skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft offers Office as both a 1-time purchase and on a subscription basis. The price of the 1-time purchase is generally about what a subscription would cost over 3 years.

Since Office is the kind of tool you would keep for 3+ years and has an established reputation, this doesn't seem like a bad deal. Especially since Office has always been expensive.

People get angry about subscriptions when the subscription price far exceeds the previous 1-time purchase cost within a reasonable amount of time. In the case of the Android tool in this article, that's either $30 up front or $5 per year. So it seems that the subscription is either underpriced or the up-front price is too high: it's not surprising that they didn't have a lot of anger directed at them. Flip that around and say $15 per year or $30 up front, and I'd bet you have a lot of anger directed at them.
Ask HN: Open Problems in server infrastructure?
Bonus points if they can be worked on by a single person.
There are only so many prime cuts, such as steaks, in a steer. Ground beef and sausages are what you make with the rest of that animal.
> AFAIK, it's unclear.

I'm relatively sure this isn't faked:

https://youtu.be/NfKOD0XqR14?t=170
20 years later, after importing around 4 billion net barrels per year for that period. We now had seven months where we shipped around ten million more barrels per month than we imported. Back to a net importer as of May though.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
Oh, definitely! We're learning that siblings love playing Tappity together. Well, at least one plays while the others watch :) So, having it on the big screen will really help, plus it'll be easier for parents who like to keep an eye on things as well!
Are you still running this service? It appears from the site to still be running. I had a similar idea to this a while ago and I'm glad to see someone built it.
Have you considered producing a patch for the FreedomBox folks? Getting it into Debian would make it easily available to lots of users.

https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/
search up beam forming, phased arrays, collimated beams and metamaterial based beam guides
I think the solution is "hybrid" scraping with a human driving the clicks and the scraper passively collecting the data.

If you record, you can probably teach AI to emulate.
We can't talk about these without talking about nextdns.io which, in my opinion, is the most elegant way of solving this problem.

I wanted to run a pihole for years but never got around to building it into my dns infrastructure. Nextdns, on the other hand, was a quick afternoon setup ...
No, things aren't getting bigger.

Like other gravitational effects, locally, spatial expansion would manifest as a pseudo-force, but be too weak to overcome the nuclear and electromagnetic forces that keep matter bound.

However, Friedmann cosmology is only a large-scale approximation. A more realistic model is swiss-cheese cosmology, which comes with a different metric within the 'holes', and spatial expansion might indeed not act on galactic scales (though I would image it to have an indirect effect as boundary conditions at the edge of the hole have to be matched; I'm no expert on this part of the story, though).
Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough” (2011)
Not to establish standing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24427468
Yeah, this has also worked for me! I’ve used https://gitduck.com for this in the past and plan on starting up again.
focusmate looks great actually, I'll try it out.
I didn’t say that, so I’m not sure why you’re making the argument to me.

Belgium, Spain, the UK and Italy are indeed worse off than Sweden, and it isn’t selective to point it out. That’s all I’m saying here.
Everyone wants equality until it affects them negatively then, it seems.

Being a smartass aside, I don't think it will be the end of competitive sports for women. I think we'll see new sports emerge, which would be pretty interesting.
Love your extensions
relays are passive and require no power. quasi-optics.
I still use Word 97 for writing. I've tried many WPs, but haven't found anything better.

I run it inside a VM and it is still faster and better than LibreOffice by a long shot.

When I'm done writing, I paste the text into one of my blogs with IE6, which my sites still support.
No I'm not going to call your comment "politicization". Here is the government trying to act [1].

Both sides include poison pills that they know that the other side won't pass. Why is a new $2B FBI headquarter or SALT reform even in a COVID bill? They both agree to at least $300B directly to the people, just pass that. Now is the time to have unanimous agreement on things that will help, not include provisions to help your constituents.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/30/upshot/corona...
No, you're right. They call it near field for a reason. Likely single or double-digit meters in distance depending on the antenna size for that frequency range.

For example, 10 foot antenna, 4Ghz == 12 meters of "reactive near field" or ~250 meters of "radiating near field" though the claim is it's not radiating, therefore it's safe.

Either this is bs, or something important isn't being said.
to my knowledge, 5G and other cellular bands are regulated in most countries. You're dependant on an external decision if your area gets served.

If some radio bands with wide range technologies get unregulated for public usage and access to equipment is possible - then communities can decide on their own.
Payment plans are everywhere. It’s not about needing it so much as just not having that much disposable cash. $25 a month for two years is a lot more doable than $500 at once.
But it doesn’t matter what you use to bootstrap something because we talk about abstractions. And it is absolutely true that NAND an F form a functionally complete set of gates.

> But great mansplanation, carry on.

What a weird way to be overtly sexist when you don’t even know the genders of the people involved.
Yes. I suppose my sarcasm didn't come through very well. To paraphrase a popular meme, Plato is only known to us today via his wrestling nickname. His opinion on leadership was that a philosopher-king, somebody both thoughtful and powerful, should dictate society. In his own life, he was politically entangled, but he was never given the power that he felt he earned.

I'm also reminded of Idiocracy, which checks all of the same boxes. I don't know whether Mike Judge was thinking of Plato, though.
You did? With 11% of the company?

> Amazon's chief executive officer (CEO) and founder, Jeff Bezos, is the company's biggest shareholder, with 55.5 million shares representing 11.1% of outstanding shares.
https://www.focusmate.com/
Obverse and Under (2019)
> Especially when I learned how much the translator of Wind-Up Bird, Jay Rubin, and the American publishers played with the structure of the book

Wait, sorry, what? How does a translation mess with the overall structure of the book? That doesn’t sound like a translation problem.
Show HN: HighlightedTextEditor, a SwiftUI view with live syntax highlighting
I'm glad you think so; many northsiders do not! But you know that, for example, the Near North Side has an average price per sq foot that is $50-100 higher than the Near South Side.
As a small developer who lives entirely from software sales, a large part of which are in the form of monthly subscriptions, I think this author misses an important reason for using subscriptions:

N. You want to smooth out the monthly income associated with sales, avoiding big peaks when you do major releases and avoiding large troughs when there are no releases for some time.

Put differently, if you want me to keep wprking full time on the software, help offer me some assurance that I'll still be able to afford to do so in a month, or 3 months, or 6 months time.
Also, I'm curious of the mechanism by which Woodward releasing this earlier would lead to 200k lives saved. I'm struggling to make the connection in terms of alternative approaches that would have completely eliminated COVID in the US (in the sense that it appears to have been eliminated in China)- only aggressive containment of citizens would have had any real effect on the scale you're describing.
Can confirm!

Just the other day I decided to try out these instructions to blink an LED: https://jonathanklimt.de/electronics/programming/embedded-ru...

Took about 10 minutes to get an LED blinking, about half of which was just figuring out what (C language) USB libraries I needed to install to get the "cargo flash" command to compile. I used to do a lot of microprocessor development in C and ASM. This is the easiest experience I've ever had in getting one up and running with fully open source tooling (many microprocessor vendors do have quite good closed-source tooling).

While I haven't actually done a real project yet, the hardware abstraction libraries look much safer to use than any of the C/ASM toolkits I've used. The reason being, the API's are designed to leverage Rust's borrow checker and other safety features to make sure errors in use and configuration of the hardware are caught at compile time.

Also worth reading: https://rust-embedded.github.io/book/
Do you know anywhere I can buy these?

Someone should sell them in packs of 100 on Amazon...
Sure. He says it on Shark Tank a lot. In many episodes, Mark rejects the company because the founder isn't good at business (despite their tech) or isn't a tech person but is trying to get into a tech biz.
So the metrics where misleading because testing was not constant and/or performed same way across the same population distribution?
https://greenwichuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3x...

So you don't have to hunt for it too.
I'm not sure if this is it, but assuming the correctness of the test is independent of the sample quality, a sample could be split and tested multiple times to obtain a result with a much better FPR.
With this, could you not also use say balloons to get the rocket up till a particular point, and then switch to beamed power?
Not necessarily. Digitally animated movies (where the original project files are lost) have been remastered. A proper remaster would involve going frame by frame and smoothing errors from upscaling.
Its in the article. ISM band. typically 2.4-5.8GHz. there are a number of safety measures. some based on a feedback loop, laser safety screen and others. cant go over all those details in a gimmicky article :))
Most cows are not grass-fed (too expensive, too much land required) and are therefore in cages being fed... soy based products.
I needed a Markdown editor SwiftUI view for my app and there were not a lot of options available! Nobody had what I wanted, which was a text editor that dynamically highlights the text as you type. So, I ended up learning way too much about NSAttributedStrings and built HighlightedTextView. I hope you all like it and use it!

https://github.com/kyle-n/HighlightedTextEditor
Because “Amazon” is a name that in 1997 implied online bookstore? Or “Twitter” implied microblogging platform in 2008? I feel you’re over thinking it because you do know what MIME means in this case, for the average person that doesn’t, they very likely won’t think twice about it.
MW of power in 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands???

Are you gonna screw with my WiFi way over here in Sydney?

;-)
Lojban, “the most logical language in the world”
To veer off the topic of eugenics a little.

> We don't really know what makes someone "better", we don't know how to do it, and we don't even know how to define "better".

All of your problems go away if we use a "better" definition of "better".

What makes someone a "better" leader? That they were educated and raised in a "better" way. What makes that way "better"? Well, it should be evident - it, after all, produces "better" leaders.

True, it does lead to a kind of circular thinking, but that's allright - a lot of ink gets spilled to justify subjective preferences on objective grounds, like the ones I just described. If people can feel utterly convinced that by applying such circular criteria, they can demarcate that one piece of music is objectively better than another, surely those people would feel just as justified to use such circular criteria to decide that one leader's education, and upbringing, and social background is objectively better than another.

As long as you can let current leaders pick future leaders, you will indeed have a definition of "better". You might not like that definition very much, though.
Anecdotally I've heard this isn't the case, but I don't have links.
Too right, soy never caused a pandemic...
If you don't own your platform, the platform owns you.
I've been fascinated by the mechanisms behind human facial recognition ever since I read Peter Watts 'Blindsight'. Near the end he introduces an idea similar to the Chernoff face[1], plots of multivariate data in the shape of a human face. The idea is that humans are so keyed into recognizing subtle nuances in facial expressions, we're better at interpreting mulitvariate data graphed as a facial expression.

Some interesting parts from this interview:

- She surprisingly claims that she's not good at recognizing emotions.

- She can recognize adults based on how they looked as children. This suggests there's a sort of 'fuzzing' process that allows her to interpolate aging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
Bingo. Already happened on the street behind my house. AT&T has copper where most of the pairs have been damaged over the decades and they just shrug about it.
I mostly agree- its very hard to imagine any SCC for a communication service/social network surviving this kind of complaint. Not so sure about other kinds of things.
Think bigger. Maybe things that businesses build are not the right things?
I stand by my view that anyone should have right to kill themselves.

I would be very sad if someone close to me did so but that shouldn't stop them from doing it. I consider this a basic freedom of being a living creature. If you don't have the power to end your life then do you really own it?
It seems slightly disingenuous to refer to this as “Spotify Developer Tools” while linking to a script specifically for deleting (or unfollowing, rather) playlists. That said, if this was expanded into some slightly broader wrapper around more of the API’s functionality, that could be really useful!
The most dangerous leaders in history have been those who do it out of ideology. That group includes Hitler, Lenin, Mao, bin Laden, et al.

We want people who are attracted to politics out of a sense of responsibility. Folks who feel a bond of both trust and obligation towards the people they lead. Both ideology and financial gain optimize for the wrong things.
Portland Passes Groundbreaking Ban on Facial Recognition
Far less than beef: https://impossiblefoods.com/mission/lca-update-2019/
I have not but that's only because I had never heard of it.

Will check it out
kudos for the website
A simple answer may be Darwinism. The politicians that survive are politicians that seek re-election. The 'why' they originally go into politics (money or ideology) may be irrelevant as a fitness function for this sort of thing. (And eventually, as t -> ∞, the percentage of politicians that seek re-election will -> 100%.)
This is a serious problem in many ways.

Ethics can be a distraction from justice.

Ethics sites the problem in the algorithm, whereas justice sites the problem in the power differential.

People generally trust computers more than random human decisions, and computers can automate the repercussions of their decisions quickly. If you work hourly at a government job, and you get your hours yanked when you're judged a risk, without time for an appeal, things spiral out of your control, exacerbating oppression.
You must live in a different reality than me. There are many times when my LTE is better than any WiFi and that includes at work (pre-COVID) and home.
What is the difference between Avalonia and Xamarin?
if you don't intend to mess with hardware, just get any random Intel atom mini-pc, you can get them for way under $100.

these things will give you like 5KB/s in bandwidth, and that's after spending months figuring out how to get networking working on them. (I am assuming you have no embedded computing experience here)

In fact scratch that, none of these even have enough resources to handle TLS/SSL for one connection.
Wikimedia Foundation: Universal Code of Conduct/Draft Review
You're probably thinking of Beyond Meat, which uses pea protein.
a "disordered immune response" typically means an immune system that is not working properly, which may be genetic, etc but is more likely a deficiency. This is how I understand it, but I'm open for counter-references.

>Thus you don't want to "activate the immune system"

This is exactly what the adjuvants in vaccines do. But I'm talking about "boosting" the immune system - make sure it's working effectively which means it's got the right molecules to do what it needs to. Vitamin supplements (specifically in the case of deficiency) should allow the immune system to "do its job".
Even blade runner? I felt like it was quite impactful from an emotional level. He does approach subjects where the characters are rational though.
Jesus. I would personally pay 24k to secure a facial recognition ban for an entire major American city. Is that all it takes?
Thanks for the info. Good luck with the company.
I remember trying to think about something similar when I wanted to invent a language that tries to stay as close to “everything is an X” as possible. (But it was a mess, unfortunately)

I would use “return scope”.
If you are using 2.4 GHz, how are you remaining in the near field yet extending the distances out to many km?

At 2.4GHz, λ is approximately 0.125m. Since the wavelength is small, the antenna is likely to be "electromagnetically long", i.e. the size of the antenna is of comparable size to the wavelength.

The edge of the near field in this case is defined by the Fraunhofer Distance [0][1]. Let's assume we want the edge of the near field to be 1km away. Running that through the Fraunhofer distance equation to compute the largest dimension of the radiator, we get ~7.9m. That's huge. For 10km it is 25m.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_and_far_field#Electromagn...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_distance
In this case it's definitely more about the quality of the animal's condition while being raised. I do buy this shops sausages because they custom make them from the same livestock. I guess my main point is that I've been trying to avoid anything that comes from a factory farm and substituting that with impossible product.
> Well, the majority still aren't buying. The initial assertion was "in every home", which is false in the majority of homes.

Are we assuming that all the individuals who purchased the devices live completely alone? There are only 128 million households in the US. [0]

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-househo...
Yeah I caught that too. The whole book was a critique of colonialism, unsustainable capitalism, and deconstruction of the white savior complex. I hope he doesn’t shy away from these subjects.
Probably thinking about west coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Its rugged weather down there, still no mobile reception for most of it, sparsely populated and right up against the Alps.

They struggle to get powerlines/phone lines through already so I'm not surprised they're thinking this might be a valid option to relay power for small settlements.
Fair enough.

> which language is "fastest"

Isn't that question too loose to be useful?

Isn't it necessary to show that performance measures are representative if we want to claim they are?
> which of course led to hundreds of fake and infected apps on the net, harming users.

The app stores are facilitating that in a way though. They're keeping the users as dumb as possible and not making any effort to differentiate between legitimate or malicious apps that are sideloaded.

If it were a matter of going to epicgames.com, clicking "Install for Android", and confirming a prompt that says "You're about to install an app from epicgames.com", I think it would be a lot easier to train users to understand that.
I suspect that why Apple prevents using NVidia is because they won't support Metal and force support CUDA.
We will! We're starting with web first towards the end of this year, but we're targeting Android next year.
The vast majority of soy production is for animal feed. By diverting that directly to feeding people, you eliminate an entire trophic level.

Edit: Failed to mention that a lot of deforestation is done to facilitate the growth of soy. Take for example the Amazon.
Running SSH would be ridiculously slow. HTTP, a bit less slow. HTTPS slow as molasses again.
Is GSV Passport for Real?
They 'offer' $1k for most startups in Amazon credits for a $50 yearly paid membership (more of other 'tiers'). Is this real or a scam? Anyone tried it?
While Mac computers aren't bad, its generally a consensus that they are not worth the price for any tangible thing (same performance/functionality and the ability to repair the computer easily can be had for lower cost).

This is also compounded by the recent bloat in Catalina with permissions, and continuous locking down of Apple to the point where you can't run a lot of free software on it (like VMWare Player) that you can on other computers.

There is definitely an aspect of aesthetics when it comes to why people purchase this, so the guy you are replying to is kinda correct.
I find it pretty crazy that suicide is considered bad, it's kind of selfish honestly. Of course there's a lot of situations in which the way the person feels is just temporary, but a lot of suicides aren't a spur of the moment decision. People often think about such an important decision very carefully.

The lengths psychiatric institutions and society is willing to go in order to deny you the choice of living is absolutely disgusting.
Go to a very expensive restaurant, your mind will be blown how good meat can taste. Food with lots of spices tends to hide the quality of the raw ingredients, but on their own tofu and meat are no competition in terms of taste.
Ask HN: What is one thing that got worse since the Internet Age?
There are things like Fake News and other misinformation that spreads much quicker, but I'm interested in more mundane things, like how I stopped reading books at the library, or how the existence of GPS essentially prevents me from remembering roads/highways nowadays, making me miss exits.
Did you switch from r/wallstreetbets to selling gold miners their shovels? A very successful approach.
Not all. Some parts require proprietary tools to build a full firmware image for the chip, to debug the part, or to write to the target's onboard flash. Thankfully, these are all getting less common -- but there's still some out there. For instance, the Cypress PSoC requires Cypress's tools to generate configuration data for the part's configurable digital blocks -- there isn't enough information in the reference manual to do this yourself.
This article is great, but misses the mark by focusing on this arbitrary $1 price point. For a hobbyist, a dollar or ten is all the same. These very cheap chips are intended for high volume applications, far from the realm of DIY.

If you’re doing a hobby project, take something off the top of the line. Having all those peripherals and compute power is just one thing less to worry about.
Nice catch. No judgment yet, but feels like bowdlerization to me.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowdlerize
I personally still wouldn't risk it.
Orson Scott Card has no grounds to sue an actual Speaker for the Dead. No one will confuse the two.
> It's like ecological herd immunity.

I would think the closer analogy to a pandemic would be that it calms down when it kills nearly everyone. But, I suppose that is herd immunity in some sense.
Stadia is non-executable but Apple bans. They just banning what they don't want.