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Really. As the end user I don't want to pay Apple a 30% sales tax on all my apps, content and service purchases on a device that I already paid a thousand dollars for.

90% of the reason people are even talking about alternative app stores is because this 30% is extortion made possible by excessive monopolistic power provided by tight vertical integration. If it was 10% no one would blink an eye and it would still be massively profitable for Apple. They're just too fucking greedy, and the amount of their apologists here is insane.

The collective hypocrisy of chanting for things like the right to repair while not even recognizing the right to install arbitrary apps on a computing device you paid for in full is just mind boggling.

Americans trust everyone with a fucking gun but oh no, being able to install a non-Apple-approved app or - gasp - use a non-apple payment method - will collapse the whole ecosystem. Haha.
It's not "making" driving suck, it's allowing driving to suck as a result of market forces. We could stop forcing restrictions on property owners that prevent the natural, market-driven move to mass transit as density increases.
What about BitChute?
White House announces $1B investment for AI and quantum computing hubs
Thanks for the kudos! We've been seeing a lot of talk about this today - I'm glad we can be there for folks now that they need us :D
Samuel exists as a German name and is pronounced in a German way, but as far as I know the short version does not exist as a German name and I would try to pronounce it as an English name when I see it.
The 'accredited investor' definition is absolutely & literally a "wealth test".

It does not ask if you have legal counsel. Indeed, even being an investment-specialized, bar-licensed lawyer yourself, drafting agreements upon which other 'accredited investors' depend, wouldn't make you 'accredited'!

But having $1,000,000 in the bank would. Prior wealth.
Wait until you hear that the marginal income tax rate is about the same BC Canada as it is in California and you don't have a +$500/month health insurance payment to make yourself or through your employer.

The bad deal that american's get for their taxes is really sad.
Their hardware is great, but pricey. Used server can be had for a lot cheaper and you can get the same functionality with Xpenology. Not sure the electricity savings outweighs the upfront hardware costs.
Not widely known is that if all the HFCs currently in use end up vented, it will produce as much greenhouse effect as all the CO2 currently in the atmosphere, and do it orders of magnitude longer than the CO2.

We all thought that HFCs would save the world from the Ozone Hole, not realizing what a disaster they would turn out to be. Specify refrigeration equipment that uses ammonia or propane refrigerant.
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Prefer personal blog, if you are worried about the reach, post on both. I think Medium even still allows you to mark a post as a copy of your original, so it sets a canonical url reference on it.

I would not trust Medium, especially long-term, and it already has quite a bad reputation in some circles (i.e. I personally tend to avoid Medium links if they don't come well-recommended). If they change in a direction you don't like, you've tied your writing to them - your own domain is a lot more flexible and safe in that regard. On the other hand, people do report larger reach on Medium if they aren't already established. Crossposting gives you access to that, while also maintaining your own place on the web.
You're right — there are new limitations, which I overlooked at first. But it appears those don't apply to R10 and larger lots, so it's not a complete prohibition: https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-08/exhibit...
Having seen people die - dying is something that you should if not fear, then consider carefully. We live in a society that actively frowns on allowing a humane exit and would like to prolong life at any cost. Make your decisions up front, and document them. Figure out what you want done in the face of laws that might not agree with you, and how to get it done.

As for not being there - you still are. You have touched innumerable lives, for better or worse, as you live. You shape those lives by what you do, and you live on in the effects you had.

No more HN or chocolate though. I'll miss chocolate.
It annoyed me when I wanted to see the list for a single language.
I would suggest them to not install apps unless it was recommended by someone they trust and they were confident that it wasn't junk.

You mean like friends recommending Firefox and someone naturally going to Google to search for “Firefox” and the top link being malware? If someone recommended an app and they found a fake version on the third party App Store how would they know the difference?

How has that worked out for the past 30 years on computers where we are always hearing about yet another ransomware attack?

The point is about choice and freedom.

You mean like “freedom” to choose an Android over an iPhone?

We get to make the rules of the economy we want to operate in. The entire purpose of the government is to serve our needs

Actually you don’t. The executive branch is not chosen by “the people” it’s chosen by the Electoral College which has gone against the popular vote twice in the last 20 years.

The Senate is chosen by the states where each state regardless of population gets two Senators. 46% of the Senators represent around 25% of the population.

The judicial branch is chosen by the two least representatives parts of the government - the executive branch and the Senate.

If you think not being able to sideload apps on a device you didn’t have to buy is, I wonder how you feel about the “War on Drugs”, “War on Crime”, civil forfeiture, imminent domain used to take property and give it to more profitable businesses and the President unilaterally telling a business it has to sell to another company? Is this the government you want to give more power too?
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Not if Oracle and Sequoia have anything to say about that.
I'm sorry if my comment came across as condensending. That was not my intention. I addressed the other points in your commment in my much longer comment above.

To be honest, I assumed you were making an anthropomorphising comment, suggesting that GPT-3 learns like a child would learn. Sorry if that wasn't what you meant. I'm used to seeing comments like that (on HN in particular) so I guess I jumped to conclusions.

Anyway I guess I took your comment about not reading linked papers personally and you took my comment about GPT-3 not being a child personally. And the other poster pounced on my comment as if they had something to win and I reacted to it angrily. This is not a very good conversation and I haven't done my due dillience to keep it civil. I'm sorry we couldn't have a very constructive conversation this time. Maybe next time.
Careful with this reasoning. It could be that those who insist on TDD are simply the loudest or most confident or whatever, and therefore are more often in a position to advance themselves. "Their stuff works better" isn't necessarily the link between "TDD" and "make more".
The article links to another one describing the changes coming with C# 9.0 in .NET 5.

As somebody who used to use C# extensively, I find it somewhat shocking how complex, and even convoluted, the language now seems to have become.

C# was a lean, but still very capable, language.

Competent programmers could quickly get a good grasp of it, and code written by one programmer could generally be understood very easily by others. That's what made it good for large projects with many developers.

But now, I'm not sure that that's the case any longer.

Even fundamental things like instance initialization and properties seem overly complex.

Hopefully it just looks worse than it actually is.
For me it all fits in that famous Rutger Hauer's monologue: "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain" - still freaks the hell out of me every time. Not that I think of my experiences as especially important, I mean I certainly had never seen C-beams glitter in the dark, but still the idea of all the stories and people I knew in a way dying with me, it just seems like such a horrible waste...
Not surprised, season 2 was rather lacking, especially after the amazing first season.

If you liked the story and idea I would recommend breading the Novel trilogy it's based on. Season 1 was fairly close to the first book while the second one was a really weird and IMHO badly done mix of the later two.
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> The construction costs are simply too high for a for-profit developer to be able to do it.

I don't know about Vancouver's specific problems. Why are the construction costs so high there?

In the Bay Area regulations, and tax laws that incentivize holding on to old housing, are largely to blame for the lack of housing supply.

> If I'm a renter I'd rather have my monthly rent go to back into the public purse to be re-invested in more public works than to some S&P500 listed REIT to pad some wealthy investors' dividends

Who in turn pay taxes on those dividends. Maybe increase those taxes, and taxes on the property itself.

> If housing development is such a good investment then of course the public should get in on it.

Lots of businesses are a good investment. That's not a good reason for the public sector to get into it.
tl;dr YouTube sucks in some regards but is in general better in every way than the alternatives.
Two that didn't make the list are Curiosity Stream:

https://curiositystream.com

for documentaries, and Nebula:

https://standard.tv/pages/nebula-creators

For a bunch of other content creators that may also be on YouTube.

There's various promo links where you can sign up for both at a discount:

https://curiositystream.com/legaleagle/
"Shuck" all of the drives into a Rosewill 4U chassis, if you dig around you can find them cheap open box on Amazon and sometimes even eBay. They're durable, pretty cheap and come with 8 3.5" bays.
By this logic, shouldn't a person be indifferent between 1) an accident where they die, and 2) an accident where they and their partner die, since "being dead is not an experience"?
I have thing thing. I think if you're going to punch holes in someones argument then you should also commit yourself to figuring out if it can saved. Otherwise you're just being an ass. That said one thing I'm aware of is one should be careful when giving advice that you aren't dragging their vision through the mud either.
> What are the odds of waking up? I think it's with 100% certainty that you become conscious.

I'm not sure what you mean here, can you explain what you mean by "you"? What remains to be "you" if your atoms are spread out (happens in life too), your memories are gone and your consciousness is also temporarily gone? Isn't it more like just random parts of the universe coming to life and turning into someone? In what way could it be "you"?
That's a fair argument. I'm not familiar enough with credit unions and how they are regulated to counter-argue.
I found this SICP guide helpful in terms of choosing which lisp to work through the book: https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile
I worked for Cleargraph, a startup which built a natural language query layer on top of RDBMSes and which we sold to Tableau. We reached the same conclusions as you: that such a system must properly handle ambiguous queries, and users need to explicitly understand the results they're viewing.

The way our system worked, broadly, was with a computational linguistics approach rather than an NLP one. We used an augmented bottom-up parsing algorithm to assemble a user's query into an AST, then translated that AST into both SQL (though that changed post-acquisition) and back into a canonical English-like query.

For ambiguous inputs, the parser would produce multiple candidate ASTs which we could offer to the user in the form of search results, for them to select the expression they preferred (solving your point 1).

The parser was constructed to use semantic information about the database schema to infer fields in the case of underspecification (handling your point 2). For example, we might understand about the `Series` table that `name` was the "display column", and should be the default field by which record-level results were displayed. Semantic information could, to various degrees, be inferred - always with the option to be manually overridden.

It seemed clear to us that a schema-agnostic approach to SQL generation would be untenable for a real product. Annotation of the schema over time (starting with basic information like field names, synonyms, and types, then adding semantic information like currency or unit labels) is key to letting a query generator produce sensible results to underspecified queries. For this reason alone, I'm skeptical of the quality of results that something like Photon can produce. Every schema differs in syntax and semantics. Perhaps a big enough corpus of schemas can allow for a generalized model. The more you can constrain the domain in building such a system, the better the results. (look at Statmuse [0]: pretty impressive query capability over sports facts).

[0]: https://www.statmuse.com/
I always thought there was a market for "semi-assisted living for non-disabled/non-seniors". If they put a cafeteria (maybe make the bottom floors of the building an open-to-the-public food court) and a centralized laundry service in a large apartment building, it changes the product offering dramatically.

You can monetize the service offering-- I could see charging a few hundred dollars more per month for an apartment that included a meal and laundry service plan. (obviously, some tweaks and fiddling would be necessary, but there's a lot of precedent on the math from college dorm plans out there)

The design of the buildings can be economized: instead of having to give up significant square footage for full kitchens, big pantries, and laundry rooms in most/every unit, you can provide a kitchenette and more livable square footage. You can likely cut out some of the high-amperage circuits necessary for cookers and dryers, and some plumbing for laundry rooms. I wonder if it would be viable to consider as an endgame if remote work hangs around after Covid and we end up with a glut of office-tower capacity, although I suspect the cost to retrofit in enough bathrooms/showers would vastly outweigh the cost of dropping in a dishwasher and stove into each unit.

Maintenance costs likely go down, as you don't have need to install or maintain dishwashers, ovens, in-sink food disposal units, and any sort of plumbing or electrical problems they cause. You have fewer noise, weird smell, and small-fire related complaints.

There's clearly a marketable business around "I'm waaaaay too busy doing Important Business Stuff/Living My Extreme Life/Some Other Self-Aggrandizing Fantasy to worry about the nuts and bolts of living" (See products like Soylent and Huel for people who find preparing food and eating a challenge) and this is just another step on the continuum.
smart card is kind of embedded system by it self.
Without getting into pedantic arguments. Ask any person to write down the name of the Trojan prince and you get Hector or Paris depending on who you ask. The origin is Greek even if the spelling more palatable for the modern English or Spanish speaker.
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Yes, they do. Do they mix perfectly? No. But a person + 30 lb bike at 20 mph is safer for pedestrians in a collision than 4000 lbs of rigid steel and plastic at the same speed or faster.

Note also that bike paths and rights of way are not designed in mostof the US to prioritize bikes OR walkers.

Imagine if roads and roundabouts were designed exclusively for bikes and pedestrians.
I'm looking forward to all that life-extension research that's happening right now. Reading all those research papers, it feels as if we're on the verge of being able to actually rejuvenate people for real. We've never came this close to uncovering the underlying mechanics of aging.

So, anyway, hopefully, in the near future, dying won't be compulsory.
You were never not born, and you will never be dead. The concept of time is meaningless if it's not experienced, so as far as you're concerned it won't exist, and what doesn't exist can also not be infinite.
The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software,” Karp wrote. “But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires.

The utter lack of self awareness is beyond shameful. As far as I can see Palantir wants to do with tech what Blackwater did with the armed forces and Peter Thiel is just a smarter version of Erik Prince.
You should be ashamed for your cherrypicking and barely masked accusations of racism and for (sort of) causing Godwin's law to be invoked. Did you learn the technique at your workplace, btw? I can very easily imagine that.
Yes but if it's not you anymore you can't connect empathically with the future you who doesn't know who they are anymore. It's a relief in a way but also scary at the same time.

I've seen a guy in his early 40s afflicted with earl onset dementia and alzheimer and he was loosing it little by little every day and it was terrifying. At some point he stopped knowing who he was and he seemed peaceful. He also could not communicate, care for himself, I don't think he couldn't even feel pain anymore.
That's probably fine for a software business where capex and COGS are peanuts. Unfortunately for me, that's not how my sector works. I repair and resell lab equipment while I do R&D towards making my own. I have five-figure revenue, capex, and COGS. I also have a day job because the side business doesn't support me yet.

Here's the rub: because of my capex and COGS, paying tax on profits is very different from paying tax on revenue. I get to pay tax on profits if I'm a business, but I have to pay tax on revenue if I'm a hobby (to put it crudely). If the IRS decides I am retroactively a hobby, my entire business goes from "growing steadily, maybe my day job soon" to "life lesson wipeout." So how do I make sure I'm a business not a hobby? The rules aren't much better than "I'll know one when I see one." They're a joke. A bad joke that keeps me up at night and stunts my business growth because I want to make sure my liquid assets could absorb the IRS dropping a bomb on the whole thing.

Tax ambiguity shouldn't be this kind of threat. My accountant isn't concerned, but he's also not on the hook, so I don't take much comfort in that.
>As for not being there - you still are. You have touched innumerable lives, for better or worse, as you live.

Okay, just getting real for a second, that is definitely a trick redefinition of "being there" to something other than what was originally being referred to. Kind of like if I stole a kid's lollypop, and when he complained, I told him that as long as he remembered the lollypop, he would still have it.
Indeed, and without free firmware and operating systems, the hardware is at risk of being locked down. The two concepts are linked.
I bought, for about £150-200 iirc, a 4U chassis with 16x 3.5" bays for this reason, reckoning it will always be enough (I won't fill them before the optimal £/TB disk size increases and I can go through upgrading them). It sits in strips of U-spaced punched aluminium, sideways on some quick and dirty shelving I built. That's not crucial except that you probably don't want it on the floor, and if you're going to rack mount it (as opposed to just sitting it on a shelf) the (width) sizing is relatively crucial.

It was cheap and easy, (the chassis much more expensive than the shelving/rack - but the value's in the hot swappable bays) think I'd recommend it.
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Only if they're wise enough to leave themself that wiggle room. It's a binary test, the 'accredited' can risk any amount.

So why not let anyone take a proportionate risk?
Exactly. I don’t necessarily care about the YouTube pet se, but I do care about the specific content from the creators I follow. And the content creators go to where the users are. And the cycle repeats.

And while some of the same types of content may be available on other platforms, the personalities are almost completely focused on YouTube.
Thank you! This is very informative
LBRY is the best YouTube alternative because it is the only one that fundamentally changes social video in a way that YouTube cannot copy.

LBRY uses a public blockchain to allow creators to retain complete control over their publishing identity. It also has a beautiful consumer app experience at https://lbry.tv, which was used by about 4M people last month (P2P apps at lbry.com/get).

You can read more in our IEEE paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9126007

Or dig into the specification and APIs at https://lbry.tech
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"some big sale hinged on, that subsequently no one has used"

Yes, but who cares if they used the feature or not (!?!) the question was, did the buyer think it was 'essential' for the deal to go through.

I mean, cynically of course, but it matters.
Then don't buy an iPhone.

There are hundreds of phone manufacturers who are more than happy to take your money.

But if you buy an iPhone you need to understand that you are in the minority i.e. that most of us want Apple to make changes like this.
Modern C++ has a lot of memory safe operations if you use them (smart pointers, atomics, actually using RAII properly and universally), although I'm not sure how much overhead they might add to a wasm blob. Rust seems almost perfect for it though, but no reason to discourage C++ people; it can be a relatively modern language if you let it.
How much of F#, .net and its data science stack can be divorced from Windows?
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Cloudflare sells DNSSEC services. They've supported DNSSEC for years, and adoption of DNSSEC in the US --- outside of people who get it by default with Cloudflare --- hasn't budged.

DoH breaks ISP DNS interception immediately, and for all zones, not just the rare DNSSEC-signed ones, by moving DNS resolution off-net to a more trusted provider.

The irony is, breaking NXDOMAIN interception is in fact a core use case of DNSSEC, and the protocol simply won't work for it, because the ocean needs to boil before every vector of the attack is closed. DoH went from the whiteboard to deployment in a tiny fraction of the time, and actually closes this hole decisively.
It always blew my mind that refrigerator gas used to murder people in their homes.

aka "The two were motivated by contemporary newspaper reports of a Berlin family who had been killed when a seal in their refrigerator failed and leaked toxic fumes into their home"
What he's really talking about are Christian or Judeo-Christian names.
This is the real lesson from DNT: you can not trust bad actors to be good.

Every time we see these voluntary initiatives about how advertisers are going to be responsible from now on... they can't. The industry will never be responsible, left to their own devices they'll use DNT as a tracking mechanism, and then justify it by saying that they need to remain competitive.

There is no such thing as a responsible advertising industry, it doesn't exist. They've demonstrated over and over again that they have to be treated like malicious actors, they are incapable of self-regulating.
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