in at just over 1.7 meters long. You ungenerously picked one of the smallest cars ever made to attempt to prove your point, but I’m happy to concede that you were wrong by 8x rather than 10x. If you picked a Honda Fit, which is on the small side of small cars, then 10 bikes actually do fit in it’s 162 inch length.

Lanes aren’t 1.6 meters wide, they are wider, and bikes don’t need to be spaced out as much as cars. The throughput can be much higher than 10x due to slower speeds and the higher density in both directions, sideways and front to back.

It seems like you decided the outcome before you thought about this very carefully.

> No, I’m not including the cost of container shipping ...

There’s a lot of snark in your answer, but you fail to acknowledge that there’s no winning the comparison against cars, which is what I was talking about. Whatever the costs of shipping and materials, cars are 20-40x the mass of bikes.

Hey, I agree with you that walking is cheaper than bikes in all ways, and I surely advocate walking. I don’t get your rage over bikes though, they’re a huge improvement over cars, and they are not otherwise causing problems relative to walking.

> my point was that bikers gloss over needing roads and the cost of that, car drivers don't.

One tiny little nit you seem to have overlooked: walkers need and use sidewalks too, so for the one “externality” you’re considering (while selectively ignoring the larger and more important ones like pollution, oil & gas, and accidents) pavement is an externality for walking too. You could claim walkers don’t need sidewalks, but bikes don’t really need sidewalks either, plenty of bikes will ride on dirt paths comfortably.
My "ff-dice" program (together with "pngff" to decode PNG, and "ffpng" to encode PNG; these two also require LodePNG, which is included, and which itself has no other dependencies) also does that.

Netpbm also does this; you can use the "pamdice" program (together with "pngtopnm" and "pnmtopng" to decode and encode PNG). However, pamdice requires creating intermediate files, while ff-dice doesn't require that.

So, you have two more things to try if ImageMagick won't work.
They under grounded the utilities in my neighborhood. Took them about 3 years total. I'd wake up to the sound of guys jackhammering outside my window. For a couple of months contractors were using the spot in front of my house to stash their metal plates.

I think it was worth it. But there are crankypants types that hate any change because it's change.
Because the gov should not control what a private business could do unless it's against the laws? The debate is whether Apple is a monopoly, until we conclude that Apple should be able to run their store as they see fit. Personally I would say Apple is not a monopoly, but Apple + Google is a duopoly and maybe gov should do something about BOTH of them.
"Civlisation will survive, in one shape or the other"

Yes, that was my point.

That the current path is not shiny, I very much agree. But I just disagree to the "we are all doomed" mindset.
That just reinforces the dark szenario.

We are not doomed, but yes, we have to start today acting in a serious way. And this is not really happening.
Is it really spam when the content is actually useful?
Also, this is true for windows OS. Once you installed it, the computer would not belong to you. They would force updating, updating, and updating. Even if you were in meeting, that speaker stopped the talk and went back to find another computer.

It is ridiculous. Nowadays, physician could do a surgery in remote. How about during operation there is an update.
That’s the thing when chasing the market wants: it’s always short term though it’s over a long term.
It is politically infeasible to do anything with Nuclear power but the technology potentially exists (eg thorium reactors). In this era where punditry is as good as expertise, however, nuclear power plants that failed safe would be looked as the "unsinkable" Titanic was, in hindsight. On top of that, the Fukushima nuclear disaster set the nuclear industry back decades.
Question for devs working in the medical industry: what are the regulations and standards that you have to follow when storing and handling patient data in your country/region?
Apple really doesn't like the environment, does it? You're forced to get a new device every time.

God for business, shit for the world. But Apple customers don't seem to care one bit.
Thank you for the response. :)

I’m used to getting “most of our users don’t have an issue, so we don’t care” responses (Robinhood did this for a while before they finally added a toggle, and Spotify straight up doesn’t care), so having a company actually note they’ll look into doing it if possible is really appreciated by me.
> Frankly that's Google, Facebook, and Twitter. They are aimed at maximising engagement and outrage does that for them.

Please, do a google image search for "daily telegraph cover", and then give me your description of the Murdoch news media.
Related: see GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi's video on climate change, sustainable agriculture, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQvfaW54NU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
A role encompasses a set of responsibilities. When we try to make the responsibilities too narrow it creates lots of space for myopia. Narrower still, and the person starts to guard it jealously, because it’s all they have.

We got rid of most of the DBAs, Architects, and QA. Any of those would be better than having someone whose only job is wrangling third party code.
Just FYI, there is no downvoting for submissions on Hacker News. If you dislike the topic, ignore it and move on. Only for inflaming submissions, there's a "flag" button. Normally it's rarely used, I've only used it a few times before, but effective to kill toxic political flamewars before it's out of control.
> According to court documents, the co-conspirator is suffering from a severe cognitive disease so the FBI was not seeking an arrest warrant “at this time”.

So they're saying an 85 year senile old man committed international espionage. Press F to doubt.
Maybe because the original link has been posted 6 hours ago :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193278
I think so. I think it’s the intent that counts. They are clearly doing an SEO and content marketing play. I see their articles in SERPs for lots of keywords. But I find them to be just barely passable quality.
Leveraging Computer Vision in Drone Tech
It is fantastic how far we have gotten. I had a web in Geocities before the Yahoo purchase. It allowed 150 Kilobytes of storage and no CGI (Common Gateway Interface).

I do no see mention of size limits in the article. I just checked Firebase and the free tier allows up to 1 GiB total.

Security is the other change. To run CGI allowed control of too much for any provider to be comfortable with it. Containerization and overall Operating System improvements allow for server-side code with safety (Spectre aside).

Great article and great opportunity for anyone that wants to start small on the cloud.
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Me three, and I think the intented blocks were a masterstroke. Why do so many others have redundant braces or begin/end markers while still need to indent?
API Testing Best Practices
There is plenty of people who lack the skill or ability to do fine repairs. Especially with batteries, if you have no idea what you're doing, it can easily lead to insurances not paying in case you do get injured or damage something.
Knowing how cybersecurity is handled in vast majority of japanese companies, I wonder why they even consider WFH as an option.
Every other service business that isn’t a restaurant doesn’t have tips and they seem to be doing fine. What is it with restaurants that makes workers only provide good service because of money? Do food service workers not have any intrinsic motivation to do a good job?
A lot of the notation in coding theory is drawn from set theory, like ∈ (set membership). Which, more specifically are you confused about?
Really struggling with Zoom on a Dell Chromebook. It's 7-10 FPS, and outbound audio quality is often unusable. It shows this warning: "You CPU usage is affecting meeting quality". I guess it lacks a decent CPU to do video.

Closing all other apps helps a bit; I guess it lacks RAM too, or is using CPU to compress RAM? Still, sometimes outbound audio gets 5-30 seconds behind. Very disjoint experience. Not meant for the Zoom era.
The legislation treats used items differently. Unless the seller purposefully hid something from you then you accept used items as-is with no further responsibility accepted by the seller. So the chain ends on the first sale on a new item. There are exceptions to this for certain items(say cars). But if you buy a second hand phone and it explodes a month later then whoever sold you the item is not responsible.
The most bombed country in history
Working as a contractor in the UK, most contracts stipulate you have Professional Indemnity insurance, which is for exactly this. I doubt anyone has actually made a claim for it though, the amount of other people I've worked with (who are also contractors earning £500+/day) who I wouldn't trust to even watch my laptop is atrocious.
Is the word "pass" still needed? It should look for empty braces and add "pass" automatically in that case, I should think, isn't it? (Doesn't "pass" just means doing nothing?)
“Hey, Siri, what's overhead?”
Looking for a solution of f(x)=1/x at x=0 is also ridiculous, because it is simply not defined there. But how does then a quantum cat in a box pass this test? Is a completely coherent box of cat and poison that could kill it before decoherence even possible? Quantum computers have to freeze everything to absolute zero+ to work without decoherence, but wouldn't that, applied to the box, actually save the cat (or kill it, depending on your viewpoint)? Poison couldn't do its job at zero kelvin. And you cannot have a normal temperature catbox that doesn't decohere immediately, unless it is a box of startrek quantum force shields. Yes, at zero temps we can claim anyway that process maybe has been started, but then when we look at it (by unfreezing), we actually begin to observe that one radioactive atom in our, unseparated reality, as if nothing happened before we opened a lid.

I'm likely wrong in details here, but isn't that thought experiment similar to "what happens at the origin when we draw a hyperbola" sort of question? (Nothing happens, as you can't draw a complete hyperbola.)
Well it doesn’t make the story less true, it just means the waiter lied to two tourists and used the threat of police to get what he wanted. Further evidence that US tipping culture should be abolished.
Alternatively add a cookie exception to block all cookies from medium. Works a treat.
It is anticompetitive because there is no other way to get apps on iOS. If they would allow side loading and other store apps I would have nothing against them
I find it genuinely surprising that such significant art is owned by the royal family and yet wasn't on display for the broader public until now.
Like when you lose your gopro in the surf and you don't have any goggles on.
nice work.
you want to validate your inputfields tho:
number of sides -> 9999999999 -> use and browser tab crashes. :)