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ICFP ML family workshop 2020 [video]
Absolutely love that toy, unfortunately they stopped producing DLCs for it some time ago to do something else... I wonder what that is.
How will this system know what due date is 'reasonable', and whom to assign it to? How does it know if someone is 'overloaded'?
Ah, I was wondering about OTG support, thanks for mentioning it!
> a single stolen credit card number may be considered $500 in fraud

that's still 2.2 million credit cards stolen.
map/filter and sum types are not about "fun", they're about correctness and expressiveness.

map/filter and their equivalent loops are both perfectly readable, but the latter involves more boilerplate.
I don’t buy kombucha but I’m vegan and since Amazon bought it the quality and diversity of the products i used to get has gone down, luckily local supermarket chains seem to have noticed and started to get more variety of those products since.
I'm sure I saw somewhere else that these allegations have only ever appeared on that website. Nowhere else has any other sources,
One that bothers me is "fake" precision when a writer has converted some units and not considered the original precision - and on the internet this is just the start of a broken-telephone game.

E.g some article about power generation starts with "12 Gigajoules" (probably +/- .1GJ) then is converted to "3.33 MWh", inevitably, this is either converted back a suspiciously accurate value of "11.8 Gigajoules" or someone doesn't understand the difference between MWh and MW and butchers it even and we get some completely ficticious value
Fridges are a huge opportunity - they could easily monitor the frequency of the mains supply and turn the pump off whenever load drops under 50hz.

Users would never even know, if they were factory wired with this kit the lights and any gadgets could continue to work.

Perhaps this should be something manufacturers have to include in order to get their A+++ energy rating.
Tomorrow’s Fortnite Update Not Coming for iPhones, Epic: 'Matter of Principle'
Right — this article seems pretty uninformed. I don't think there's a reason to believe Apple is any closer to launching a search engine now than they were 3 years ago.
You're confusing the terms with the politics.

There is a party which is anti-regulation because its constituents are business owners who incur the cost of it. But they incur the cost of both inefficient wasteful regulation and any legitimate pricing of externalities, so they oppose both. One is free markets and the other one isn't.

Just because politicians representing oil producers support both "free markets" and subsidies for oil companies doesn't mean subsidies for oil companies are a component of free markets. It just means that politicians are hypocrites.
Curious why this was down voted? Solar is now creating a lot of power in the sunbelt states but California has no way to harvest and store it for later use. Hawaii has a much more advanced approach on energy storage
I use firefox and I see the same behavior with web&app activity turned off, and youtube history turned off. Personalized frontpage when I visit youtube normally. If I open incognito then I get unpersonalized. If I then login inside the incognito session, then I get the personalized recommendations again. This confirms that the recommendations are tied to the account.
Why do you think this is arbitrary? It makes a lot of sense and is pretty obvious when you look across all apps. This tweet is trying to point out a "gotcha" when there is absolutely nothing inconsistent, unreasonable, or shocking here. Apple doesn't take a cut when you order things on the Amazon app, or when you buy stocks on Robinhood, or when you rent a car on Turo. Apple takes a cut from in-app purchases, but that is a term that Apple defines precisely. It obviously doesn't mean "any purchase in any app."
~1/5 of Apple's Services revenue comes from having google be the default search ($9-10B per year), so I wonder if this new search will coincide with them ramping up their own search ads business [https://9to5mac.com/2019/11/15/apple-ad-revenue/]
Breaks the warranty for sure.
It's the apple of cars.
Armed militias mobilize on social media hours before deadly Kenosha shooting
Less a tablecloth, more a placemat. And it is doubtful it was thrown onto the fire, where it would probably put the fire mostly out, rather than thrown into the fireplace to hang on something over the fire. There are also translation issues from royal to plain speak. Royals like this rarely did physical things. When the king is observed to "throw" something, it is more likely that he had it thrown by a servant who then placed the valuable object on a rack as planned. Readers of the time would not see a practical difference.
Is there a reason why app developers don't just make customers buy DLC and loot boxes from outside the app store? E.g. if a customer wants to buy a skin in Fortnite they just can't do it on the app store they need to go through the web UI.
How do you pronounce the word "disablable"?
Right, so it is a joke :)
The dividing line is digital versus non-digital content. That's why you can order physical goods from Amazon's app, but not digital content. It's not about enriching the core app experience; if it were, you could buy a video from the Amazon app, which doesn't enrich the core app experience of that app (you watch videos in the Prime Video app, which is separate).
A friend is reaching out to Ian Frazer, who authored a piece called "typewriter man" that references this claim, to obtain the provenance of it. I will return to provide an update (and update Wikipedia), if something of substance results.

If I don't return before the reply window closes for this thread, check Wikipedia for those who encounter this thread in the future.
Has anyone actually tested a warrant canary in court yet? It seems pretty transparent to me that if a court order says you can’t publish that it’s been received that also covers continuing to update the canary.
Opinion aside. You should be more polite!
The battery stopped holding its charge, so I looked around. I particularly wanted open formats, and I've been getting away from Amazon in general.
Innovation vs. Optimization
Yup. My uncle worked at a bank and had to deal with this quite often.

Even better, at least in the UK, the bank had tools to find out what the subscription was for and whose name it was in,
I genuinely don't know. Would you care to explain how procreate makes money if you do know?
My take is that the timing is perfect, so the rumor is likely true, but that Apple is going to screw it up royally.

This is a great time for a big competitor to start a search engine. Google's reputation and search quality aren't what they used to be. Google is also in a MS antitrust situation, where they have to fight with a hand behind their back.

If Apple were to work with others to set up some sort of "search foundation," I'll bet its search product could mop up a lot of the search market. As a result, Apple would have more leverage over Google, and more momentum. They'd have some measure of control over the user experience, even via a shared "foundation".

But that's not what is going to happen!

Apple management is going to release some weird, overly strategic product with Apple-branding all over it. Users don't want a "Siri" or "Spotlight" or "Apple" branded search engine (assuming Apple isn't so deliriously drunk on "clever strategy" that they don't make search an "app" instead of a webpage). It will also detract from Apple's "privacy" messaging, because they'll not only be pushing users aggressively to store all their data in iCloud, but also appear to have access to users' search histories.

I think Apple's search engine is going to fail horribly, despite fate giving them a golden opportunity to plough into Google's market. Apple is going to "sherlock" itself.
Regarding the first quote, not that it’s necessarily inherited, but if a tenant of an idea or movement is to not procreate, then at some point either no one will be left to procreate, or the only ones left will be those who disagree. Roughly speaking. I agree it’s not as clean of an argument as I thought when writing.

Regarding the second quote, we’ve seen what government policy’s effect is on reproductive limits, such as number of children laws in China (assuming you’re alluding your that, but perhaps not). Obviously there exist other policy options, but I’d rather not have my generation, or someone else’s, be a guinea pig for such policies. Further I don’t think any government should have a right to determine specific axis of child rearing, such as limiting offspring.
A look at the last 10 bear markets before 2020
There's a Serbo-Croatian proverb: "what you don't have in head you have in feet." That is, what you can't do by thinking a little bit means you must do by expending pointless effort instead.
This reminds me of the top comment on the original HN launch for Dropbox
I get their ads all the time on IG, but they should have advertised it to me as open, Qt powered, and ssh friendly.
Right, because the Kindle refreshes when you turn the page or use the menus. That would be a refresh every 30 seconds or so while you are using it.

If you are using it as a primary display on a phone showing dynamic content, you are going to be refreshing it as quickly as you can the entire time you are using it. I think modern low end panels can maintain about 7 fps or a refresh every 0.15 seconds. That's a two order of magnitude difference.
When I was traveling around China a few years ago it was extremely frustrating trying to use my phone's GPS+offline map. Realtime mapping in China is purposely offset by hundreds of meters making navigation quite challenging!!
Ironically a large part of my current job is writing code that runs on/interacts with a no/low code platform.

Could you please elaborate? What tools do you interact with? Is this mostly backend work, getting the data out of no code tools for further processing?
Nah, Windows is still Windows, no matter how much Linux they try to bolt on. Let me know when they've got proxy icons.
Besides all you said, Discord client is electron based bloated software. So it just seems a case when some engineers itching to write Rust and decided to make virtue out of it.
is asbestos really that bad? or is it the long term affects. if charlemagne just used it a show off thing in the diner would it have really mattered?
Build on this even in 1942, just prior to the discovery of the link to Mesothelioma, we were busily figuring out every use case we could for asbestos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8L8ooBSgQ&t=1m8s

Despite the recognition of Mesothelioma in the early 1900s it took almost 40 years to associate the disease with Asbestos.

My understanding is that this was due to the 10 - 40 year average post exposure timeline for Mesothelioma to show up.

If Asbestos was discovered today would our contemporary understanding of materials science & safety prevent us from spinning up factories and use cases like this?

(1) https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/asbestosis/sy...
I like the terminology "y-shaped recovery". Basically, everything goes down at the start, then some things (and new things) emerge, and other things never recover.

This seems like a more accurate way to think about the economy, in that new industries will emerge and some industries are going to never really recover.
Which other social networks?!

They would probably use 2 phones one iOS and one Android for FB apps cause utility of FB apps is just too big.
TS and Golang aren't comparable. I use both and I've never had a case where I needed to decide between the two. Golang is a high performance, modern language without the low-level or legacy headaches of comparably performant languages. Golang was written for an era where network communication and concurrency are commonly necessities and those use cases feel very natural. Typescript is JS (a conversation ending advantage in many cases) and so the concurrency model is amazing in some cases (e.g. when most of the work is async stuff like API calls) and pretty terrible in others (parallelizable computational work).

Golang was designed for getting shit done. If you are a big believer in OOP, then Golang feels underfeatured. But if you don't really care about OOP and you just want some of the advantages like basic inheritance, type safety, etc, Golang has everything you need to write performant, effective code quickly (there are use cases where that isn't true I'm sure, but, for me, Go's type system has been helpful and not a hinderance). There's nothing wrong with using the empty interface when you need to (any more than using any in TS, which you have to do in many applications).

I've found that Golang codebases are easy to pick up. I think everyone has some part of the Go style that they think is ugly (I 100% find append ugly), but for me this has mostly been inconsequential stuff - it has never gotten in the way of me solving business problems with high performance code. The tooling is the same (at least if you are using modules). It does its job well enough and then gets out of the way while you create business value.

I don't know your use case so this might not be relevant, but sometimes people will overuse for loops and slices when they might find it easier in Golang to pass around channels and use the pipeline pattern[1].

For me, Golang is like Python but with static typing and high performance. Fast to implement, easy to read, and focused on getting code out the door.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/pipelines
Marketing Ideas from Intercom’s Multi-Million Dollar SaaS Growth Strategy
Scott Galloway talked about this in a recent Pivot Podcast. He predicts it will launch after the US DOJ announces anti-trust actions against Google. If they do it soon, Google will just point to Apple to say "We aren't the only game in town... this $2 trillion dollar company just launched a search engine on a few billion phones/tablets/PCs around the world." They have reason to wait.
Sweden's got 10m people, and 87k cases as of mid-Aug. That's less than 1%, so claiming "herd immunity" is BS. They also have almost 6k deaths. Analysis from a month ago projects Sweden's GDP falling 4.8% in 2020, and eyes a 3.6% growth in 2021 - overall down 1.4% across both years.

Denmark's got a little over half the population, 1/5 the cases, 1/9 the deaths. Projected GDP is down 5.1% this year, up 4.0% next year, overall down 1.3%.

Norway's got half the population, 1/11 the cases, 1/22 the deaths. Projected GDP is down 4.7% this year, up 3.7% next year, overall down 1.2%.

If you're saying Sweden didn't lock down and achieved comparable economic results to their neighbours, I'd say yes you're right. A little bit worse on GDP, but very comparable. But they also had thousands more deaths, and tens of thousands more cases with uncertain futures, to no economic _benefit_ that I can see.

Sources:
- https://www.statista.com/topics/6123/coronavirus-covid-19-in...
- https://www.focus-economics.com/regions/nordic-economies
I have an iPad pro 11" (the last gen) and it's in par with professional drawing tablets from Wacom in terms of feel on glass, and that's solveable with a $15 screen protector.

It also has access to procreate or Adobe fresco if you're still up to getting abused by Adobe as opposed to whatever remarkable can come up with. It seems odd to be coming down on the iPad pro for drawing/writing - it's a lot of money but the experience is on par with much more expensive Wacom devices.
Have a feeling this is just syndication taking cue from Scott Galloway's recent podcasts. He has been saying at least over his last two pods that Apple is going to launch a search engine.
Honest question: who works like that? Handwriting is slower than typing. Handwriting OCR is unreliable as well. I don't find myself doing a ton of diagrams either, and if I did need that, the e-ink lag would make me hate this device. The only real advantage I see is browsing internet would be uncomfortable on it, which aids productivity in those who are addicted.
So just a couple of days ago I decided to revamp my VPS VM host. I ended up putting Ubuntu on a VM.

So I connect to it via RDP for the first time, and it is using XFCE. I'm not a big user of the desktop, I have no idea what the choices are or what features are offered in Gnome or KDE, or whatever. I just sometimes need a GUI to do some random things.

I open a window, and decide I need to resize it.

There's no cursor change when you move the mouse over the edge, or the corner. It just doesn't let you resize the window. There's no three-lines things in the corner either, you just can't grab the corner to resize it.

I ended up having to google that you need to ALT+RMouse to do this.

I don't know why that would be the default. It seems crazy.
A couple of the western Chinese vloggers I used to watch a lot recently fled China after they caught wind that the authorities were looking for them for 'illegal journalism'
Thank you for sharing your experience. It absolutely disgusts me the power that payment processors have over businesses. The sooner that industry is dismantled and made agnostic the better. I remember watching some BDSM website's documentary where they talked about how their payment processor dictated the kind of content they were allowed to make. It boggles my mind that people are okay with that.

I also find it surprising the amount of back bending people will do to say that payment processors are only doing it because the transactions are high risk. Your story, the thousands of other public stories, and the payment processors themselves have made it absolutely clear that it isn't about the transaction risk. It's them imposing their religious beliefs upon others.

With sex being such a huge part of our lives, why aren't we bending out backs to _help_ the sex industry thrive, instead of defending corrupt oligopolies?
The difference is you have to pass an allocator to the standard library functions in Zig. That’s why it is idiomatic compared to C++.
Just let x = &mut bar.0 will work, but this "intelligence" is confined to the body of a single function. Rust possesses the somewhat curious property that there are functions that are intended to always be called like this

foo(&bar.x, &bar.y, &bar.z)

which cannot be refactored to

foo(&bar)
I think it's unlimited only if you allow google to resize your images and not maintain them in the original resolution/quality.
I'd say review units having been sent out is another positive.
"for at least a decade"

I remember the rumor that Apple was going to get into search back when altavista was a thing.
Nice, but so expensive!
The Chicago Field Museum uses medical CT scanners for similar physical artifact scanning. I imagine there are medical imaging facilities near the Internet Archive in SF/South SF that might offer a reasonable price for such scans during low demand periods.
> There's paperwork that says you have to check in with local authorities wherever you go, tell them what hotel you're staying at, and all this other stuff, but nobody actually does it.

That's wrong: if you're staying in a hotel, they're doing the paperwork for you. You only have to do it yourself if you're staying in a private residence.
This is fascinating because while tools like Substack lower the technical barrier to entry for starting a newsletter, they don't make it easier to create good content. That part is still a grind.

On a few occasions I've thought about creating a newsletter on a whim, only to think better of it when I consider how long it would take to create great content.
Or Yousician. I'm not a fan of the Rocksmith presentation which relies on small position differences and colours, but there are alternatives.
It's even better than you think.

In the process two state AG's lost their careers, multiple US senators were implicated, a bank collapsed, there was kidnapping, human trafficking and drug running, and in the end created urban legends of gold bars being buried in the mountains to hide it from being seized by the feds.

I don't know of anywhere that has it all written out, but here's a related NYT story with a fair bit of it: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/business/in-utah-a-local-...
The stock market isn't the economy right now, but in the long run it is meant to approximate the net present value of a big chunk of the economy.
>but now browsers and operating systems are so secure that it's mostly a non-issue

Right, which is the point - it took an absolutely behemoth effort backed by megacorps to get us to this point. These applications are public-facing because that's the key way for the corps to make money - content delivery.

Why would anyone put this same effort into building more complicated internal services enabling derivative services to extract value from their platform?

> Calculating how much computing resources you're using is something that i.e. AWS Lambda does already

Yes, exactly - another megacorp built a service that makes them huge amounts of money, and now they sell access to it. This code is certainly not publicly accessible

So, again, help me bridge this gap - what possible reason would Spotify (to further GP's example) build such a platform for? This means that Spotify needs to maintain massively more infrastructure in order to help others extract value from their platform.

It just doesn't check out. Is it objectively a more efficient method of computation? Yes. Is it also completely misaligned with corporate incentives in the modern day? In my opinion, yes.
What about Kindle e-books?
> I mean, this thread here is the first time I've ever heard about them,

They have been on HN a lot[1][2], and one of the founders posted here on some of the threads. My understanding is that they couldn't reach all of the openness they were hoping for, and in recent times they've taken VC money and (I predict) that will affect version 2 negatively for hacker types.

I recommend the Youtube channel "My Deep Guide", he uses Remarkable long term as a normal person (not trying to hack it) and has done several video reviews over the years about firmware changes, what he likes and dislikes; it's not a "great device thanks for the freebie, like and subscribe" hype channel, it's thoughtful and detailed: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1B04TSL2cY (Looks like he's just done reviews of Remarkable version 2, I'll have to watch)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16321531

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
My guess is that Netflix is grandfathered in under long contract. It’s also a predictable source of income year after year, which is far more valuable than an unpredictable app by a smaller developer. It also definitely enhances the value of iOS more than most apps out there.

Ultimately, large corporations can get side deals because they wield more power and influence than smaller companies.
an app? well, that's fine I guess.
This is a complex topic, but what it boils down to is that the function signature is the API. If you borrow the whole thing, you borrow the whole thing, not disjoint parts of it.

This is also why it's okay in the body of a single function; that doesn't impact a boundary.

We'll see what happens in the future.
I think apple forces them to do the transaction through apple
The problem comes when someone else needs to also borrow the Foo, even immutably. In Java-style OOP, you typically have "objects" that own other objects, all the way down. And you manage state internally.

So it often comes up that you might call several methods in a given scope. If even one of those mutably borrows one field of one sub-object, then you can't have any other borrows of that object anywhere else in that scope.

Newbies from other languages trip on that often enough that I used to see questions about it in r/rust fairly frequently.
Apple apologists frequently claim the walled garden is meant to keep bad guys out, but this seems a clear cut instance of the garden's wall being used to keep people in.