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Rod Holt helped Woz build the Apple ][, and was then responsible for its design and manufacture,
he was one of three VPs when Apple incorporated (Jobs and Woz were the other two) and he was in charge of the Macintosh group when it launched.

An old engineer friend of his asked Holt about several topics, and I think his answers were interesting, including what was baked into early Apple that made it succeed at what it was trying to do over the years.

https://louisproyect.org/2015/08/28/steve-jobs/

(The beginning of the blog post are comments by the old friend about the Jobs movies, followed by Holt's two replies).
I value one anecdote from a proper journalist more than a thousand Reddit posts. It might be the case that half of Reddit's users are actually truthful, but since half are pathological liars, I consider the site entirely worthless for this sort of information. There's no surefire way to know which half is which.
The last couple months has done more damage than good to me. I'm that type of person who'll lose muscle quickly if stops working out for mote than 2 weeks.

It's not about you. It's about everyone else.

How can someone be so selfish and self-absorbed that they think their "muscle mass" is more important than the health of hundreds or thousands of other people?

I know this question may violate some HN policy, but I can't help but ask: What's wrong with you?
One wormhole with stable end points never causes time travel. You get a privileged reference frame type of FTL travel, which is completely safe. The issues arise when both spaceships have the ability to go faster than light in their own reference frame.
An extension of this is the notion of emergency authorities and people’s perception of the weight they carry.

An emergency is an emergent situation, which must be new, evolving, and carry the risk of serious harm. Emergency orders are based upon the idea that executive authority must be wielded to quickly mitigate an emergency situation. But a key attribute of an emergency (by definition) is “new” - if emergency powers are extended month after month then they are based on a situation that is no longer an emergency.

Now before you get angry, consider that we can agree that COVID-19 is a serious threat that requires government action _without_ it necessarily being an emergency or emergent situation. The threat has long since emerged.

Now we have a lot of governors issuing decrees based on emergency authorities that they’ve been using for six months. This is quite simply a conflict with our basic notion of democracy. We do not have rulers, yet our governors are issuing rules purportedly carrying the weight of law with no oversight from legislature.

Whether or not you agree with the orders, I think it’s intuitively likely that you can see how this is essentially a disruption in the relationship between people and their government, and as such it’s at least understandable how many people would feel these orders carry no moral weight (even if they’re not thinking from a legal perspective). And so the existence of gray market gyms and parties is at least understandable, even if we don’t condone such behavior.
A clean and simple product UX != treating the customer well. Gouging their customers for repairs and being outright hostile to anyone other than themselves managing the device is not being customer-centered.
There's an option in your reddit settings to force them to serve you the old design rather than the redesign, which is remembered for future sessions. The old design isn't "mobile friendly", i.e. it requires a bunch of zooming in and out, but other than that it's completely functional, unlike the redesign which simply doesn't even work on mobile.
Huh, I should have done more reading.
Cooperating with Bezos is a different thing though. It would be like nursing an injured rattlesnake back to health.
MSFT has business interests in China and ORCL doesn't.
I always thought they should have called them “authorized” activities and businesses. The optics wouldn’t allow it, but it would have been more accurate all around and avoided these misunderstandings.
It’s most likely not. Doctors in Cuba self-report aggregate statistics and are penalized if they underperform. That tells you all you need to know.

https://www.econlib.org/about-that-cuban-life-expectancy/

Independent studies have shown giant anomalies in other metrics that suggest the favorable metrics are being fudged:

https://mobile.twitter.com/wwwojtekk/status/1233017228792082...

Also a lot of reports that women are pressured to get late term abortions if there are any potential issues observed with the fetus, as this will ensure it doesn’t count as a mortality and not hurt that clinic’s stats.
I don't get the cynicism either. In the US cigarette usage has gone down tremendously through the decades as laws have gotten more restrictive and advertising more out there. I'm sure I would eat less junk food if it was less accessible.
Also for trying, back in 2014, to grab the lease on launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, which ultimately went to SpaceX, without having an orbital rocket to launch from it -- not then, and not now.
I was reminded of this website I used a lot in the past (back when game manuals were a thing, back when you might pick up a used game without it). I was reminded of this when writing the article in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210766
Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful for us to hear you raise these points. The workouts are designed to meet your personal fitness level - the resistance bands can be swapped out easily, and different parts of the game focus on strength and cardio, meaning you can set the workouts to the goals you're chasing.

As for the story - you say you want to fight other players - what does that game look like to you? We're always interested in these ideas for future game titles we can bring into the platform. If you'd like to join our Discord channel I'd be happy to chat about this further in there.
I wouldn’t say clothes-sorting is just a nice-to-have - imagine you could get a third machine that sat next to your washer and dryer, and it folded clothes for you. I bet a lot of people would buy one, if it cost a similar amount to a washer or dryer. Lots of money in that hypothetical product. The problem is that our technology isn’t good enough to build it.
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"Knowledge should be free."
- Isildur
It’s a bubble. Just remember, the investor is the customer and the stock price is the product.
The title is a little misleading, this is happening in the state of Oaxaca only. I guess that if it works the government is going to try and implement it across the whole country.
> how is a gymgoer endangering you

Perhaps they are an essential worker, and don't have the option to stay at home?

Perhaps they have medical issues that leave them immunocompromised and may require hospitalization, putting them at a high risk of death from exposure to COVID patients?

Perhaps they are unemployed or at risk of unemployment due to pandemic restrictions, and the irresponsible behavior of people who are too cool to do body weight exercises at home could directly harm them by lengthening the time these restrictions are necessary?

"It's none of your business if other people break the law in a way that harms others."
Ideally yes but you don’t need to be a good leader to fulfil the roles of management. Good leaders are in the main better managers but the percentage of the population with that leadership instinct is rare enough that it can’t really be a prerequisite for management roles.
I think one of the problems is that we don't have the right people working on the right problems.

Self-driving cars seem to have absorbed most of the world's high-level robotics efforts for the past decade or more. I was always skeptical of that application because my experience has shown that weak-AI works best when there's a human backup and/or the stakes of an error are not too high. That isn't the case with self-driving cars where a lethal mistake can occur in less than a second.

I think we would be much better off today if much of the self-driving car effort had been focused on household utility robots and/or business applications. No it wouldn't be "saving lives", but it would be saving countless life-hours spent on mind-numbing tasks that are a major reason for why life is so unpleasant for so many people.
It seems like the responsible thing would be to create stability, not chaos by dumping money into unproven ventures that everyone could lose on.

If that’s not the case, please explain.
A big problem with Kodi is that it lacks official things like Netflix, Hulu, etc. Hell you can't even cast to it properly. It's great for local content, and for a while a few years back there were really good pirate services for streaming basically anything, but overall it is very disappointing and you end up having to bolt Chrome and struggle through a shitty browsing experience to watch a lot of stuff.
This kind of answer shows why covid is hitting so hard in america. "I do whatever I want, you do whatever you want"

it's not about the individual, what he wants or do. It's about this individual spreading the virus to the community later on.
Partial damage to a paper book leaves the rest of it functional. Partial damage to a digital book leaves it unable to boot.
Quantum reality is either weirdly different or it collapses
60% curmudgeonliness

20% none of their friends are on it

7% they heard it captures your clipboard constantly, must be another of these spying and tracking apps

5% they heard it's got weird moderation with rules like 'no disabled people on the front page'

3% they think limited-content-length platforms prevent complex, nuanced messages and are corrosive to the national discourse

3% they heard it was all 13 year olds lip-syncing and that only perverts want to watch that

2% they only use Theora videos on FreeBSD on their OpenMoko FreeRunner
They are doing exactly zero of those things, because of prohibition. That's the whole point of the article -- if you prohibit something, it'll happen anyway but quality will go down. A much better approach would be to require the things you mentioned (like my area did) by law instead of a blanket ban.
I miss the days of rattling off detailed email responses with practically zero typos on the physical keyboard, on a touchscreen I'm constantly checking for incorrect Autocorrect replacements.
I carried two phones (an Iphone and a blackberry) for about a year before dropping the Blackberry, and I'd had about 10 different Blackberry models over the years.

That said, I don't think going back to physical is worth it anymore, I found that getting a slightly larger touch screen phone made the keyboard just big enough that my typing became sufficiently accurate that I can live with it.
If you want to go a bit off-piste, 20th and 21st century liturgical choral music is an excellent choice.

As a bonus: gigs are free and in most cities happen every night (at evensong, which also comes with free mindfulness and meditation sessions, as well as a chance for a singalong with the crowd.)

The choirs range from school and college scholarship level to outright professionals and they will often have albums where you can explore their repertoire, and branch off from there. In essence: they put together the need-to-know pieces on your behalf, which assists massively in increasing buff-level.

I find the ensemble of male voice to also be incredibly relaxing:

https://open.spotify.com/track/12hKtoAt7uiDgqIzrqWWr4?si=O8d...
Great feedback, thanks for sharing!

As for the haptics, check our stretch goals on Kickstarter! It's something we're very interested in...
Can you expand on "testing is a mess"? Do you mean testing your own DAGs and operators?
Glass and screens on modern phones are amazingly durable now. I don't even bother with screen protectors now since under normal usage they're virtually unscratchable.
On top of this, v.reddit.com is abysmal. Videos stop streaming, the cursor is impossible to use, I don't know how its allowed to exist in its current state.
And if they go up to someone like a cashier?
Should any state entity be this large?
Why is the human vagina so big?
I see a lot of outdoor gyms in parks and what not. Outdoors is not only safer but also more pleasant. And if it rains a bit running through the rain will give an extra feat you don’t find in regular gyms. Ok, kidding about the rain but I prefer doing my workouts outside the gym when the weather permits. Calistenics aka exercises with the weight of your body are quite efficient and don’t make one look like an ogre
I wonder if these web design trends are more or less annoying than the Flash banner ads/MSIE popup ads.
you think the reason that a drug fails a clinical trial is because of ... competition? Like, Bayer's aspirin is just going to stop curing headaches because it's angry that J&J is developing Tylenol? A drug that doesn't work isn't going to start working if it becomes open source, that's not really how chemistry works
Hi there, Martin from Quell here. Thanks for sharing these insights!

To your first point, you're right—this is definitely not true for everyone. As a keen cyclist, I can say that getting out on my bike is definitely something I look forward to, too (less so now that London has returned to being one big puddle, but still)! We'll look into adjusting this to be more open-minded. You're also correct that, at present, it's not a full body workout. We're currently expanding the range of movements you can perform in the game to make it much more dynamic, including ducks and dodges, thereby providing a more complete experience here.

I love the idea of partnering up with a company like AltheanX. We're definitely keen to get people working out, and we know that our product can't be a replacement for a full gym, so partnerships seem like a brilliant way to provide a more complete workout.

Lastly, we too have enjoyed our experience with VR workouts. One of our early tests was to include wrist weights with games like Beat Saber, which makes it a much more challenging proposition. One problem that I'm sure you've encountered too, though, was that once the action got intense, we found the headset to be too sweaty and cumbersome for the experience to stay enjoyable for long. That's actually one of the big reasons why we started with a more traditional screen-based setup, but as VR lovers ourselves we're definitely keen to move into this space as people's adoption and comfort when using this amazing technology increases!
What's your threshold for "putting others at risk"?

Zero tolerance?

One potential infection of a 300million+ population?

One potential death of a 300million+ population?
I've identified my biggest pain point when these companies try to pull shit like this: it is the audacity for them to pretend like they have some authority to decide anything for me (as a user), or even nudge me in any directions, be it in content, ways to use their service, etc. ...

Dear Reddit, (and the likes),

You are a service company. You provide me a service. You are not an authority, or a thought leader, or anyone who's opinion I for some reason automatically respect or am interested in. You simply make it easier for me and users like me, to aggregate information and to share data, in a format that we like. You did not create that format out of thin air and you do not own it. It is we, the users that told you that this is the format we wanted to use, by going to your website and not competitors. You A/B-tested it from us. This does not give you any authority or right to pretend like you know what is better for us. You are simply a utility provider. Start acting like one. I do not care about your opinion about anything, let alone how I should use your site, what I should read, what I should buy or not. I just want a service, the aggregation of information. The utility of it. I don't care about how you make money (none of the users really do, let's be honest). If you stop giving the utility, I will go somewhere else. If you can try to provide this utility and also making money in the process - good for you. If you ask me to pay for your service, a fair (!) price, I will gladly do, like I do for any utility like electricity, clean streets etc.

The more shenanigans like this you pull, the faster the decentralized versions of those utilities (a useful forum for quick information, in your case) will come up and eat up into your revenue.
What else is Qatar doing?

What does Qatar do to a person who is confirmed infected? Does the same action occur to someone with the flu?

What is Qatar asking it's population to do differently today, compared to this time a year ago? Does that have any meaningful impact on transmission rates?
For ICBC, it's a state-owned institution. And a bank. The accounting is special for banks (and mostly beyond me). Some say, it's doubly "special" for companies like ICBC.

For Vodafone, that number was a special one time gain from the sale of Verizon Wireless. In 2014, they showed an operating loss of £3.9B (but a overall gain of £11B because of income tax credits -- hoorah for financial engineering?)
To be fair I use Google Maps like I would Yelp to find local businesses so I think I'm part of the user-base that's ruining it for the rest of us. My workflow is something like searching "restaurants" panning around, looking at reviews, and then hitting the call button and it seems like they're catering to my use-case because it's monetizable.
Thanks very much for explaining!

I'm not entirely sure which part of my comment you're arguing against:

> How is a gymgoer endangering you, if you are staying 6ft from all others, wearing a mask, washing your hands and not touching your face?

Are you saying that as long as the measures you listed are followed, any additional shutdowns required by the local/state government are unreasonable and are okay to ignore?

If instead you're saying that the measures you listed satisfy the local/state requirements for gyms, then I'm confused because I wouldn't expect the gym to be shutdown in the first place.
https://www.accurics.com/blog/products/terrascan-opa-policy-...
Lucky to have a mild case in mid-March. Would really suck to have to worry about it for six+ months.

I’m older but in decent shape. Had the blahs and burning sandy then stiff lungs for a week. Definitely been sicker though. Basically shook it off.

Been taking vitamin D3 for a few years. That week I took 5-10k D3 a day, 1k% vitamin C + zinc, etc think airborne or Emergen C +. Believe it was what gave me the edge. By coincidence I take a baby aspirin as a blood thinner; it can help avoid blood clots.

During the worst I’d say I lost 50% of my lung capacity. About 2% of the irritated lungs persists, goes up to 5% if I drink too much or don’t take my vitamins. I don’t notice anymore unless I pay attention.
As Kai Ryssdal likes to say, "the stock market is not the economy". https://www.marketplace.org/2019/09/30/the-stock-market-is-n...

I don't think that's ever been any clearer than it is now.
Maybe but I hope they do it better than apple maps. I think the colors on apple maps can be misleading. For example, I live near the end of a bypass so there is a decent amount of grass around the on and off ramp. In Apple maps that is a dark green. When I see green in a map I think of parks. In fact, looking at the whole town I live in, I see most of the area is a shade of green. I guess the light green is farm land? but some of that light green as splotches of a medium green in it which I have no idea what that might be. Trees?
No, it's mostly multiple expansion.

You'll see a lot of responses across other threads claiming it's due to the low interest rate environment (the justification). That plays a role, sure. Interest rates have commonly been near zero for the better part of the past decade though. So why was Apple's PE ratio ~11-13 previously while interest rates were very low (0% or sub 1%) with a quasi normal economy, and now its PE ratio is more like 30-35 during a crushing pandemic recessionary environment while interest rates are zero? Apple's operating income for the past four quarters is not considerably higher than it was in fiscal 2016, so why is the stock three to four times higher? Surely their growth rate must be extreme right now, to justify that radical increase (answer: nope). What must the future growth expectations be to justify a 300% stock increase; that Apple's enormous profit will double soon? (nope, it's not gonna happen)

It has more to do with a stock market mania that has taken over, than it has to do with interest rates, at this point. The interest rate explanation maybe gets you to second base, the rest of it is mania. You see that represented in the ever expanding dotcom bubble style extreme valuations that are increasingly common (SHOP, TSLA, NVDA, AMD, DOCU, etc). NVDA's context for example will remind of CSCO in 1999-2000 (except NVDA is growing slower today than CSCO was then). You'll see it in the pop-celebrity status of people like Dave Portnoy (who suddenly decided to become a trader with little experience). Whereas such extreme valuations were not so common three to eight years ago (circa 2012-2017), while we had a quasi normal economic situation and 0% rates (or otherwise near 1% or lower) as well. All that said, nobody should ever doubt how far a mania can go in regards to pushing valuations toward the moon.
> I don't understand why we don't (as a society) fund more scientific research, in general.

Humans are much better at handling short-term projects than long-term projects. There are many reasons for this including, but not limited to, human psychology, harder to assess risks and payoffs, and limited human lifespans/workspans (e.g. leadership changes every 4-8 years and therefore so will the direction of the project). These issues are very prevalent when, for instance, the development of a new antibiotic can take up to 20 years.

In addition, plenty of science results in duds. We see and hear about the successes, but we don't really see the hypotheses that are failed to be proven and discarded, which I imagine are the vast majority. Most people are not scientists, and this kind of process is foreign to them.
I use Netflix on the Fire TV Stick (not through Kodi).
This is a their answer:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640?hl=en
That might be what they tell investors but I disagree that they've gotten good at policing accounts. I moderate a large Facebook group and we get flooded with join requests from obviously fake users all the time. Most of them have a handful of southeast Asia friends, some random highly geographically distributed friends in the English speaking world, and stock or stolen photos. The real giveaway is the programmatic nonsense responses they give to the membership questions. I've been reporting these accounts to Facebook a long time and they persist, often with join dates making them multiple years old.
More likely, they knew the hardware couldn’t really run much more.

The first iPhone had 128MB of RAM and ran at 412 MHz, underclocked from 620 MHz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation) ), and there was disbelief that what they showed could be built at all at the time with the advertised battery life.

They likely also didn’t want to commit yet to an API for third-party apps, as they didn’t know what was reasonable there.
How is that? Enabling VPN should require some knowledge still, so why would it help if an unauthorised person accessed your device?
I'm convinced this guy never went to gym.
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A good time to try “additive grading”
Research has (correctly) been outsourced. If you have a good idea, go prove it and then you can sell it to Acme for $100m. That's a much better deal for Acme because they only need to buy things that work. And it's a much better deal for you (you get $100m to share with your investors instead of a $10 dollar voucher [0] for a $100m idea).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Hall