skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point you must choose your bottlenecks. Excess physical capacity doesn't have to be used all the time (that is, there's no "currency" for a bed, and other equipment can be rotated through use and maintenance cycles). If you choose to constrain yourself with the number of beds needed for your 99% situation, then you can't expand beyond that without great difficulty. If you have physical capacity for your 99% situation x 2 or even just one or two extra beds, then you don't have to maintain full-time staff for it. You could extend staff hours, or bring part-time staffers to full-time hours, or bring in (with supervision) students from a nearby medical or nursing school to handle what they can and offload the burden for that 1% situation.
I think that days of big expensive aircraft like modern fighters / bombers are numbered. They will likely be replaced with a swarm of drones, which are smaller, cheaper and harder to detect. For $100M (the price of just one fighter) you can field 10000 cheap drones and literally blot out the sun over the field of battle.
Aren't scammers using Apple gift cards?

Bitcoin isn't the issue here.

When you have the pressure on the target, you can make the pay in whatever currency you'd like and there will always be one.
Prediction ... she will be released on good behavior ... 14 days later.
I’ve started this project, Wabi (https://meetwabi.com), to help people stop physical junk mail, get back control of your life, and ultimately reduce the waste and protect our beautiful Mother Earth.

“Is there a way to unsubscribe all the junk mail?”, I asked myself when I saw a pile of coupons, catalogs, and mails in our living room. Then I started researching online, turns out there are ways to do that but are incredibly time-consuming. I want to build a platform that can help people not just reduce mails but eventually reduce stuff they don’t need, physically and mentally, and enjoy a simpler life.

Currently, Wabi has been used by hundreds of people successfully and saved thousands of trees and counting. I want to invite all of you to join us and try it out. Feel free to leave a comment or PM me if you have any questions and suggestions. Thanks a lot, and let’s make this world a better place!

P.S. it’s only available in the U.S. at this moment but let me know if you have similar problems in your country.

P.P.S. According to the Center for Development of Recycling at San Jose State University, an American adult receives 41 pounds of junk mail per year. To produce this much paper requires cutting down somewhere between 80 million and 100 million trees annually. If left standing, these trees would absorb 1.7 million tons of CO2 a year.
It has an impact on parole boards.
As an idea: crowdsourced bug bounties. If software companies aren't willing to offer sensible incentives, corporations (who often have far more money at stake) should fill in the gaps. If someone built a platform to allow e-commerce/finance/other web companies to (collectively) fund a $500,000 bug bounty for an exploitable bug in an SSL library/Linux/Android/STM32/whatever project they rely on for security, it might encourage many more white hat hackers to pen-test the platform...
OK then, in your opinion what are the main reasons there are many more successful tech companies in the US vs EU?
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Haha yeah. Evangelists, man. Ah well, what can you do.
Fuck yeah if they branch out to become a separate entity, I certainly wouldn't put a single cent towards a company that's cutting off MDN just like that.
And even if anti-aging tech doesn't come quickly enough, preservation a person for centuries in a restorable manner is technically here today:

https://www.brainpreservation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...

Edit: I volunteer for the group that published that document
There is some interesting discussion in an open PR reverting this “https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/pull/9286“. It sounds like they may have broken the copyright on code by outside contributors.
Not gonna happen, but you can always use Symfony's String component that has API like that.

Sure, it's not built-in, but I think this is the best solution for now given the size of PHP's language team.
Not a science fact per se: Until recently I haven't realised the amount of damage inflicted by religion or in the name of religion if you will, to our species. Take Heliocentrism[^1] for example, it was alluded in the 5th century BC that the Earth revolves around the sun and that stars are other "suns". Then religion came along. Galileo nearly died for re-iterating a theory that was accepted by part of the scientific community nearly 2000 years before him.

In similar fashion, years ago while studying the circulatory system for the anatomy class I came across a wikipedia article. This particular part of the circulatory system was documented in detail by Egyptians in 200 BC. Knowledge came from the mummification process. The next breakthrough in this area was made in the 19th century.

Looks like our species could have a colony in Mars by now, if science were allowed to breakthrough linearly.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism
You could say the same thing about literally any job. Do you really think that paying more money doesn't find you better candidates? Do you think everyone should have the exact same salary and never get any raises?

Think about the logical conclusion of your assumptions. It doesn't make any sense.
But one cannot be competent all the time.

Sometimes it's better to punch someone in the nose Monday to avoid a shootout on Friday.
There's a big difference. I'm surprised you don't see it.

If a billionaire donates a new building to a college so his dim-witted son can get in, the entire school benefits because they have a new facility. And the school can see to it that nobody gets "displaced" by this dim-witted kid by increasing the class size by 1.

If a wealthy person bribes and athletic coach to get his kid into school, the school gets no money and no benefit, and someone else was actually displaced.
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This adds at least one full RTT, which chome is very much about minimizing them on user queries.
> I am very privacy, open-source, freedom orientated

I like to think I am as well. How do you balance this when moving from Apple to Android, where Apple (seems) to be much more privacy-focused and basically at zero for open-source/freedom, where Android is basically the reverse? I think there are ways to make it better (custom ROM, alternative app stores), but you give up a lot of functionality (Play Store, Google Pay, etc.), and I'm not sure you can entirely eliminate all concerns.

I like the freedom of Android, so as long as I understand what I'm giving up privacy-wise I don't mind the trade-off. I have at least tried to make it a little harder for Google, using DuckDuckGo, but I'm guessing it only makes a dent with the other massive amounts of data they can still glean from the various services running on the phone, Gmail, Maps, etc.
Automating LFS is where Gentoo came from.
> email addresses are just a user identifier

Email as a protocol I suppose. On top of which some other protocol implemented to provide additional features.

Thanks for doing it.
Retina launches 17-lesson Customer Lifetime Value Academy
Does apple want legal action against themselves? This is just stupid.

The conspiracy theorist in me says maybe they’re trying to make the discussion about about payments and not anticompetitive behavior or the attack on FOSS.
I took the fast.ai courses and highly recommend them for anyone who really wants to learn ML.

Are there any plans for courses on reinforcement learning?
I am trying to get into ML in general and I am having a bit of a problem. I don't know what is what and I lack a basic trajectory. Fortunately I have all the mathematics prereqs so I can just jump in.
What I need is some sort of up-to-date overview of everything ML so that I know what topics to study in which order.
Does anyone know of such a thing?
Actually a DLL built with the same version but with either a different c runtime library (e.g. MD or MT) or a different target (release or debug) will have this problem
I've been thinking lately that Open Source, much less FOSS, needs to separate itself from corporate entities entirely. I've seen FOSS/OS communities use proprietary technologies like Slack over Mattermost or IRC, GitHub over GitLab or Gitea, and even as deep as prioritizing native apps over PWA architecture that could've achieved the same things.

I doubt Apple's ignorance over the economics of the matter or how it relates to community relations will become apparent to them, but I think this is a beacon in the night to developers everywhere. Money driven companies will never be more than a tool, much less your friends.
> We recognize that our tech writing staff drive a great deal of value to MDN users, as do partner contributions to the content. So we are working on a plan to keep the content up to date.

So fucking work out that plan before this announcement. Corporate culture makes me wanna vomit.
I didn't notice when this happened, but apparently iPhone now has over 50% of the US phone market.
So you don't think talent is attracted by higher salaries? Should everyone's salary just be the same, forever?

Would you yourself not switch a job because they offered more money? What you're saying doesn't make any sense.
As you add more modifiers it gets worse; the Republic of the Congo is hanging out with Russia and Vietman on the EUI Democracy Index, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo is all the way down, one point above the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (three modifiers; extra-evil!).
How do i get started too? Where should i begin with?
They're lucky that Apple hasn't yet realized their app is GPLv2. They're going to end up purged from the app store altogether unless they relicense their codebase, no matter what they end up deciding to do with IAP.
It makes me sad.

Born too late to explore the world; born too early to live forever and explore the entire universe; born just in time to make dank memes.
> where the boundary between what's OK and what's not lies?

It scales proportional to your wealth. The varsity blues parents were just too poor to issue a proper bribe.
Setting aside the question of whether Lori and her husband are truly rich or not, you don't like that super rich people openly make donations to get their kids into school they don't deserve to be in so you're okay with other rich people cheating too? I honestly don't understand the logic behind your comment, shouldn't you be upset about both?
>I would literally add "30% Apple Tax" to the check out screen...

I've heard from other iOS devs in a similar bind that Apple forbids you from doing anything to recover the 30% cut they take.

You either just have to eat it, or make your prices 30% higher everywhere.
So, Ender’s Game?
Palantir, Tech’s Next Big IPO, Lost $580M in 2019
I disagree. If Apple were to give in to everybody who declared "we've broken our developer agreement, I can haz side letter?", the flood gates would open pretty quickly. It's one thing to negotiate for preferred treatment, but unilaterally breaking the agreement as an opening move? This aggression will not stand, man.

There are, theoretically, the risks you mention, but (and that may be my stock portfolio talking), I don't see it as particularly likely that Epic will win, especially since they've chosen to take Apple and Google on at the same time.
You would actually need to raise your original price 43% to cover Apple's 30%. And yeah I agree, I am surprised more Apps don't take this approach. But perhaps it is discouraged somehow.
A great read. However, this part remains unfulfilled:

> we still haven’t taken the time to explain in-depth why we had no choice but to remove XUL-based add-ons.

I'm still waiting for an acceptable explanation. The author basically says "XUL was too vulnerable to security problems and crashes" but why couldn't it be left in? I think the real answer is a mix of "We don't have the developer resources (despite millions in revenue every year) to work on it, those resources are going to develop stuff like Pocket" and "We know better than the users, and the bug reports are tiresome, so let's lock it down and disallow people from using XUL addons"

This all happened due to pressure to compete with Chrome, but I think in doing so, Firefox lost it's uniqueness and became just another Chrome follower rather than a contender for web leadership.
Not true. GCC broke compatibility with the memory layout of are string at c++11 and passing those between DLLs with versions of GCC on either side of that change will crash.

The standard doesn't specify memory layout or ABI so as a general rule you can't do this. You can get around it by depending on implementation details like what is implicitly done by chromium
Not that much more, but you'll be able to control the aircraft at all times because the 'pilot' doesn't black out in high-G situations. Maybe save a little bit of weight, smaller radar cross section.
Note that the bulk of developers would not be in a position to run their own appstores as epic wanted to. Their goal is to pay less revenue to Apple but also get rid of the level playing field of the App Store.

Even if Apple agreed to the demands and made the options available to all developers, Epic would have an advantage.

They also have the advantage of being a trusted brand, whereas the games space is full of scammy apps. There’s a reason google specifically requires IAP in that space.

Right now you don’t have to trust a game developer on apple or google to pay them. With Epic’s change, big brands would get a trust afvamtage they could use to increase their dominance.

So asking to make the changes Epic requested was more self serving than it seems. Lowering apple’s commission would benefit all developers. But own IAP and separate app stores would benefit big developers, like epic.
Mortality is inevitable and necessary. I posit that the purpose of technology should be to reduce suffering. The purpose of technology should not be the redistribution of wealth from the masses to those who are adept at manipulating the systems employed by civilization.
It is indispensable to web developers.

Is it the most valuable contribution to Mozilla's mission?

> Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent.
No, it isn't. The b/v tradeoff is not the same thing. The efficiency of an estimator is a different from its bias.
pretty sure you have to offer the same price as on your website if you offer IAP. it’s one more of the developer unfriendly move of the developer program, alongside that you cannot even hint that you can purchase or subscribe somewhere else.
If you read Apple's filing, they actually claim it's impossible to separate distribution from payment processing. I mean, it's as if Apple have never heard of Stripe or PayPal.

Some of that filing is so lousy & so easily proven false, it's starting to look like Apple could lose this one hard.
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Which would those be?
But didn't Epic also pull a similar move on the Google Play store simultaneously?
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Worming the product market fit and scaling the turtle
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The Gaia data have found all white dwarfs out to at least 100 parsecs, I believe. There are some double degenerate pairs within 20 parsecs, although I don't know how short the orbital periods are (probably not very).
Sure, Arch Linux was bootstrapped with LFS by Judd around 2001/2002. Back then pacman was written bash I think?
Xwing unveils autonomous flight system for regional planes
We are a cloud service but we are certainly tackling many of the problems you've listed there. I think the reference to groups/rooms sounds similar to what we want to achieve in multi person conversations.
CaspianReport's YouTube Channel hacked, 75K watching live
The Youtube Channel of a Youtuber called "CaspianReport" has been hacked and renamed to "Еthеrеum Fоundаtiоn" there is a livestream advertising an ethereum scam being watched by 75K people.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwycwWTMcYU / https://www.youtube.com/c/CaspianReport/videos
The constitution specifies that the name of the country is Éire in Irish or Ireland in English, and that name is used in all official functions and diplomatic relations. The act is neither here nor there. The UK referred to Ireland as the Republic of Ireland until 2000, but it was unusual in doing so.

Nowadays, "Republic of Ireland" is usually only used where disambiguation from Northern Ireland is necessary.
Intel drivers seem to go down the drain as soon as the hardware is a few years old.
> If I were in a position where Apple is forcing me to pay a 30% tax, I would literally add "30% Apple Tax" to the check out screen on top of the regular fees to make consumers aware

If you don't know that, it is not allowed to sell for more in iOS than in your site, and the app will get banned for attempting that, forget about displaying 30% apple tax to the users explicitly.

Edit: Heard from somewhere, likely not fully correct.
> will result in flow separation

With thrust vectoring and a TWR > 1 this is less of a concern.
Epic is not a subsidiary of Tencent, Tim Sweeney owns a majority stake in the company.
Which also means that is basically impossible to read some eigen code and mentally visualize the compiled asm. Though there are certainly situations where that doesn't matter, it can be quite annoying.
And what's the most efficient way to slow down?
I think that labeling the extra 30% is also against app store rules.
Yes we can run the whole stack on-prem. We realised very early that on-prem would be needed for many users. So we've made it easy to spin up Hubble in a k8s cluster in your cloud or on bare metal.
This is a typical comment of a Western European.

I know, you would love to forget that Greece and Bulgaria are in Europe.

However... they are.
This is not true. Both Spotify, when they were in the App Store, and NYT have higher prices in the App Store than outside.
As I type this on one of my two corsair keyboards-- that I love-- I am thinking I will check out this S1!
I once found a bug in the Uber Eats app where it would in certain conditions place a previous order and not the one that was displayed. I put some effort in to reproduce the bug and take screenshots & write detailed steps to reproduce. I figured that at best I’d save them some time debugging this and avoid the trouble for their other customers and at worst no big deal, they’d just refund the incorrect order eventually.

Nope, the support monkeys seemed to play dumb and ignored everything I said and didn’t even want to refund me despite them essentially charging me for something I didn’t intentionally order. I ended up filing a successful chargeback and that was the end of the ride (pun intended!) for my business with this disgusting company (in addition to other previous incidents).
Oh, that 'politically motivated propaganda' argument.

That's what Lukashenko is using to imprison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siarhei_Tsikhanouski .

Who ran a blog and youtube channel, recording, often without the knowledge of the person he was talking too.

It is the same style of investigative journalism as Project Veritas, O'Keefe are using to show the true colors of the people, actions and ideologies hiding, conveniently, behind a banner of a 'legitimate' political party (who also, unlike Lukashenko, have access to far greater resources, including Wikipedia to 'clean up')

I hoped to get across 3 points with my previous post:

a) what's happening in Belarus is systemic, medieval-style suppression of the populous, voter abuse, and political imprisonments.

And the argument that used by Lukashenko, is the same as @dukswuff is used against Project Veritas...

b) One of the imprisoned leaders, exposed the methods of the tyranny, using the same approach as investigative journalism (involving recordings) as Project Veritas, O'Keefe is doing in US.

Technology is important there, but not more or equal to the heroism of the people doing it.
And, at least for me, the more dare the retribution, the more heroic actions are of the journalist.

c) Telegram marketing spin manipulating words, trying to assigning the heroism and suffering of the victims -- to their platform.

Just like some in US are using heroism and suffering of the victims in Nazi concentration camps (who did not choose to go there), equating that to people crossing US border illegally and being detained.

This is stealing of valor.

It is being perpetrated in western media daily for many years, and often spills over to events like Democratic National Convention.

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I am also going add one more point.

The statements Lukashenko is making about Byelorussian's duty to support him, so not dissimilar to the argument Biden is making about the duty of African-Americans to to support his candidacy.

The marks are that similar.
This is exactly what I am using.
Thanks for flagging (heh)! I had no idea this was happening but I always learn so much. Bummer there's no beginner quest, I never did get around to finishing last year's challenges.
Yeah, it feels more like they're getting punished for getting a discount and not giving the universities the bribe directly (likely because the actual 'fee' for getting your kid in is more than they could afford).

I was similarly bothered by this, and by the fact that nobody was worried that these students would fail out given that they cheated their way in.

Says a lot about the actual signalling value vs. educational value of the universities (and the lottery that is admissions).

On a tangential note, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' really great memoir "Small Fry" talks about her experience with this a bit. She dreamed of going to Harvard and during the admissions interview it didn't seem to be going anywhere until she quietly mentioned that her dad founded a computer company (the interviewer asked which one which prompted Lisa to say Apple at which point the dense interviewer figured out she was Steve Jobs' daughter) - and then the interviewer left the room for a time.

When the interviewer came back she was smiling and generally a lot more engaged. Lisa went to Harvard.

College admissions is an unfair system in a billion different ways, I hope ISAs like Lambda School end up replacing a lot of it for most people. Lori Loughlin and the actors cheated the system, but it's weird to me that they got in trouble because they didn't cheat in the right way.

You need to be rich enough to pay a large enough bribe to the school directly. If that fails, hopefully you have a famous father.

Otherwise it's a lottery.

[Edit]: For those arguing paying the school bribe is different because other students benefit, I'd argue there should be at least some transparency in this process. If admissions slots are for sale, let the public see the price (instead the schools pretend otherwise).
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If you gave actual technical arguments instead of just attacking the credentials of a person you'd actually contribute to the discussion at hand. As is, you seem to have a pretty bad day …