skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the majority of the people here are saying is that Apple margins are artificial and built on having an unescapable walled garden

You mean the same 30% margin that Google, Sony, Microsoft (Xbox), Nintendo, Spotify, etc. charge?

Apple bluetooth profile has been for years not compatible with device to device transfer (I don knwow about the newer models)

People still use slow BT transfers? Why? This isn’t 2004. There are much better ways to transfer files.

Apple messaging platforms can't be made interoperable with Android because Apple does not want to

Sure it is. SMS.

it costs more to buy NY Times subscription from the iOS app - to cover the Apple cut on it

It cost more to buy a soda from the convenience store than the grocery store. I couldn’t advertise at Best Buy that you can buy the same product cheaper at Amazon.
I was unable to find a table matching wavelengths to visible temperatures in a bit of searching. Closest I could find is the chromaticity diagram on Wikipedia's Black-body Radiation article, which puts 1000K around 0.7nm red light.

The WISE article lists 22μm as its longest wavelength, though that might no longer be attainable since WISE is out of coolant. If one can find out what blackbody temperature has its peak at 22μm, then we could maybe see how close to the edge of WISE's temperature range the 400C (673K) and -10C (263K) dwarves are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_E...

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Edit: found it: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackbody_peak_wav...

Looks like 20μm is a bit below 200K, so if I'm interpreting this right, WISE should have had no temperature-related problem (leaving aside brightness) spotting a -10C brown dwarf.
Agreed 100% -- the annual / monthly info is intentionally obfuscated. Rather than a dark pattern I consider it a scam outright.

Monthly pricing is great, people can justify doing a small project with expensive software without breaking the bank and simply resume the subscription if relevant work picks up. Especially great for freelancers.

But intentionally making it appear that it's a monthly subscription when it's actually an annual subscription is beyond the pale.
Telegram created Belarus language public channel.

And posted poll to vote for new president with some clever restrictions.

Anyone can vote, but you can't choose options with candidates if your phone number is not Balarusian.

"I am not from Belarus" is only available poll option to make your vote if your phone number is not Balarusian. There is currently 736'000 votes with that option.

Telegram poll https://t.me/s/telegrambelarus/9

In Belarus there is only 7.8 million eligible voters.

Poll shows that 1,184 million choose to vote for new president Tikhanovskaya.

Only 85'000 votes for current president Lukashenko.

While official results is 80% for current, 7% for new, with 40% participation.

This is obviously mind blowing picture for citizens.
I've found "efficiency as the opposite of stability" a very powerful concept to think about - even though it's fairly simple, it seems to be almost a fundamental law.

Whether it's about the economy at large, your own household, a supply chain, what have you - as soon as you optimize for efficiency by removing friction, you take all the slack/damping out of the system and become instantly more liable to catastrophic failure if some of your basic conditions change. Efficiency gives you a speed bonus, at the cost of increased risk / less resilience to unforeseen events.

Stewart Brand's concept of "Pace Layering" comes to mind for how to deal with this at a systemic level - https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2
What shocked me more than the loss was the honestly kinda ass revenue for their valuation. This isn't Uber with billions in revenue while losing in money.

>In the screenshots of the company’s financials, Palantir lists a net loss of roughly $580 million for 2019, which is almost identical to its loss in 2018. The company listed a net loss percentage of 97% for 2018, improving to a loss of 78% for last year.
They had backups: good for them.

But they also had unencrypted, sensitive information sitting on their networks.
Very early Linux didn't have TCP/IP support either. People used (for a short time) KA9Q (http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/), which was also available for other OS.

Anyone remember (the now glorified) Bill Gates claiming the Internet would just be a fad and announcing that Windows '95 would come w/o support for TCP/IP?
Fair point, but from my perspective, even if it was absolutely the best end-to-end encryption there is, it wouldn't mean much unless everyone's using Telegram for 1-to-1 communication using Secret Chats feature.

> Some of its channels helped unconnected, scattered rallies mature into well-coordinated action.

This line alone makes their encryption rather meaningless for this use case, since Secret Chats only work between two people.
You're looking at the bootstrap install repo. That's barely changed since 5.0 was released in 2015-ish. The framework repo[1] is still being maintained by many different developers and sees a significant new release every 6 months. Taylor still accounts for a significant amount of contributions, but it is his project afterall. Also worth noting that the framework has pretty much reached maturity at this point and updates are more focused on stability and bug fixes than new features. A lot of the work being done is on the ecosystem being built around Laravel (see "The Laravel Ecosystem" on [2]), with Taylor currently teasing another new piece to the ecosystem to be released with Laravel 8 in a few weeks that apparently involves inertia.js (whose maintainer is a speaker at the Laracon event too, if I remember correctly)

1: https://github.com/laravel/framework/graphs/contributors

2: https://laravel.com/
A lot of that stuff from the 50s was actually pretty good advice. It wouldn't help if you were a mile from the blast, but if you were say 5-10 miles away, you have at least 20 seconds between the flash and when the blast wave hits. There may be glass and debris flying everywhere, and you have a much better chance of survival if you're under a desk with your head covered.
1. This is likely user error due to a poor understanding of how PHP memory management works. Unless you're using poorly written extensions then memory management in PHP is quite straightforward.

2. There's a large amount of PHP libraries built to do exactly what you're describing. Long lived PHP processes are live in production across the world.

Straight up misinformation.
How Much Does a John Doe Lawsuit Cost? and What Steps?
Reddit was quite popular before Digg failed. It didn't spring up over night. But yeah, something might replace Reddit one day. Getting there will be extraordinarily hard.
Haha. I'm one of those who despises okra and won't touch any gumbo that's been ruined with it. The taste and the smell are both abhorrent!
So you roll the dice and then leave them in the case and never roll them again?
Look here:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Click on US on the left; look at Daily Cases on the lower right. That's what we did - stopped geometric growth. Never mind models.
> The biggest problem with Slack is not even the "politics" or inappropriate use. It's the fact that chat is a super-horrible way to farm out tasks.

I would file that under "inappropriate use". Slack is not a task or issue tracker, use more appropriate tools for that. While it's certainly flexible and can be adapted to many workflows, there are still limits with features it arguably shouldn't have.
Would you even need a good AI or equipment to be sufficiently disruptive? I imagine a swarm of crudely moving, low cost drones would win most encounters with more complicated targets. This feels like a boon to smaller nations who can quickly gain an edge by capitalizing on existing research.
I remember going to a hotel as a kid where each room had some sort of theme (tropical, polar, etc. at West Edmonton Mall). It would be really neat if you could select an experience that has different levels of technology instead.
The version without std::move does not call a constructor because of copy elision. The get_display_pixels function constructs the disp_pixels object in place.

In the version with std::move, it first copy-elides the function call into a temporary, then move-constructs the disp_pixels object from the temporary. ie as if

auto tmp = emulator.get_display_pixels();
const auto disp_pixels = std::move(tmp); // move constructor called here
// lifetime of tmp ends

So the version with std::move is invoking an extra move-constructor and destructor call.
> The entire internet is being optimized to either outrage you or sexually arouse you as quickly as possible.

I absolutely hate how accurate this is. It feels more and more that the optimization and efficiencies are making the internet less useful but more addictive.
Only thing I got is a Tony Chachere cookbook. No idea how authentic or not it is, but it’s not pretentious.
No one is truly a Scotsman...
I think this requires more thorough definition. Obviously you can be inefficient without being stable. E.g. I could drive my car at 5 miles an hour to work which would neither be efficient nor stable.
> still extremely simple to deploy

Hardly. PHP-FPM is a confusing mess to set up, and you're still stuck working around the massive mistake of binding routing to the file system.

And I hope you don't try to just rsync up your changes afterwards without some form of blue/green deployments.

> the documentation is good

There is.. a lot of it, for better or worse. Let's compare the functions for concatenating lists between PHP[0] and Scala[1]. The PHP version is way longer and contains several examples.. that are only needed in the first place because the PHP's array type is so messy and tries to fill so many different uses. Meanwhile, Scala's gets to the point, describes how to use it, and uses the rest of the screen estate to help me navigate to anything else that might be relevant.

> It has clean lambda functions that you can pass around easily and has for more than a decade.

Looks like they did finally clean up their baffling closure binding syntax in 7.4... unless you want to bind anything by reference.

That said, it is pretty hilarious to me that they decided to make strings and arrays of strings callable rather than add some kind of first-class function reference syntax. Surely that won't have any confusing interactions with namespaces...

> Type hinting has been in place for a long time

Not of much use without generics. `array` isn't a particularly useful type. There does seem to exist an RFC[2], but it looks dead in the water (no voting table, and the stated vote goal was years ago).

> The only downside of PHP that I can still point to is that it's sometimes hard to remember the function parameter order for some of the common string and array functions.

It's not really PHP's fault itself, but Laravel is a miserable mess of implicit magic. The fact that people often seem to hold it up as the gold standard of PHP doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the community.

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge
[1]: https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/collection/Seq....):Seq[B]
[2]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generics
I like the idea of this, however I do not like that you are expected to keep the master key in your drawer somewhere. It’s like writing your master password on a sticky note and putting it in a drawer.

I know there is always a risk of forgetting your master password but keeping it only in your brain gives you the most protection. I suspect law enforcement would have an easier time compelling you to give up your DiceKey object than forcing you to repeat your brain key. However I am not a lawyer and would be interested to hear more from those who know more about this kind of situation.
Or both, as in the case of Netflix's new semi-child abuse documentary.
Markets in everything: The price of ransomware will reach equilibrium when the cost of paying the ransom becomes equal to the cost of paying for cybersecurity. Then we're back to "to pay or not to pay" once again being a merely moral/ethical issue.
Mystery of Pakistan's falling Covid-19 death rates
Had they spent the money on ops or DoD compliant hosting infra, I would agree the long-term gains offset the near-term losses.

But as an Investor, it concerns me they spent $900M on Sales and Marketing in the Gov sector over 2 years.

That is essentially a lobby-dependent business model with long-term success contingent on the currently elected administration.
Justin Wilson was most certainly a real Cajun, and his cooking was authentic. The Wikipedia bio article[1] seems pretty accurate and fair. His TV persona was an act, but it was a genuine caricature of Cajun fun and humor. Funny as hell, and my kids love watching recordings on Youtube.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Wilson_(chef)
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Signal is encrypted at rest. It uses a special encrypted version of Sqlite. https://www.zetetic.net/sqlcipher/
Why RTFA when I can make baseless speculations? :D
It is stored locally, although only temporarily. I rarely connect my phone to the internet and still can scroll through quite a bit of message history.
> the users imagination doesn't always produce the expected output

That's not a bug, it's a feature that literature uses quite a lot.

> You're never going to have a text based racing game

Actually thinking and typing fast in some MUDs can be vital.

> There's a reason why almost all text based MUDs have a graph or grid based world and turn based gameplay: because that's all you can really do with a text based interface

Roguelikes are turn-based, but MUDs are semi-real time (sort of turn based with short time limit).

The grid layout is essentially historical in the sense that users have certain expectations. Probably one could use GPS coordinates and Logo-style commands, nowadays even a rusted Raspi could handle that.

But builders and makers are, I believe, more interested in world-, story- and character- building than in technical feats like this. And so are the players.
Yeah, didn't really understand the 90 minute limitation. Wouldn't it be better to allow the guest to play as long they want once the guided session is over.
You should probably be looking at the core Laravel framework repository, not the "new project"-boilerplate.

https://github.com/laravel/framework/graphs/contributors

To me it seems like the ecosystem is growing rapidly. There are at least three large conferences each year, a handful of established podcasts and an excellent video tutorials site. There are also a number of paid services like Vapor for running Laravel on Lambda, Forge for easier server management and Laravel Shift for automatic version upgrades.
... and I'd love to have this if it just modified the firmware of my camera to act as a webcam native webcam.

As is, this is a cumbersome kludge.

Perhaps future cameras will have this option. But I doubt it. My expectation is that the camera market will continue to shrink as companies like Sony have completely missed the concepts of ecosystems, open standards, compatibility, and people wanting to do anything Sony didn't predict. At the same time, the imaging market will continue to grow with lower-quality but standard, compatible devices like cell phones and webcams.

It also leaves most A-mount users out. Even cameras one generation back are left out (A99, A77). Sony basically shat on its entire userbase in the move to E-mount. Perhaps Canon, Nikon, or Panasonic will pick them up. But I doubt that too.

There's an increasingly narrow niche which big cameras are forcing themselves into. Older users aren't always moving from dying mounts. Newer users expect apps and interoperability. I'm wondering how much longer this whole house-of-cards will last.

Olympus just gave up claiming "market conditions." The problem is always outside....
Not just in silicon valley.
Why would it be scary?
> In an alternate universe, an application would call connect('google.com', secure=true), and the OS would make an encrypted connection

IBM's mainframe operating system z/OS (formerly known as MVS) has a feature called AT-TLS (Application Transparent TLS).

With AT-TLS, you can configure operating system policies to intercept TCP socket calls from an application, and automatically add TLS to the sockets. That way, some legacy app, which knows nothing about TLS, can have TLS support added to it, without any modifications required.

There is an IOCTL that can be called on the sockets, which can find out whether AT-TLS is enabled, what certificate is being used, etc. So applications can easily be enhanced to detect whether AT-TLS is enabled on a connection and respond differently.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/...
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"Dogmatic loons", like, say, Nelson Mandela?
Maybe you're thinking of "inflammable," which due to confusion has mostly been shortened to "flammable."
> So this expectation is that Americans know all the possible felonies the people around them are committing?

When relevant case-law is taken into account, it appears that is not the case. Courts require active concealment of a known felony for conviction under that statute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony#cite_note...

In this case, a CISO certainly is aware of the CFAA.
iOS and Android native apps with their walled gardens.
Fair enough, in that sense yes I agree that a lot of people don't have a good understanding of the inner workings of their government.
To be fair though, Telegram users aren't exactly an unbiased sample.
Signal does encrypt your messages locally. Also Android supports file encryption you don't need to use full disk encryption anymore. Also I think the policy has changed in Android 10.

> All compatible Android devices newly launching with Android Q are required to encrypt user data, with no exceptions.
There may be specific fit issues for a new artificial leg. Most prosthesis require quite a bit of fit adjustment.
File at the end is the best. It just gets lost otherwise.
I think Jack Gallant and colleagues get it right by basically applying the method that works well in machine learning. Train your model on one dataset, and then validate on a held out test set. That should get rid of the majority of all statistical artifacts (as long as you do the split right of course).
I think this is probably better characterized as "efficiency erodes resilience". You can have stability if there are no perturbations. However, if there are, and you have optimized for a regime where there are not, you are very exposed to risk. This is pretty much Table's notion of antifragility as well as the study of resilience engineering.
What if it were a federal criminal offense to pay ransom?
With long prison sentences for any individual convicted of participating in or having knowledge of a payoff?
And the government was serious about tracking down and prosecuting anyone who did so? Nobody would pay ransom, and, at least in countries with such a law, these extortion gangs would stop bothering.
Modern benchmark between kafka pulsar and rabbitmq – kafka still dominates
There was another there major difference between the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands and the Marianas Turkey shoot. The US went from flying the vastly inferior Wildcat to the mostly superior Hellcat. Japan wasn't able to produce a more modern fighter than the Zero in significant numbers for the rest of the war and by 1944 it was obsolete.
Mostly people aged 18-25.
I largely came to the same conclusion, including going back to Redux. I have found using Apollo for client side state very cumbersome and even difficult. You really do need to understand their cache well, and I also dislike having to deal with things like __typename, which I feel is an implementation detail that unfortunately gets foisted onto the end developer. Sometimes __typename is a royal pain in the butt.

The article touches upon current Redux as well, such as when it says "If done right, it can definitely be a breeze to work with", which I agree with. And the "if done right" part has gotten a lot easier, as Redux has finally decided it's ok to provide opinionated approaches that guide you towards that happy path. I really do think if Redux hadn't been so concerned about being opinionated way back when, it'd be far better received today. But better late than never.
Typically the good thing with ammonia is that it's smell is easily detectable by people well below it's toxicity level. I don't think this helps if the tank us crushed and you are trapped inside an upside down car right next to it though.

I think for the most part it is more interesting as a energy storage from renewable overproduction than in cars.
I don't think matrix can scale to hundreds of thousands of users in one channel at the moment.
The problem is you can only slow down if everyone else does too, unless you're willing to step down in "class" which a lot of people have trouble with.
If you spill it on accident on your way to surrender it, it would be really unfortunate.
Right, there has to be some boundaries defined for what's in "reason".
Also these observations came from the WISE satellite.
Bullets are cheap. There's a reason pretty much every 3rd world air force slings gun ponds under its ground attack aircraft. No reason to spend a multi-thousand dollar bomb when 20mm will do.
Right! It costs millions to certify something for flight even if it's been in commercial use for years. Even for something as simple as swapping a spinning disk for an SSD.
And it has to be verified in-situ with the other components of the system. And separate testing and documentation is required for each airframe variant ("Type certificate"), so a swap for a 747 and 737 even though they're both Boeing products requires separate testing and documentation. There could be THOUSANDS of pages of documentation for a non-trivial product.
Nice for those who haven't seen it but this has been on here lots of times previously over the last 12 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=500+mile+email
Considering the number of vulnerabilities frequently found in Wordpress and its popular plugins, rglullis' admin skills would not be the first thing I'd personally put the blame onto.
Maybe it'd work for large trucks in very cold environments. Not much around in an accident and it handles lower temperatures.
"Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages?"

One thing that PHP does better than any other language for web development is ease of deployment. It isn't really anything inherent in the language that makes it easier to deploy, it's simply that hundreds, probably thousands of web hosts have made deployment easy for PHP. Also, the PHP community has documented deployment and installation scenarios thoroughly.

Deployment might sound like a small piece in the overall picture of building a web app but it is actually hugely important. If you want your users to self-install your web app, or to give them the widest possibly choice of deployment hosts, then PHP beats every other language by a mile.

I always mention this quote from blogger and programmer Jeff Attwood on this topic of depolyment:

"If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever code that runs on virtually every server in the world with zero friction or configuration hassles, PHP is damn near your only option." [1]

Guess when he wrote it? 2012.

Sure, we've got VPS and even more hosting options, but in 2020 what other languages can match or even surpass PHP's ease of deployment? Can you give instructions to your relatively non-tech users and tell them how to successful deploy your web app with the same ease as PHP?

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/