skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setbacks are required in cities, otherwise many buildings wouldn't receive any natural light at ground level. Two- and three-story buildings don't really need them, the sidewalk is enough.
At this point you have to assume a round of antitrust lawsuits once the US govt returns to normal. But you have to wonder how they will divide the big tech or whether DC will even have the expertise required to implement something credible and effective.
It seems to have worked out at least semi-well? A lot less software on Windows requires admin permissions than did pre-Vista?
If 1,500 SF homes cost more now than they did in the 70s, how is the average person affording 2,700 SF homes today?

And low end AC & Dishwashers can be had for only a few thousand dollars NOW. Back in the 70s the cheapest ones were still expensive enough to require an upper middle class income.
Modern fridges have a defrost cycle built in which does this automatically. Are you by any chance in a high humidity location or running the fridge without adequate ventilation? You could possibly ask the service staff to adjust the thing to make it run more frequently, or request a replacement controller.
A YouTube video that jumps right in to the main point and doesn't have any "don't forget to subscribe!" stuff in it is kinda jarring in 2020.
too bad it's abandonware
Object-Oriented Programming: Encapsulation in Python
In classic Microsoft terrible-at-naming-things fashion, you can get Xbox Game Pass for PC. I'm using it to play the new flight sim.
> Widevine is a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology provider used by Google Chrome and Firefox web browsers (and some of its derivates), Android MediaDRM, Android TV, and other consumer electronics devices. Widevine Technologies was purchased by Google in 2010

Yet again, Google as the root issue:

from https://www.widevine.com/news (April 01 '20)

> All Widevine browser-based integrations (platforms and applications) must support VMP. VMP support is NOT available for Linux platforms.

Previously did some work with DRM streaming video hitting (MS) Playready, (Google) Widevine, (Apple) Fairplay. Google's Widevine was the out standing issue for server side ARM support. Google's products are the software equivalent of throwing half a bucket of paint at a large wall, not fully covering it, then saying the wall is painted; followed by ignoring any issues.
"Thing Explainer" and "What If" are my current coffee table books actually, hahaha, so spot on with the recommendation. I want a second copy of Thing Explainer because my friends have flipped through it so much.
One plus side of such a rapid release cycle is the changes tend to not be earth shattering. Big changes are deployed slowly and methodically, and the release notes are pretty easy reading. Compared to something with a yearly cadence, you could find yourself drowning under massive changes.
I understand who has the consequences here.

My curiosity is about that conversation with the lawyer when you say "I traded a single unit of something I created for $1 and I happen to have 2,000,000 more units." where something is cryptocurrency (what else could it be?).

Would most lawyers go "Yep, just another routine accredited investor check, $200 please."

Or would most say "I'm being asked to affirm this person has $1m in assets and in the off chance that somehow this is checked by someone I could be penalized because I didn't do my diligence to make sure this isn't just funny money".
> Yet this crime still happened

Or it might not, because the prison is a deterrent.

> You’re going to have to be more specific with your stats.

People shot in NYC: up 206% compared to last year.

https://abc7ny.com/nyc-crime-increase-in-violence-gun/630297...

https://www.amny.com/police-fire/crime-stats-show-that-shoot...

Chicago: murders more than double compared to 2019

https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/08/03/chicago-sees-its-mos...

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-shootings-weekend-viol...

Seattle's CHAZ/CHOP zone (the left-wing socialist anti-police project, "summer of love", as the mayor describes it): 525% rise in crime.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1073428/chop-zone-seattle-rise-...
We got an on-prem cluster working with Rancher and MetalLB with L2 configuration (MetalLB spoke ARP). It was great.
We tried to do the same on EKS. we got it iniitally working, but then we needed to get the nodes on certain subnets so that HQ would be happy or something, that was hard. It felt like any time we tried to make any changes, such as adding worker nodes or deleting old ones, the ALB configuration got all messed up and we couldn't get it fixed. Super brittle. We tried with NLB too, but eventually just got tired of fighting with a tool that was supposed to make this stuff simple. I'll tell you what was simple: MetalLB on our own on-prem network.
Now imagine the only software you are allowed to write is the one that can meet all accessibility requirements.
I prefer to pay once for the finished product, as opposed to paying regularly through something like Patreon. Maybe I'm cheap.

Also, in the case of literature I'm not paying just the author. Editors and proofreaders make all the difference:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-do...
Little-known EV and Lidar firms are raising billions in Tesla’s shadow
English/Chinese doesn't work at all
My name (Sam) is useful in that respect: I'm fairly sure it exists in every European language, being Biblical, and that it's spelled the same (in short form) in all of them.

The vast majority can't pronounce it correctly by the standards of my American dialect. But I don't mind.
Annoying Things that VCs say or ask (and how to think about them)
Bought local yes, ate fresh not necessarily. The staple diet for factory workers living in cities was mainly starches and fats
I never "bought" TDD. Just like "microservices" it adds a ton of complexity and cost for something you probably don't need.

The TDD cult doesn't consider that its the last thing you should try, test everything. If you need high reliability you should move to a safer language first. Dynamic typing to static. Unsafe memory to safe, like Rust or Go. Turn on a bunch of linters too. Move to a language that doesn't allow nulls.

Once you've got a bunch of linting and a static language that doesn't allow memory corruption, do you really need to test everything? Probably not. The linux kernel is a good example as usual. Virtually no tests and its the backbone of the internet
Problem with Holo it was hard to follow this concept and create visually distinct apps. They would all be cold white and blue. Material design gives for more variability.
Why do we need 3rd party stores? Why not just have a standard for an app endpoint url that iOS knows how to interact with. So I could publish an app on a private domain and then iOS would know how to download the app and check for updates from that end point? While there is value in a centralized store to search for apps (and that can certainly stick around), I don't understand why apps are forced to be hosted centrally in a store, Apple or third party.

Ex: To install the "Pepsi" app just go to pepsi.com and click the install app button. Then iOS could take over from there.
Vast majority of comments here are hilarious. Piracy is a crime, deal with it. You don't have a right to content made for a profit without paying for it. If you don't agree with the price or the distribution method, don't consume the content, problem solved.

The argument that resources should be spent on "real crime" is equally silly. These organizations can and do put immense resources into all other forms of crime. They shouldn't choose to ignore one class of it because it's personally convenient to label it "harmless".

I'd suggest if you find yourself defending pirates that you actually go and create something worth pirating and see how you feel.
This is super feedback. Glad you like the newsletter. I feel like we often find it hard get a view into when startups hit what they consider important milestones—those seem to get lost in the noise of flying grain silos and such. Some attempt at aggregation of space startup press releases or similar might be place to start… I'll have to give this a bit more thought. -Ben (co-editor of OI)
It can take a surprisingly long time to do the initial exchange on a smart card.
I'm not sure it's a poor equivalence. Apple's ads appear only in a few of their own apps. I wouldn't even call it an ad service, because that implies that third-parties can use it.

In comparison, Google and Facebook both operate actual, for-profit ad services that are used across almost every website and app in the world.

I agree about Apple being too strict on the App Store. But it's not really what I'm talking about.
I did not claim that source code constitutes an "invention" for the purpose of patent law or that the act of copying source code constitutes "making" an invention--the law is unclear on that. I was only stating that "selling" an invention was not the only act forbidden by patent law.

Here is the relevant law that supports my claim:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/271

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.

(b) Whoever actively induces infringement of a patent shall be liable as an infringer.

Title 35 of the U.S. Code is the full text of U.S. Patent legislation. Then there are the volumes of case law interpreting it, if you'd care to read it.
I think it's just about money. You pay and get what you pay for.
A Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
> a tire that acts stiff at high speed, but still grips while cornering and braking

Having a higher PSI rating and an air pump + brake-controlled deflate valve could do this.
Just like you, progressives in PDX tell the lower classes what they should want.
Whoops, I was WAY off, it's 6 miles per hour with a "standard" wall plug. You can see charging speeds for the different models and power at [1].

But even still most owners get a higher power plug installed as in the US our standard plugs are pretty low power and limited. We need higher power outlets for all kinds of things like water heaters, dryers, ovens, and EVs.

Also keep in mind that it's extremely rare to need a "full charge", you only need to charge what you used from the last time you drove, so unless you routinely drive 100+ miles a day, the standard outlet will probably be enough.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/home-charging-installation/wal...
Because whoever makes decisions on purchase usually don't use them.
By having Android limit the ability to do things like auto-update an app or install an app without additional prompts. If you've ever used F-Droid with say 10 apps that need updates, you're going to have to click through update on each one 10 times.
Simple Hack ‘Proves’ Canon EOS R5 Overheating Limit Is Artificial
Is the only reason international founders, who otherwise have lower fees/admin for an entity in their home country, incorporate in Delaware just to become investment-friendly for VCs?
This is a perfect example of the tradeoffs between openness and privacy.

If you give dangerous tools to users, you will have a few cool things and lots of tech-illiterate users screwed over.

Privacy advocates often preach solutions like the fediverse, without understanding that the fediverse is a privacy disaster for the tech illiterate. Cambridge Analytica wouldn't even be preventable on Mastodon, and it would have far worse consequences. Nevermind admins snooping on messages of their users, for i.e. romantic or financial reasons and poor people having to pay for their own services instead of seeing ads.

Yes, Facebook is horrible, but all currently known cures are worse than the disease.
Eating your own dog food (Open source your software)
Slime Volleyball Gym Environment
this website isn't actually naming your baby for you, it's suggesting a list of names using an algorithm. literally the whole point is to generate data for humans to use as a "seed".

and it already appears to support community suggestions in addition to the machine-chosen names.
I'm not the OP nor the developer, but sources are listed at the bottom of each "result" page. I think he used whatever lists of names he could find.
This is classic gatekeeping. You can bring all your money to a casino, buy lottery tickets, make bets on horses. But somehow investing in early stage startups is suddenly an issue the government wants to protect you against.
>The unfortunate reality is that mentally ill people that don't know how to take care of themselves are expensive. Think cleaning feces off of every imaginable surface, thousand room bed bug outbreaks, all the awful diseases that occur in unkempt showers or locker rooms. How will we keep so many people in confined quarters happy and busy enough to not cause massive problems?

Removal of high-density housing isn't solving that problem, it's just forcing those people into more desperate circumstances.
There are a fair number of clinics that will do blood tests for you. This is the first one that came up on DDG: https://www.everlywell.com/products/vitamin-d-test/ $49 but you have to prick your finger for the blood they need.
I have no experience with the S but I can say that every Model 3 made has had light and wiper controls on the stalk.
Interesting, I wouldn't have thought of that. The blanket is pretty dense and relatively incompressible, but I'll have to try that and see if the difference is noticeable (if I can figure out how to attach it like that).
Will ‘Tenet’ save the cinema?
99.9999% of people in this thread who say "I fear death" are lying: they are afraid only in the intellectual sense.

How many of those do actually experience the fear of death so deep in their bones that they actually live life to their fullest?

(I'm not claiming I'm one of those).
It’s a great strategy.

My assumption is that Trumps team is attempting to leverage the laxness of YouTube’s platform because of the negative attention and increased scrutiny that Facebook has been under.

They are outspending on a platform that will not correct or proof their messaging.

Trump’s digital team is extremely good at optimizing for conversions in a way that Obama’s team was as well.

Trump’s team uses plain English with simple call-to-actions focused on emotion such as FEAR. Dems language is much more convoluted and some would say elitist.

It remains to be seen whether stoking FEAR is as powerful a tool as HOPE is which to a certain degree is the commonality between their past campaigns:

* Obama was hope for a better future

* Trump’s first campaign was hope for a return to “values” of the past
Elon Musk Says He’ll Show Off Functional Neuralink Device
The scandal in Cambridge Analytica was roughly that they were able do this stuff after FB made it officially against the rules.
How effective is ultra violet light for stopping covid? Without a proper study or lots of testing it's dangerous to give people a false sense of security.
NATO's secret armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe.

If you want to see the other face of Cold War and have some fun, here you go.
Plenty of people in tech are also artists. I know I can draw pretty well, and I'm also a hobbyist.
Kubernetes 1.19 Released
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shares habits for focus and work-life balance
YouTube Alternatives at a Glance
> Each "app store" would have it's own ability to set those policies for apps it carries - but (crucially) users would have the OPTION.

> For users that don't care - stick with Apple.

As an Apple user, to me this is the opposite of having "options".

As an individual, I cannot fight any remotely large company let alone FB or Google. If they hold my messaging or email hostage, I would be forced to use their secondary iOS app stores with their custom rules, etc.

As a group, all Apple users, we have a unified choice. It puts the power dynamic back into users hands. Users that don't like the choices of Apple should buy other phones, and if enough people buy other phones the Apple ecosystem will change with the market.

Users that do want to be part of the collective bargaining power of the Apple ecosystem, like me, should have that choice!

One very important question to ask is, why do users spend more money on iOS apps than on Android apps[1]? For 6 years, while I owned an Android I never made a single purchase. My last 4 years on iOS, I buy apps, I start subscriptions, I use Apple Pay, etc. I can tell you it is entirely because of my trust in Apple as a company. A large part of that trust is earned through the regulations they put on developers and their emphasis on my privacy.

I can guarantee you, as soon as Apple is no longer able to earn that trust, the entire ecosystem will be significantly less lucrative for developers and this whole exercise will have been in vain, hurting everyone (users and developers).

[1] https://www.techaheadcorp.com/blog/android-vs-ios/
Fisk is not unheard of as an English surname, nor for that matter is Fish--a family named Fish had a role in New York Republican politics from Lincoln's day through about the 1990s.

There was a kid at my son's high school nicknamed "Fish", but I have never heard of it as a real given name.
Except "Jarlath"
Did you ignore everything else in my comment except that example?

I don't think additional conversation will be productive.

The point is success on small numbers and more mistakes on larger numbers would be what I would predict both if results were memorized and if it had deduced some incomplete model of how to do basic arithmetic.

Not having the examples in the training data is a point in favor of understanding the underlying rules and a point against memorization.

> "GPT-3 is not a child. GPT-3 is a language model"

Yes - thanks for the obvious condescension.
I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc.

The irony is that Abstract expressionism was used for Cold War propaganda after Harry Truman made his that-ain’t-art criticism of the pictorial works that were the State Department’s Advancing American Art exhibit.

Pollock et al. were politically acceptable demonstrations of American freedom of expression because they are not critically engaged with social conditions. Being critical of America’s social disparities was what spelled the end of Advancing American Art as a Cold War instrument. It was too much free expression for the Truman administration.

Don’t misunderstand me, I appreciate Pollock et al. But it’s why it took an immigrant to produce Frank’s The Americans to follow on the artistic groundwork layed by the Pubic Works Administration in the depression years.

Pollock is safe because it doesn’t raise important questions about meat space. Rants about what is art are as far as it goes. It’s more tampon in a teacup than it is Maplethorpe’s X.
On an unrelated note, did anyone here try Skipper as their ingress controller? We are torn between Skipper and HAProxy.

Our use case is transferring large size files and NGINX is rumored to have bad performance in that regard.
Hah only two? My wife is Chinese/Panamanian. We had to try and find names that worked in English Spanish and Chinese. Appeal to everyone. That was not an easy task.

In the end it was more about picking names that aren’t something weird or offensive in the other ones but sound good in English.

My moment was using Hector. The old Greek name appeals to my love of history and yet the family thinks it’s Spanish.
New Zealand stock exchange targeted by two DDoS attacks in two days
The use of pigments and their combination to form a palette, the way he held the brush and moved his body, the amount of force he applied, the viscosity of paint...

As someone who works extensively in an art medium (ceramics), I relate to these as technical challenges. It's very time consuming to reign in control over these factors to the point where they become "right", however subjective, to the artist.

The consistency of Pollock's work, to me, shows that he had a systematic approach to how he technically achieved his work (fractal analysis also seems to prove this [1]). I won't argue if it made his work more successful, but he clearly had a level of intention and skill that I personally admire.

[1] https://blogs.uoregon.edu/richardtaylor/2016/02/08/fractal-a...
This is a huge reason so much of inner SE Portland doesn’t have high-rise development. Would block downtown’s view of Mt. Hood.
Related:

"Why does Microsoft not have a video platform like YouTube?":

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-pl...

Future To-Do: Get Microsoft to create/buy its own video sharing service...
Looking good!

potential off-topic but this make me think of this:

Can one work through SICP using Racket?
A system like this needs to be able to flag when a query can’t be answered, rather than spit some arbitrary query out instead. That’s by no means an easy feat, but bad data authoritatively delivered is worse than no data.
Some People Get Covid-19 and Never Feel a Thing: Why?
Good advice to consider customer feedback carefully. Its been said, ask a farmer what they wanted in 1900, they'd have said "A horse that can pull more weight and eat less hay". They'd never had said, "a tractor".
Building the next big blog platform
They never responded to me asking that they document privacy preparation guidance for their SDK in iOS 14: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1450.
On “Mixing Colours,” Composers Brian and Roger Eno Paint a New Sonic Landscape
English and Japanese - 5 names that start with the letter L, 2 that start with the letter R

...needs more work.
You can be gay and have sex with a woman. Societal pressure was a pretty big thing back then.
it's 20k-40k miles depending on the sizes of the vehicles and the size of the battery. ~40 kWh, compact/subcompact on the lower end, and 100 kWh luxury sedan/SUV on the higher end. Phase to google is "cradle to grave" or EOL

Local power grid makes a difference but not by much. The worst case for an EV is still better than the best hybrids.
Cautions when traveling during Covid Pandemic -19
Contamination on the aircraft is more likely to happen due to respiratory diseases, which means that the virus can be transmitted by droplets of saliva that remain in the air (the so-called direct transmission) according to research conducted by Emory University and the opinion of professionals in the Poli-USP *.
Apple does offer an ad service to third parties: https://searchads.apple.com

The biggest market for Facebook’s ads on iOS is for apps. Apple is cracking down on that with this change, so Facebook won’t be able to show attribution for app purchases. It’s hard not to think that this change is an effort to take over the market with their competing app advertising service.

My claim is that this is part of the larger effort to take a bigger cut the economic activity that happens on the phone. The 30% app cut expansion to cover more services is part of that. Capturing the advertising revenue for apps is another. The only way for Apple to keep growing as a two trillion dollar company is to take over more of the economy, and this is part of that effort.

I envision a future where, if they can get away with it, Apple takes an expanding cut of every Doordash delivery, every Uber ride, every Amazon purchase, and any other good or service that they can obtain sufficient market power to capture.