skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. I will edit the article to specify that she was NOT taking any calcium throughout all of this. This is not uncommon - Vitamin D seems to be more effective at raising calcium levels than calcium itself.
I do take issue with your claim that the majority of people with Vitamin D levels of 80 are fine. We actually do not know this. I can't say whether they are fine or not. But I can say that I see enough of them with high calcium levels, who are clearly not fine. They may be in the minority. Still, we do need to treat Vitamin D like a medication. Like any medication, some people will do just fine on high doses. Others will not. That's ok; we just need to be aware of that and watch out for harmful effects.
I'm a Lake Semerwater (Lake-sea-mere water : lake lake-lake-lake fan personally).
I have to use my own developer account basically every time I build an app for a customer until they got around to either inviting me to their team or creating their personal developer account.

Unless Epic is filled with developers that never ever launched their own application not being part of the Epic developer account is an annoyance (and a familiar one for most iOS developers) at most.

You don't need to deploy an SDK the only thing you would deploy are test builds of games that use the updated SDK.
= Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface =

One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.

“The command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface.”

Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master's hand.

“I don't understand you!” said the programmer.

Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.

“What are you trying to tell me?” asked the programmer.

Master Foo pointed at the programmer's head. Then he pointed at a rock.

“Why can't you make yourself clear?” demanded the programmer.

Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.

As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.

At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment.

Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer....
You don’t buy a Corolla and get mad that you can’t off road with it, do you?

No, but I would get mad if the manufacturer told me what brand of gas I could buy and what roads I could drive on.
For sure, but as far as I'm aware, you can't directly buy your way to the top spot. In my experience, the products that earn it have been high quality backed by good customer service.
Thanks for the book reference.

Having read some some history, the obsolescence of weapons systems is indeed a cultural problem that people become unprepared for in the euphoria of advancements. Classic example being Syracuse vs Rome, where Rome was held back by the weapons of Archimedes only to be sacked after the Syracusans decided to have a party and left a gate open.
> someone must be at fault

Some times, yes, other times, no. Yet, it's not fraud, when someone is at fault, it's for other issues.
What has happened to us as people that studies like this have become so rare? We can't understand this virus without taking on some level of risk.
This is a dangerously wrong and even ignorant opinion. There is everything wrong with eugenics, and it’s all contained in the core idea that you have some notion of what is “good” for your children (and correspondingly, further parts of the human race). Other people have already pointed out the “eugenics will be used for political gain” component, which is absolutely true and kills it there. Another issue which I don’t think you appreciate though is the need for genetic diversity and genetic drift. The act of going about systematically pushing everyone’s genes in a certain direction is not only impractical, since we really don’t know enough about genetics to do that reasonably well, it’s also incredibly stupid because we’re getting a temporary “positive” payoff now by potentially screwing up our ability to adapt later. Mistakes are the spice of life, literally; don’t try to get rid of them, you’ll only hurt yourself.
I think it’s strange that others (a small subset of people) want to take something great and ruin it. I understand that someone wants to tinker with their phone, but in that case that’s just not what an iPhone is for. It never has been.
I was just thinking about German the whole time.

I knew a German to Polish translator and she complained about how hard live translation was when a key part of the sentence is held until the very end.
It could well be!

Reading it properly again for the first time in literally around 30 years I'm astonished at how much I've taken its messages to heart in my 20+ year career.

To this day I have a downright visceral reaction against "pretentious diction", and as a fairly confident written communicator I find overly "clever" writing is to be mistrusted, not praised. There's a real Emperor's New Clothes thing going on with a lot of business writing.
I don't quite understand this. Aren't the availability zones denoted by a letter?

My Aurora instances are in eu-west-2a/eu-west-2b/eu-west-2c, so what is euw2-az2?
> WoT as realized by PGP seems to me to be a very good tool for manually assessing whether to trust a previously unknown key for someone that a third (untrusted) party sends you.

https://inversegravity.net/2019/web-of-trust-dead/
Then you’d buy a different car. I’m happy to use the specific gas and roads. I buy it knowing that I’m getting the benefits of that specific gas and road with the trade off that I can’t use whatever gas and roads I want.
Sounds like you are in some sort of echo chamber where you perceive everyone who isn’t filthy rich as living in poverty.
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Why doesn't Slack fall over to another AZ?
That's funny, I just checked and I couldn't find a single one. Not that I even know of all of them, but the obvious ones (CRA, PM's office, EI, e-services's 'My Account', main site, etc) all use HTTPS.
Are you talking about the Xbox, PS4, and Nintendo Switch?

Oh, the iPhone? Yeah people don’t care. Having Apple vet apps is a benefit, not a curse.
His rhetoric is like:

Fedora has problems with it :)
If Apple does not allow Epic to develop Unreal Engine, and Unreal Engine 5 is subsequently not released for Apple computers, that feels like a substantial "threat to anyone using it" to me.
> ...decades afterwards sent meat, berries and other food stuff for testing ....

What did they find? How bad was the impact?
This is why second drafts exist
I'm in my late twenties and sometimes I need to pause, a bit like dealing with left/right or east/west.
My problem with a text file is how clunky it is to include images.
Just curious what makes you feel Matrix is more IM than workgroup chat? What's missing or different to be suitable for you?

I've actually heard several people have the inverse sentiment ("Matrix is more group chat and channels than IM")
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The letters are different per-account.
That is assuming you trust Soviet stats on Chernobyl deaths.

I’m acquainted with one of Russia’s chief oncologists, who was one of the primary physicians that dealt with the consequences of Chernobyl. She’s been quite clear that the number of people affected is both large and well-suppressed.

Of course, the very nature of “the state makes sure not to collect damaging statistics” means I can’t actually quantify the real harm done. For all I know, maybe it’s just equal to ‘two’ bad train wrecks.
What would "dynamic" look like for mobile platforms and app stores?
When rapid delivery is no longer an option
> You don’t buy a Corolla and get mad that you can’t off road with it, do you?

That is not an artificial restriction. If you take it off road, it will perform as car not designed to be taking off road does. It won't refuse to leave the road to protect Toyota's brand.
> ban Epic from doing other lines of business via macOS tools (e.g. Unreal Engine development) seemed excessive compared to other app bans

No, if you try to smuggle forbidden features through the approval process by hiding them and only enabling them after the app is published your developer account will be terminated immediately. This is clearly documented and Epic knew this up front.

Getting the chance to revert the changes before the account is terminated is what sets apart Epic from most other developers, like people that changed their apps to full emulators after it got approved like what looked like a single game.
I'd say human experimentation has become a big no-no. Pretty gnarly research has been done until the 70s, even 80s. Even for new drugs there are countless hoops to jump to get to the final human trials.

Right now you can study infected individuals just fine, but you can't go around inoculating people with diseases, even if they're volunteers.

One common pattern I've seen is that well known, old drugs, are either known to be ok for a pregnant woman, or not ok. But the bulk of drugs discovered since the 80s are "not advised unless necessary", "check with your doctor" and other variants of passing the hot potato.
If Epic wins their lawsuit and Apple is forced to allow sideloading/other app stores, is that a move toward a more open market?
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Apple threatened to revoke Epic’s “Apple Developer” account due to repeated violations of the developer policy and agreement.

I am sure Apple did it to try and bully Epic into settling.
Out of those examples, the only ones properly vetting apps are Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo and Apple are notorious for peddling shitty apps to consumers.
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What do we mean by rewrite and refactor?
It's come across as pretty bad since I discovered it, maybe 5 years ago.
> If I buy a new TV and throw the remote in the trash, the remote was not part of the cost of the TV?

A hardware remote is, which has an actual per unit cost (a software remote wouldn't be). The cost of Software distribution is effectively $0, a valid comparison would be if you bought your new TV with Android (which costs $0 for the manufacturer to include) you could replace the TV OS with Tizen OS which is also free, neither OS costs anything to the manufacturer or consumer and you don't get it cheaper for purchasing the same TV without an OS.

> Also, "jail break OS"? Isn't that just iOS?

There used to be a healthy alt OS ecosystem for iPhone before newer iPhone's have become increasingly lockdown where it doesn't appear you can do that anymore, the best you can do is JailBreak iOS and install a custom package manager and install custom software not permitted on the App Store.
Unless it's CloudFormation... Then it's just data stuffed with functions that do a bunch of string manipulation.
It's not a big deal to you.
Would you yourself go to a concert at this time?
> It scares me how much people on twitter believe that what they see trending on there from the news and other sources is being seen and blown up worldwide when it's not. It's being blown up worldwide ON TWITTER.

Unfortunately, "Twitter users react to..." is an entire genre of news article these days, even on otherwise-reasonable sources like the BBC.
I would like to see NetBSD follow suite but I don't know if they have the manpower to do so.
To me, it seems to support lazy evaluation much better with a generator.

Additionally composability seems improved, due to all functions being able to be written in a way where they themselves become generators, so you apply all steps only to each result you retrieve. Potentially saving quite a bit of execution time, if you don't need the full collection.
Matrix is a protocol - you’re probably thinking of https://element.io (formerly Riot.im)? If anything, Element is more workgroup than IM (but there are other Matrix clients which are more IM than workgroup).
I don't understand why you call it "vaporware".
>What did they find?

They found that keeping testing going this century serves the valuable function of keeping the public at ease and the cost isn't that high (testing is pretty small scale now) so why not keep it.

The primary source of radiation was airborne dust (and therefore precipitation as well). Crops and farm raised animals have been clean for a long time. The primary risk is shooting a buck that ate a berry that had something nasty on it back in 1995 but between the half lives of the radioactive compounds in question and the pattern of events required to get those components to one's dinner plate the risk is beyond minimal at this point.
Many of those 1.2M users are on large corporate deals that are at a small fraction of list price. This is a common phenomenon in SaaS.
That's what the judge is ruling is not allowed. There's no basis for it. Apple can't go after an unrelated business because it's having a temper tantrum and feeling spiteful.

The fact that fortnite is built on UE doesn't have any significance here.
XMPP cries in a dark corner...

Matrix also can perfectly work as an alternative for slack. You can have rooms that are private to your server, you can add integrations for bots and so on...
Of course those ecosystems will collapse, at least in part, they are a transition point towards the ecosystem climax.

In the same way as the first week of an artistic work will disappear forever under new layers of paint.
Why? Because having Apple in control of the device is valuable to me. VERY valuable. It's the big reason why I willingly pay more for Apple phones. If I wanted control over my phone, I don't need to "demand" it. I would have simply bought a different product.

Meanwhile, I already have plenty of devices that I have control over.

That's like asking why not insist that your Tesla Model 3 has a diesel engine, a manual transmission and the ability to crawl up boulders. Not everyone buys things for the same reasons.
Chaos engineering IRL.
Navies have had a counter tactic to attack by swarms of small fast boats since the beginning of the 20th century. The boats would be ripped to shreds in seconds by small calibre guns.
I'm frustrated that AWS managed services are not moving away from this AZ. I'm seeing CloudFront returning a 504 trying to connect to API Gateway for a number of requests. After 2 hours you would think they would stop trying to route traffic there.
But this doesn’t fit the official doom and gloom narrative. The housing market must be a giant casino like the stock market.
Absolutely. It's an environment where even people with a strong install-all-the-toolbars urge have a hard time harming themselves.
As far as I understand, Apple has blocked Epic's developer account which prevents them from developing for iOS. They haven't directly blocked Unreal engine
> no one of those project is derived from each other, ZFS is a module (on all platforms i think)

Once compiled, the ZFS module is a derived work from both the Linux kernel and ZFS.

> > You may distribute the Executable form of the Covered Software under the terms of this License or under the terms of a license of Your choice [...] does not attempt to limit or alter the recipients rights in the Source Code form from the rights set forth in this License.

> That means your compiled ZFS module package can even be under GPL2 or 3 or beerware

I trust the Red Hat lawyers on this matter more than someone who is not a lawyer (from that page: "While it's true that I am not a lawyer [...]"). And from what I understand (I'm also not a lawyer), that clause in the CDDL applies only to the compiled result; but the GPL requires that, if the compiled result is distributed as GPL, the corresponding source code also be available under the GPL. So you cannot distribute your compiled ZFS module package under GPL2 unless the corresponding source code can also be distributed under GPL2.
In Germany? Yes. In the US? Absolutely not.

I'm in Hungary and was at a jazz concert myself this
weekend
Agreed. Except when it isn't :)

Ticket agencies use 'pre-booking' to book the first tiny tranche of tickets.

And HR departments seem to love 'pre-authorization' to get... authorization for holidays, or purchasing, and so on.
The effects are similar. iOS 14 will be out soon. Epic needs to prepare Unreal Engine to be compatible with it. How can they do this without any developer tools?
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Nice. Surprised I hadn't seen that.
If it had meant the oil company it would have omitted the definite article: "The Renaissance of Shell".

Or perhaps even included the full name: "The Renaissance of Royal Dutch Shell".
That's fair - I wasn't trying to make the point that it can't be weaponized. In fact it's quite the opposite.

I guess my main point with that quote is that it amplifies things (sometimes organically viral, sometimes engineered) and then places them all on the same level. So the userbase starts to believe that something that trended on twitter is just as globally important/well known as the genuine world news story that trended beside it, because it's all in one pot.

That's dangerous.
Let's say Epic get what they want, that would open iOS to competing app stores and/or would make rules more flexible regarding available payment systems and/or would allow applications to be side loaded. That's more dynamism, market forces can then play their role. I understand that you may want an even more open market, but that's a quite different topic.

> Having two competing kings fighting over the throne isn't "dynamic" democracy.

That would be a more dynamic kingship than just having one king with full control over the kingdom. I'm not sure what you want to say here. Dynamism doesn't transform the kingdom in a democratic system. Nor is Apple or Epic part of a democratic battle. You seem to be conflating a bunch of things IMHO.
Nintendo is in a stronger negotiating position vs. game companies, if the hardware only accepts signed games. This makes it easier to get exclusive games, prevents piracy(which encourages games to be made in the first place), and allows Nintendo to enforce standards across all games.

Console hardware doesn't have much value by itself: Computers are plentiful, so if you just want something to run software pick up a Raspberry Pi or Nvidia Jetson. Their value derives from the games that companies make, so ceding power to the game companies(via Nintendo) makes your console more valuable.
As a non-American who knows little about the IPO process, is there a reason why there have been a flood of S-1 reports listed on HN over the past 24 hours?
At the end of the day it all comes down to subjective decisions on what predictions are reasonable and what are not.
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That works for forms. I write static content.

I did start adding little calculators and utilities in my articles, but those only make sense because I have a lot of free time.

I heavily cite sources, so at least you'd know the exact paragraph in the law that supports it. It's something my competitors neglect, and it makes it hard to tell facts apart from hearsay.
On the very first episode Herb Lechner, from SRI, mentions the feeling of nostalgia brought by visiting the Computer Museum (before it moved from Boston and became the Computer History Museum).

It's fun to see the interest in retrocomputing dates back to the early 80's.
If you just read the passage in context, it's clear that the interpretation you're referring to is completely off base:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=citation&b....
I'm pretty sure that Apple wanted to send an obvious signal to its developers. After Spotify, apparently Apple has decided not to like this kind of antitrust challenges from third party developers, which might be harder than those from users. The simplest option would be threatening developers with retaliation, something like "If you piss me off, I'll make your life miserable". I don't have a gut to fight against such thing, and I guess the same thing may apply to more than 99.9% of other developers as well. This also happened to their internal employees (lawsuit against Gerard Williams III), so I'm not very surprised.
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To Fight Apple and Google’s Grip, Fortnite Creator Mounts a Crusade
Who has suggested that the golden rule is a novel aspect of Christ's teachings? Christ himself provides a citation for it.

Walter Wink's interpretation of "turn the other cheek" is kooky and obviously wrong. You could only think otherwise if you'd never read it in context in the Sermon on the Mount. Luke doesn't even bother mentioning that it's the right cheek in another report of a similar statement by Jesus.

I am not a Christian myself, though I don't see what difference it makes here.
What "shitty app" can you download in the Nintendo Switch shop?
To Build a Progressive Web App or a Cross-Platform App with React Native?
What? Facebook built react to solve these problems.

When they built Luna stuff like react didn't exist.

Investing in developer tooling including frameworks is a fine use of time and often pays off hugely. There wasn't a better alternative 11 years ago.
Those NSA/Amazon guys are back with Synthetic Data
6 months ago this came out with lots of feedback from you all:

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If they built houses like they built slot machines, 80% of the houses would be worth what people are actually paying for them
No, seriously, how would you build a computer platform that everybody, even computer iliterate people can use and install programs without constantly ending up with malware, scams and other nasty stuff that steals their money or information?

The apple iOS model seems to be the most promising here. It comes with huge tradeoffs in user control but for a large part of the worlds population I think its the right choice.
Kid bought an old crappy yacht. Years later he's caught in serial insurance fraud transactions for boats and planes. The dollar ripoff values go from $40k to $100k's rapidly within a few years, and a few years later he's in jail.

Guy is in this line of 'work' because he is an adrenaline junkie. It brings certain side benefits-- dealing in obscure obsolete aircraft and parts gives him means of leisure and more than a little swagger, without the pain of asset depreciation. Convinces himself, a romantic interest, and not many others, that he's James Bond.

Once his 'business' got big enough, it attracted the right attention and has given the guy an opportunity to remake himself yet again, this time from jail.