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>And what does Apple get in return?

Not being complicit in genocide isn't enough reward by itself?
I am always amazed at how people can hold this thought, considering the billions of lucky moments that would have had to go right over the eons, at the same time as one that demands diligence and deliberateness in planning and executing on those things in our lives and the world in order to make meaningful and successful progress every minute of every day
I guess it depends on whether you are vulnerable health-wise. If you're fit and healthy and not of retirement age I really can't understand this kind of thinking.
We have 3 different media options and 14 different providers. 4 media options if you'd allow for 3g/4g/5g internet, 56k modem internet and satellite internet, but I don't count those.

Differences:

Media is DOCSIS, DSL or Optical fiber

Providers have differences in facilities and services, differences:

- Plain internet vs. user-selectable filters (i.e. SMTP protection, SMB protection, content filters at the ISP level)

- VoIP options

- IPTV options

- Connectivity options (i.e. auto failover to LTE or special managed hardware)

- Addressing options (single IP, multiple IP, routed subnet if you want)

So you might find yourself wanting an all-in-one package over DOCSIS using the coax cable media, which is a common choice (at least before fiber rollout). Or you may like very fast internet in your own control, so you'd take fiber with no bundled stuff. Costs about the same as the other option.

Other things like having HD or 4K broadcasts may limit your choices, not all providers have all channels available in all formats, and not all kinds of media support all kinds of bitrates. So for non-cable (non-DOCSIS) you'd not be able to use 4k with DSL for more than 2 IPTV receivers.

Some providers come with extra on-site support in the package, like someone who will set it up, check that it works with your computer, setup your email if you still have ISP-bound email for some reason, and do your WiFi with extra access points (no repeater!) as needed. Others may be cheap and have no default service like that included and you then have the option to buy it on-demand at a higher price.
Somewhere between weekly and every 3 days, occasionally worse. I do not know the exact resolutions involved but they have "good" and "bad" NVDI images and the "bad" ones are fairly useless for agricultural applications.
Not to mention the opportunity cost of people not being able to start families, buy homes, etc. Go ahead and collect the future economic value of people’s education, but I won’t be surprised when “middle class” America is then too tapped out to support the consumerist economy.

Only people I see having kids are those with strong, secure incomes, or those with no prospects at all. The cohort in the middle earning $40k to $120k doesn’t feel secure enough, or at least not until their 30s.
I recently got back into photography and I've been seriously impressed by darktable. Its tooling is fantastic, and I was worried that I'd struggle now that I'm 100% Linux.

The only downside is the workflow and interface. In my opinion every piece of software on the market now has adopted the wrong workflow in separating photo management from the edit screen, e.g. the light table/dark room split in darktable. The film photography workflow doesn't make sense to me in a digital world.

Apple got it spot-on with Aperture, and I will forever resent them for abandoning it. Its interface and flow were basically perfect for me. Everything being on one screen made it so quick to adjust lots of photos. Everything since has gone the route of Lightroom and I find it really annoying.

But, darktable is free and the tools are good. I can deal with it having the wrong workflow. It has helped me get back into photography again.
Clearly your calm reaction and reliance on the anecdotes of your, uh, relatives demonstrate the true rationality at work here by you and yours.

FFS, indeed
The starter home dream is over. For millions, it was always a fantasy
Or maybe a bit less, it seems Kickstarter changes / fixes the conversions from GBP? Whatever, at the moment it shows me

£1,046,099 2,993 backers 26 days to go.

Let's see what happens in the next three weeks.
HyperCard, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator do not use a markup language internally. As with Web Assembly, it's important we have the right primitive that we can compile to. There are configuration languages that can make it easy for beginners to hand edit a frontend, and in my article I mention the configs that Ruby On Rails, Symfony (PHP), and Django (Python) offer to generate simple CRUD interfaces, and I mention that these configs could be much more powerful if they had the correct primitive to compile against, rather rendering to HTML/CSS.

Aside from all that, I would raise the more urgent question for our industry, why did it seem like such an urgent task, all through the 1980s, 1990s, and early 00s, to create visual software that would make it easy for beginners to create software, and yet now this is no longer a priority? Is there some reason why we are moving away from the era when "Empower the masses to create software" seemed like an important goal for the industry?
in NYC, I’ve only ever had the option for one cable provider at any given location, either Spectrum / Time Warner or Optimum, maybe RCN. but never more than one to pick from, unless you’re in a fios building then I think that’s an option. and there’s usually DSL but that’s not a real competitor.
Let me rephrase maybe: Given the state of affairs I described above, I don’t understand what is the convincing argument that entropy does indeed increase in the long run. Any argument given should also work in the reverse direction, given the symmetry of time, shouldn’t it? (And thereby create a kind of reductio ad absurdum.) If not, why not?
I find myself hoping that large tech behemoths will "go after" each other and tear each other apart, leaving smoking ruin.

Instead, they're fighting over who gets how much of the money. Of course.
The difficulty with "benign" data races and atomic operations with weak ordering, is that they're not guaranteed to behave like the target architecture behaves! It's insufficient to say "this is fine on x86" even in an x86-only program!

That's because the optimizer symbolically executes the program according to the C memory model, not x86 memory model (as if it was some kind of Low-Level Virtual Machine…). The optimizer may reorder or remove memory accesses in ways that wouldn't happen on the target hardware.
This is what frustrated me the most with some of my friends "free market" arguments when net neutrality was in the news. I am also a believer in the invisible hand, but it doesn't work when I can literally only choose from one provider.
The article presents the expert case for why hyperloop is doomed to fail. Normally in this sort of situation, I assume the experts are correct, but not in this case. Let me explain why.

The reason is that we have been in this situation several times before with a Musk idea. The experts all said it was completely crazy, but nonetheless it succeeded spectacularly.

The reason the ideas succeeded is Musk is a genius and as a consequence he thinks things out much better than the experts, who are not geniuses, do.

I am not saying that hyperloop will succeed. No one succeeds all the time, and perhaps this time Musk will fail. I am just saying it seems to me virtually certain he is quite aware of all the factors that the experts say would cause hyperloop to succeed, and has developed surprising solutions to them, and there is a good chance these solutions will succeed.
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I think a lot of them are just cheap crappy bikes that get cut up for scrap too. Someone stole my heavy-ass steel 90s Schwinn mountain bike that was worth maybe $50 used at the time. I had a big ass lock on it too, and they cut right through it with one clean snip. I was pretty pissed because I had just fixed it all up, but there weren't any expensive components on it... Not sure what kind of money could be made on it. Maybe a few bucks at a pawn shop?

Also around Seattle, I have noticed a lot of places that look like homeless camps, but right smack in the middle is a huge pile of hundreds of bicycles. Just sitting there outside. Part of me thinks that a lot of bike thefts could be mentally ill people collecting and hoarding them.
Related: IBM Research has a differential privacy Python library for machine learning and analytics

- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/06/ibm-differential-...

- https://github.com/IBM/differential-privacy-library
That sounds insane. So probably true I guess? Still, sources would be nice!
It's mostly a myth that there are tons of lucrative jobs out there which only require an apprenticeship/vocational school/training:

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/weldin...

It's also not the case that a college education and massive debt go hand-in-hand. In most other Western countries college is either free or much less expensive.

Finally, I disagree that we should determine how "useful" a degree is based solely on its ability to help someone find a high-paying job. While it's certainly true that it's harder to find a job studying the humanities than STEM, perhaps we should consider why it is that our society places such a low value on these subjects?
Sounds like the ‘legitimate’ vendor is price gouging and charging on one end for the pick-up and then is being paid a second time on the other end.

That sounds like the bigger racket to me.

The ‘criminals’ are just reflecting a more true market value, eg that there should be no pickup fee for the value of this commodity.

Further; surely this represents the best of ‘gangs’. “We’ve got too many Vigelantes out improving the efficiency of recycling in our city and stealing a product that’s being discarded on our streets. Oh dear.”
I was SURE I felt like I'd contracted Coronavirus, but it just turned out that I'd been playing Factorio for so many hours straight without pausing to eat or sleep.
Well unfortunately for schools and students all of those things are luxuries.
Silicon Valley's international talent to Canada: 'We want money'
Well no, there's obviously a hierarchy here. If zuckerberg is king, then your family business is the holdings of a minor barony.
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Yes, but they're also trying to darken them so later launches should end up significantly less problematic than the initial ones[0]. I'm not trying to defend them here (in fact I'm quite annoyed from a photography perspective) but appreciate there's two sides to the story and they're at least trying to minimise the problem.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/24/21190273/spacex-starlink-...
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Stressing again:

Potassium is a mineral marked K

There is a a group of vitamins marked K, among them K1 and K2 (with various forms such as MK4 and MK7).

There is NO relation between those too, except the coincidence in using the same letter. What you want w.r.t to bone health is specifically Vitamin K2, not K1, and not the mineral K (a.k.a Potassium).

(This is similar to vitamin C having no particular relation to element C, a.k.a Carbon).
Firefox itself.

FF'S, I love Firefox but stop dumping crap like pockets and containers on me, I just want a lightning fast browser with multicore/multithread performance.

F--k containers, profiles are way better.

Oh and I want tab groups back.
I use other tools - config management and whatnot I do in Saltstack or Ansible, so the VMs are throw-away really, nothing is configured by hand, it's just that they live longer than the lifetime of a single deploy.
I am not sure dedicated full time employees can do better job as whole, on a single person level a professional developer, encyclopedist or writer will outperform even the best amateurs sure, but as a community many open source projects ( documentation or applications) have outperformed professional ones many times.

PostgreSQL is a good example, it fantastic documentation and runs on mostly volunteer work the documentation is on par (IMHO better) to say Oracle/ MSSQL/ DB2 documentation which have paid professional writers behind it for example

Quality is more a function of editorial oversight rather than nature of contributions itself.

SO and wikipedia has both been effective partly because of stricter review process ( reason their brands are trusted) and also have been criticized for it, getting the balance right is not easy.

Sub-reddits are good way to study this, there are ones which emphasize on participation over quality and vice versa, i.e. optimize for the reader or the writer.

There are no perfect solution, and communities must keep changing, early on contributions are more important i.e. quantity, as the site and brand grows large quality is more important (SO and wiki both went through this lifecycle).

MDN has very different starting point - strong brand and content quality but no contributing community. They will have to come with something that fits their unique needs.
Sounds like it might have been written by a bike shop owner, and not a writer. Cut the guy some slack.
The numbers, though very few, seem to fit an exponential well, at least thus far.

If you plot and fit the curve to such an exponential, today you should have ~15 cases. Tomorrow ~25 cases. In one week's time, ~380 cases. ND has ~8600 people attending. To get that many cases should be 14 days from today [0], so August 28th.

If these trends continue as is, then ND won't make it to September before closing down.

Still, the data is sparse.

[0] Day 20 is ~6000 cases, day 21 is ~9400 cases, you can round however you'd like.
I'm afraid it's bike sheds all the way down.
Yeah, you do end up defining everything more than once, once for SA, and then for pydantic. Create, Read, and Update may all be different pydantic models as well. They are for defining what comes in and out of the actual API. Your create request may not have the id field yet and some optional fields, and then the response has everything. And then an update may have everything as optional except the id. Only been using it a few weeks now, but liking it a lot so far.

https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/#create-...
It really depends on the game. I would say 70-100ms is the upper acceptable limit for FPSs (though some like CS:GO or Valorant require even lower), but even like 150-250ms is okay for casual MOBA play.
Hi, I am the author of the above article. Libuv was used - for example by the uvicorn-based versions.
>Without transparency, it's hard to be sure.

USPS has a free API that gives you the location of every collection box. I wonder if anyone has been archiving that data over time to compare?
This is mentioned on literally every Starlink thread I read, and the response is always that unlike previous satellite internet offerings, Starlink operates in low earth orbit, drastically reducing the ping time. Do you have more to add?
Wow that would be cool. Playing a similar game or an RTS to see how the candidate would perform.
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Time to interview somewhere else!
I bet that huge corporations will get their discount in the end, but all smaller players not locking users even further.
I'm trying to think about this in the larger context. By getting more money for a segment of the mail, they could be helping overall. But it's really late in terms of the election. There's no discussion about any adjustments on our current problems. The new usps leadership is saying there's a problem of not enough revenue to provide service. So is this a red herring change, or is it a reasonable adjustment to that? I'd say without connecting this to increases in service to meet the supposed current problem, this is a not an honest attempt to deal with it.

If I was running the usps and I had intentions of providing proper service to the us, I'd address this directly "outr costs are too high, that's why we are talking about not meeting our needs, but we are going to get more revenue by doing this, and now we believe we can meet needs". But all those pieces are not there.

Of course we can sacrifice some short term over-budget spending by the USPS for the crucial honest results for our once in 4 years election.
the letters weren't from the postal union.

"The ballot warnings, issued at the end of July from Thomas J. Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president of the Postal Service, and obtained through a records request by The Washington Post"
> rural areas won't be safe from desperate people

At least for America, most city folk don't seem to understand just how armed their rural counterparts are. They'd be pretty darn safe.
What you're describing is often done in trade high schools. Freshman will rotate through trades and pick one to continue on.

Once you need a career it doesn't really work like that though, often you're working years as an apprentice in a specified trade before you can even think about branching out on your own.

If you switch trades you're back at the bottom with apprenticeships all over again.

Someone like an English major can much easily change careers as long as they're somewhat adjacent (e.g., copywriting, research, journalism, etc) and generally starts off at a higher salary depending on their degree level. Until you hit masters level most degrees are broad generalized education.

Trades are specializations. If you're unsure about which trade you want to get into, you'd likely be better served with a business degree (which is another generalized area of study)... at least that can be applied across trades. Many tradespeople struggle with the business side of things despite being very practiced at their trade.
This ain't your grandpa's Hughes.

> latencies or ping rates ranging from 31ms to 94ms

That's on par or better than what I can get with either point-to-point wifi to small ISP or LTE.
Here's hoping that Facebook pulls Instagram, too.
That's a good point. I was going to mention expansion of the universe as another one, but that invites its own line of "why" questions!
1. They're not a contributor. Not yet, anyway.

2. How degrading do you consider the submission?

As can be seen from the patchset, there's no conceivable way it could be built into the kernel without having the kernel build depend on proprietary headers, effectively disqualifying it entirely. This all-important fact is revealed in the very last patch of a 21-patch patchset, wasting everyone's time, and a lot of it. It's either utter carelessness, stupidity, or outright malice to ask for something like this to be included into a loudly-and-clearly GPL-licensed kernel.
If the optics are bad, a sensible thing would be to defer moving the mailboxes until after November 4.
> It is, however, a wacky far-out conspiracy theory to claim that Google is developing this feature for the purpose of internet domination.

No, it's not. Are you aware that Google is mangling AMP URLs to make them look like original URLs and hide the fact that they are hosted by Google?
Did you read the link I posted?

> The jailbreaking of smartphones continued to be legal "where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of [lawfully obtained software] applications with computer programs on the telephone handset." However, the U.S. Copyright office refused to extend this exemption to tablets, such as iPads, arguing that the term "tablets" is broad and ill-defined, and an exemption to this class of devices could have unintended side effects.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24150451
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I think this is another one of those substance-free articles written by GPT-3 to prank us
I miss a good bike sale. Since the pandemic and subsequent lockdown none of the LBS' in my area are doing sales. they move as fast as they can get them (except the carbon racers)
The other posters are right, double double and quad doubles.

The way to think of them is for a real number r, a double d(r) is the closest value storable in a double, but there may be some error between the real value and the floating-point approximation.

Store that in another double, called dd(r) = r-d(r), and it will have a smaller exponent, but most importantly, it gives you twice as many bits of precision.

Then carefully make +-*/ operations, and you're off to the races.

I've implemented them from scratch on many platforms over the years, often to do deep mandelbrot runs, since they have really good performance for the between double and arbitrary precision libraries.

But it's always the same idea: one double as normal, and another double to represent the difference between the value you care about and the double that represents the higher order bits.
I guess you're right. In practice, a lot of people are just putting one foot in front of another, much of the time. Myself included, probably.

At least humanities courses teach students to write. They're basically essay writing classes.
MP for Cambridge urges the UK government to buy ARM
I think you can maintain it with even less...

KHTML was done by a tiny KDE team.

After Apple adopted it, Webkit/Safari only had a small team of people working on it.

A good team of 12-20 devs is better than some BS team of 250 with politics, communication overhead, lack of coherence etc that comes with scale...
So this means you can blow up another country by just sending a ship full of explosives to their dock with invalid papers... perfection.
It’s a shame that Grant was just used as a prop for some business babble.

Grant was an interesting man, great with horses and possessed with a calm focus in battle. But he battled depression and alcoholism and failure in other aspects of life.

To open with him and pivot to “don’t be a jerk” is inane.
Probably the contractor doing the job was using low paid incompetent Syrian refugees as workers.
> Those who suggest a universal testing program are not recommending that everyone receive an expensive, time-consuming, accurate COVID test.

I’d recommend an inexpensive, accurate test and the time is what it is. If we scaled up test processing, it wouldn’t be that time-consuming, so the premise seems a bit specious. The price can be controlled better than it is.
If the alternative is believing that some chap is orchestrating it and actually intended for my car keys to fall down that tiny hole in the deck because it would ultimately be a meaningful success, no thanks.
This seems fairly unsurprising to me.

Internet is a utility. Most people also don't have a choice in who they get electric, water, gas, etc. from.

It's unfortunate that internet service quality is so varied from location to location, but utilities tend to form natural monopolies.
Ok, but at the same time this is the BETA period. Attacks on his claim should wait until the public availability of the service begins.
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> "Sustainable fishing" means just that the populations do not decline.

A very low bar considering many of those populations have already declined greatly since the 1970s.
I'm getting errors too, it does look like the site is down. Thanks for the deepai.org link.

Running this on photos from yesterday's 1940s.nyc post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24152108) is really fun!
I was pleased when we lived in Boston where our building and many others was able to put microwave-based services on the roof. It was internet-only but very fast and inexpensive - just what we needed. Now we are in Louisville and back to the only two mediocre and more expensive choices - ATT and Spectrum. And if you go out into the country many homes are stuck with satellite internet service from Hughes which is damn near unusable.
You'd be surprised how often people read URLs to one another over the phone.
Canadian here. For us it is Rogers, Bell or some skin of those two