skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could start by creating their "Steam" Phone.
> it's not clear whether a scraper which mimics a browser falls under fair use

Or what about a 'human scraper' a la Amazon MTurk?
The first link seems to be a 14-page memo and the second link a 28-page marketing document.

As someone who writes these docs for a living, don't be afraid to read the legal stuff. It's just text.
I think a lack of support for spot colors was one of my sticking points, personally. That and 20+ years of Illustrator work to pull resources out of to make new images faster, and multi-year projects meticulously built to maximize re-use and speed, and honestly that's the killer feature for me at this point unless Adobe completely falls apart.

Not that Illustrator lacks its share of long-running requests, "rotate the view" has been near the top of their publicly-voted bug/feature request site ever since they opened it, and would be "picked up shortly" back in 2017. https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-...

(And I know I was asking for it years before they abandoned the old "here's a hole to put your bugs and feature requests into" setup.)
Oh, it's mostly a statement of principles to which a company can sign up. More like a "public benefit corporation". Are these binding? How are they enforced?

I was expecting some kind of exchange designed for lower volatility. There have been exchanges proposed where prices only change once a minute, or something like that, to stop high frequency trading. But this isn't one of them. Warren Buffett has proposed that any capital gain over a period less than a year be taxed at 100%, to force a buy and hold strategy. Not seeing any of that here.
I also don't get it. It feels like Apple is just shooting itself in the foot. IIRC, if you allow sign in with Google/Facebook/etc. you're required to support Sign In with Apple. Now Apple is disabling that just for Epic. Apple's playing right into Epics assertion that App Store rules are applied arbitrarily and capriciously.
In Norway you are required to allow the national library to archive your websites, but I assume there's a lot that's slipping through the cracks ...
A petty move like this clearly shows that Apple as a company has nothing valuable to offer developers.

Shutting down "sign in" options shows that internally, Apple is looking for a way to hurt Epic in a manner that hurts the most but they are coming up short. Although iOS accounts for over one-thirds of Fortnite's 360million users, Epic has already made the brave decision to let that portion of revenue go and nothing Apple does will hurt them into begging Apple to let them back into their walled garden.
What would be really useful is to know the average citation count of these journals.

As someone who hates to see this stuff disappear, there is still a cynical person inside me that knows there are a glut of journals that are often used to bump publishing count for professors trying to get tenure.

That cynic inside of me also realizes that
a subset of the journal business is a bit of a scam anyway since frequently authors have to pay the journals to include their paper and then the journals charge an exorbitant rate to get access. Have you tried to buy a journal article lately ($35 for one paper!) -- yeah, neither have I.
There were a few transactions which got completed today. Who is buying and What are they buying ?

Source : https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_statistics/venue...
> Perhaps the Big Bang was merely a "localized" event and there are Big Bangs occuring in distant places whose light will never reach us. Perhaps we have gone through many Big Bang / Big Crunch cycles.

This was always my view of the state of the universe from childhood onward. The Void of space is infinite, and within that Void our universe could be one of an infinite number of other universes that we will never know about because they are so far outside our ability to observe them. Perhaps there is as as much relative distance between universes in the Void as there is between galaxies in our own universe.

This concept is the only way I've ever been able to accept that our own universe has a measurable size.
I'm not sure if "fastest growing" is a good metric at all..
I mean if I invent a new programming language I would be really fast the fastest growing one...
I think it is more likely that the change is in you. It has been a stressful year and you may be keeping score more than you did in the past. When things are hard we try to find fault in others, which is a painfully easy thing to do.

It might help to see these not as opportunities to be frustrated but as opportunities to be gracious and forgiving. It’s like seeing money fall out of a stranger’s pocket: it can be an opportunity to steal or an opportunity to help.
assume each prediction use 1000 tokens (including both input prompt and output text), then 100k tokens -> 100 predictions
Please compare LTSE to IEX, why is LTSE better?
Strong blade runner vibes going on today. It's so odd to see people going about their day as if normal when there is nothing normal about today. Was outside near Lake Merritt and there are people jogging and having coffee. Pure dystopia.
I just checked, and in 2019, they had $401MM in revenue with 1664 employees. That's ~$240,000 in revenue per employee.

Pinterest looks to have earned about $1.1 billion in revenue during the same time with roughly the same number of employees. Fastly is at $250MM in revenue with just 630 employees.

So it looks like Slack is at least twice as large as it should be for its given revenue. But why? Are they supporting too many platforms/devices? Or are chat applications just not that valuable to companies?
Ok. No. There's a lot of confusion with semantics. Following the most used definition of OOP as defined by JAVA, C++ and C#:

Classes are in no way functions in the FP sense because classes mutate state.

Classes are in no way functions because calling methods requires the instantiation of unrelated state. Example:

class A
def __init__(self, a, b, c):
self.a = a
self.b = b
self.c = c
self.banana = create_banana(create_gorilla(create_jungle()))

def process_a(self):
return process(self.a)

process_a cannot be used unless a, b, c and the banana plus the gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle the gorilla lives in is instantiated.

Let's talk about terminology. There are three that often get mixed up.

Procedure = a set of instructions that could encompass mutating and changing state.
Function = a box that when given input produces an output. The box cannot modify the universe. It can only produce something new when given an input.
Object = A grouping of a set of procedures and state that can mutate.

The javascript programmer OP is mixing up function and procedure. He defines a procedure and says that it can be a class. A procedure can be a class as it's just a set of instructions which can encompass defining scope, state and more procedures restricted to scope and state (aka an object).

This thing right here, written by the OP:

function setFirstName(firstName) {
fName = firstName
}

Is not a function... it is a method or a procedure that mutates state.

A function can do none of the above.

That's it.
The entire trading industry is formed around the public markets. Large financial firms, both in accounting and investing depend on revenue from the quarterly reporting. I'd expect a tremendous amount of resistance to moving companies to LTSE.

Do you expect that any firms will transfer? Or do you expect a new ecosystem to develop side by side, over time?
I wasted a good bit of time looking through their page to see if ProtonMail bridge would work with arbitrary tools like offlineimap and found it nowhere there so for anyone else with the same question. It appears it does.

https://spaceandtim.es/code/protonmail_mutt/
Forgot to mention "in a corporate environment"
The answer undoubtedly depends on your requirements and financial situation.
> Warren Buffett has proposed that any capital gain over a period less than a year be taxed at 100%, to force a buy and hold strategy

Well yes, anyone with ample liquidity would love this. Anyone needing short-term liquidity would be price indifferent between their acquisition price and the market price. Liquidity providers would make bank.
Like the dying days of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft game ecosystems?
Damn, you're absolutely right. Off by a factor of ~40...

You would need to raise the 40 tons up 120 meters, or conversely, you would need to raise 1,600 tons up 3 meters.
I think you have your priorities inverted.

I would much rather have my emails sucked into some developer’s private server than sit on the server of a large multinational that provides them to the federal police and national military without warning, notice, just cause, due process, or meaningful judicial oversight.

Doing gmail-first is the error, and is an endorsement of a society without privacy or the rule of law.

You have produced an espionage-only email client.

We can’t just go about our lives, pretending gmail is okay because it’s popular. Using gmail and building in its ecosystem is an explicit endorsement of gmail which is part of an illegal military spying program.

They aren’t different things, as much as I
imagine we’d all like them to be. To endorse gmail is to endorse illegal military spying, and is to endorse a society without privacy.
The photos in the article are not enhanced for dramatic effect. This is really how it looks like in person.

Hopefully this will finally hit some people hard and we'll reverse the decades of urban sprawl and environmental mismanagement. In all likelihood, it will be forgotten as soon as the blue sky returns.
Loving this so far. I've always hated how Mail.app uses a gargantuan amount of disk space for my gmail account.

Thanks!
Believe it or not, you can put illegal things in contracts, and lawsuits are there to work that situation out, which is why Epic has gone this route.
Can't speak for those Muskeg-walking Manitobans, but we still like Creedence here in Ontario
Thanks for the question! We will be launching a web version in November 2020 and an Android version summer 2021.
Still on the early prototype phase.
Step 1: sand off the painted labelling
Step 2: repaint with game board (since prototype, draw on with sharpie)
Step 3: make game pieces out of magnetic tape and "resource cubes"

The irony of this project is that I am in the US, and I'm taking covid lockdown seriously, ergo, I don't need portable anything.

Due to the small size of the tins, small board games are preferable: Bobail, small board capture Go, Alquerque, Fanorona, etc. Fortunately, many of these games have common boards and pieces.
Verizon often has 1,000MHz+ of millimeter-wave spectrum and there's virtually no one using it. T-Mobile is getting 300Mbps speeds using only 40-60MHz of spectrum. Even LTE, when no one is using it, can easily hit a few hundred Mbps (and sometimes more) with traditional spectrum. As carriers are able to use double or triple the spectrum for 5G, we're going to get faster speeds.

I think you're right that some halt of the fiber rollout is likely due to the impact that 5G will have. Even if mmWave spectrum can't go very far, it probably offers a good last-few-hundred-feet option. Instead of having to run fiber into someone's home, they can run fiber to their street and let a wireless link handle the last bit. They don't have to deal with construction permits, digging, coordinating with homeowners, etc.

However, I don't know what the costs of 5G equipment are right now and there might be resistance from neighborhoods that don't want a 5G cell-site on top of a bunch of lamp-posts in their area. I don't find them that intrusive, but many people have strong aesthetic opinions on their neighborhoods. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out.
This is great.

I don't mean to distract or detract, but do any folks know of similar-ish systems?
>"space itself is expanding (into what? nobody knows)"

I have a terrifying theory on this (granted, the Earth will be long gone). What if the universe is not actually expanding in the sense that it is being propelled by an initial explosion, but instead falling towards a much greater mass - the end of time so to speak, where all mass ends. Considering that gravity is a "weak force", the scale of such a mass makes me uncomfortable to think about.

Perhaps what we observe as the fabric of space-time itself "stretching" is actually a similar process to what happens to matter as it enters a black hole?
So glad to hear! Thank you. :)
>>I just picked up the more restrictive license at the beginning - being a sole funder and not working on this full time etc. I simply did not want somebody (e.g. a big company with a big team) grabbing my code along the way and running away with it.

Sounds like a great reason to use the AGPL! Can always switch the license for later releases as you gain traction.
Any plan for other languages?
Snake oil is snake oil.
Not all businesses are productive. Look at a few decades of Japanese economic history.

If capital is tied up in a failing business that's pursuing a "long term strategy," then it's not freed for new businesses.

SpaceX and Tesla (to name two HN faves) probably wouldn't exist had PayPal retained more of its capital.
> A more reasonable example would be that it is coercive to deny others the freedom to choose what they ingest.

It's an excellent example to consider, since vaccines are in that category and some people's free choice to not take vaccines impacts the health of people who cannot take them for reasons of medical complication and now cannot rely on herd immunity to keep them safe.

> Reject property rights, and by extension territorial claims of states comes part and parcel with all left-libertarian ideologies.

While I like those ideologies for their moral purity, I think they fail in practicality for the reason you've just described: they're unstable. Another group with organized use of force and a willingness to take and hold territory displaces them, and then they get to define their actions as just in their moral framework, regardless of what the libertarians think.
> Epic isn't fighting for the little guy

So many people say "oh, Epic is not the underdog. They are a huge corporation themselves. They do not deserve my sympathy." As if they don't support this case, but would have supported it if it was brought by a small independent developer. As if it is morally wrong to support the case because it has been filed by a big company.

But guess what, only a multi-billion dollar corporation who is willing to spend north of a billion dollar on legal costs can even toy with the idea of suing Apple and winning. Anything smaller, they will be out of business and everyone will be polishing their resumes and studying leetcode before the first snowfall. There will never ever be a serious legal battle against Apple by a small independent mom-and-pop owned warm fuzzy feelings business. Because they just go bankrupt. Many have perished under App Store rules (you remember the case of the curated app review app from a couple of weeks ago?) and many more will perish.

But if some company, any company at all, even if it is Blackwater, wins this suit, then there is a precedant. Then there is a path forward. Then, even if it comes to a lawsuit, with the precedent, it may only takes a couple million dollars for the ISV to fight it in court, instead of a couple billion dollars. Then there may be alternative app stores, so instead of just going out of business if an Apple reviewer decides they don't like you app, you can move your app to the alternatives, even if they are run by devil incarnates.

Epic may not care about the little guy, but if they win the fight they are fighting, the little guys will benefit immensely.
All-in-one design integrates microfluidic cooling into electronic chips
Yes, the same applies to newspapers and magazines online. We need a law demanding a legal digital deposit at least at the national level.

It is somewhat trivial to devise an API to be integrated in the publications pipelines to automatically and transparently submit new and modified articles to a central repository.
How would opening up consoles destroy their ecosystem?
Thanks! I've heard this request before in a few different forms, and I have it on the backlog. In the meantime, one option is to just quit the application, and you'll stop receiving any new mail notifications.
This wasn't some random ToS violation, this was a willful egregious violation done with subversion & malice to undermine the App Store's revenue model. I don't fault Apple for wanting to sever all ties with bad actors.

> They enforce their TOS randomly and this will happen to smaller companies too.

If their ToS is randomly enforced, which other App/Company violated the same terms as Epic which Apple chose to not enforce? I can't imagine there'll ever be a single case where a remote activated violation to sneak pass App Review would ever be allowed to remain on the App Store once identified.
Depends on the system you are programming for. Most C++ libraries on a debian system (like ubuntu) are an 'apt install' away from being on your system. And CMake is now pretty standard for libraries so you can be pretty confident a library can be just downloaded and installed via cmake.
Hoarding critical knowledge is a way to stay employed
No.

5G marketing is concentrating on new high-band, because first 5G installations are deployed into new high-band.

5G spectrum covers also low-band and-mid band spectrum from 1G through 4G LTE frequencies.

5G installations in the countryside will have low-band that is more efficient than 4G/LTE. You can have _less_ base stations than LTE, not more in the low-band. 5G NR is more efficient radio interface in all bandwidths.
Always the same question: what's your threat model?
Support for both Gmail and Office 365 with their own proprietary APIs would be a knockout feature. Also I really appreciate the fact you don't use any intermediary servers, which has held me back from using some other macOS email clients.
People may realize but still decide to have some fun with this opportunity. :)
CSS. You can apply CSS directly to a schema instance in order to allow beautiful display in a browser. If you are feeling really wild you can add a tiny sprinkle of JavaScript at the tail end of the file for complete interaction via DOM walking.

Here is an example of a schema instance with CSS. Keep in mind this is literally the XSD file: http://mailmarkup.org/mail-documentation.xsd
> Fortnite is all DLC.

Ah, I forgot that bit. So Epic wants to list their products on the App Store and pay Apple $299 a year while they're earning millions off of one game.

As an Apple shareholder, I have to ask: what are they putting in the water over at Epic?

The only charitable explanation I have is that they don't want to put it on the App Store at all, but they aren't allowed to do that.
My memory of how it works is that it's only POSIX complaint because it does os.system() to a POSIX compliant shell.

It parses some Python syntax on the command line and then uses Python's eval() to handle it. And then for shell parts it calls os.system().

My memory is fuzzy though so I'd be happy for a correction ...
Unlike Apple, larger developers can use their market leverage to negotiate better rates, and many have, which is why you don't hear Epic or Rockstar complaining about MS or Sony. This point is key to the difference, since antitrust is about market interference. If market participants can use their own leverage to push back against another participant's market activities, then you don't have an antitrust violation. Apple does not allow negotiation. It's take it-or-leave it.

Microsoft and Playstation also allow for cross-platform play, and crucially unlike Apple, actually provide a significant amount of services to developers for their cuts, including but not limited to QA services, SDK and hardware support from actual MS/Sony employees, and marketing spend.

Additionally, while MS and Sony require all developers to use their stores or APIs for IAP, they allow developers (at least large ones) to heavily customize those storefronts, and charge significantly less than 30% for the enforced privilege of using their IAP APIs; the exact rates being a matter of negotiation.
Finally some hopeful words. Thanks!
As someone that had some background in cladistics, I knew OOP was gonna get real complicated as soon as I saw animal hierarchies as a 'simple' example.
Then we need a serious discussion as to why we are using the education system to solve food access issues, along with poverty, and support for disabilities.

Once we burden the education system with solving society ills, you fail at the main goal. This is called scope creep.
FTA

Each unit can be configured to produce between 1 and 20MW peak power, with output duration from 15 minutes to 8 hours.

For reference, 20MW is ~4 large aerogenerators. A single nuclear PWR is 500-1000MW.

It can scale up to provide 1 GW of storage - enough to balance the load of an entire large city.

You'd need 50 of these installations for a single city, for 15 minutes of power, 1000 for the 8 hours.
In big companies I just don’t see the point of Slack over MS Teams as they are quite similar and Teams is very low friction as it integrates with the rest of Office 365. Slack has better API and that’s great but what would be other serious competitive advantages? It almost seems to me that if you want to target big companies you need a competitor for the Office 365 platform and not “only” a competitor to one of its apps.
It seems quite possible that, depending on the course of the pandemic (short-term) and a related long-term evolution of remote work in finance/tech, that the footprint of highly compensated employment and demand for real estate becomes much more spread out. In a scenario like that, coupled with 8% mortgage rates, I could easily imagine a 50% haircut to high priced real estate.
Why should I pay for your locally-grown children when I have alternatives?

Say each woman has maybe one child late in life, so the population has a half-life of about 35 years.

In exchange, I get to double the educated workforce of my society, which makes it produce more economic output. I also get the performance advantages of diversity.

The only thing I have to do to keep things working is attract a number of immigrants equal to 50% of the population each generation. Which, because the scheme generates lots of wealth, is not hard to do.

So what's the value-add for your alternative?
This looks really nice!

Does it support e-mails with winmail.dat? That's been my biggest annoyance with Airmail, I end up having to go to the gmail web interface to view any e-mails with winmail.dat
A block introduces a lexical sub-scope but it's not a closure, because there's no closing over: the "closing over" part is about a function accessing its definition context during its execution. A block doesn't have such a distinction.
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1. Orange skies.

2. Extremely expensive housing.

3. Can't go outside.

Mars? Nope, San Francisco.
Quotes and Excerpts from Rules for Radicals
The Difference Between Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Indeed. `library(tidyverse)` and I’m set for like 70-80% of use cases for data manipulation, exploratory data analysis, and statistics.

Though to be complete, any ML project means python and scikit learn.
> I'm baffled at the insistence of a word process in a terminal, honestly.

I don't know what to tell you, some people are more productive working in a terminal.

I like being able to ssh in, reattach to a screen/tmux session that has my email (mutt), development environment (gdb+vim+ycm), word processor (dosemu+wp), and so on. This is how I've worked for a long time.

I agree that everything I use a computer for could be achieved (far less efficiently, but without the steep learning curve) using GUI tools, but I value the efficiency gain and don't mind investing in learning new powerful tools.
I got a headstart by not reading this article.