skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. I think the argument is that it's all the wrong type of communism, and the wrong type of socialism, and of anarchy, and the wrong type of every other "this will bring us to paradise" idea. And it's wrong, not because the ideas are necessarily wrong, but because they're run by people. Specifically, they're run by people (call them type 1) who think that having other people (type 2) believe in a utopian ideal is a great way for type 1 people to get put in positions of power. The type 2 people put them in such positions so that they can create the utopia, but the type 1 people don't do that once they get in power. Instead, they just do whatever lets them hold on to the power.

It's not just the wrong type of communism. It's the wrong type of human beings.

Personally, I think that this take is somewhat too cynical... but only somewhat. There are people who are genuinely trying to make things better. Not nearly as many as are saying that they're trying to do so, but more than zero.
This is incidentally why the Common Lisp file I/O functions are a bit more complicated than you might expect. You can ignore most of it if you assume something vaguely POSIX-like, but if you want to be portable to e.g. both Unix and VMS (as was once desirable), there are functions like make-pathname that build a representation of a file location from up to 6 parameters (host, device, directory, name, type, and version). The 3 examples in the docs are interesting: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_mk_pn.htm
I didn't say anyone was more or less "Californian." I was trying to illustrate that every activity in life has some level of risk associated with it and we are all balancing those risks every day.

Temperatures during this heatwave were indeed impressive, but there weren't any other particularly remarkable weather patterns associated (like wind or thunderstorms), that was the point I was trying to make. I never said it was normal, just that it wasn't as extraordinarily risky as many in this thread are claiming.
Erm, loads of countries don't require employees to file taxes. Your employer takes care of it for you.

If you have an unusual tax situation you have to do it still, but 99% of people just have 1 job with 1 salary.
> The mind boggles at using it in a mission-critical environment and speaks to how dire and ridiculous the situation was in the late 90s due to Microsoft shenanigans and competitor blunders.

Or due to the fact that Win95 was actually a very good user-friendly graphical operating system. There were very few that could really compete. Despite all the shenanigans.

> Depending on budget one of these paths should be taken:

You just mentioned mission-critical systems in the previous paragraph. None of the paths are valid upgrade paths. Especially not if you want to "whip up a native GUI with a requirement for un unmaintained driver".

Just reverse-engineering the driver for a train would be a major undertaking. And that's before you try to add an UI on top of that.
Same discussion, different site from 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383264
> And if it wasn't a toy, then their actions don't seem 100% unreasonable.

No it is completely unreasonable. It's not the the schools business if I give my child a gun. Back in the day, children used to bring guns to school so they could shoot or hunt after without stopping by home to pick it up. At most, the school should have called the parents first and they can decide what's best.
Yes absolutely this! Amazon customer support is beyond reproach. I even had free prime for about a year because every time a parcel arrived a day late, they'd give me an extra couple of months of prime.

I don't like it that amazon is taking over everything, but it's happening because they're really good at what they do.
That sounds great! Have done similar things and recommend.
It's not so clear to be honest. The global population is growing and leading to environmental disasters, and it's not clear why we need 10 billion people on this planet, rather than a more manageable 100 million.
Well to be specific, buying the iPhone comes with access to apps through the the App Store, not any software that you like. That's clear to almost everyone I would think. And it comes without any statement/guarantee about how Apple charges the developers or the agreements there. Most people have no idea, and don't care.

Some apps choose to make their apps free, others choose to charge fees. Some want to have their in-app purchases charged 30%, others don't.

Lots of products charge you an upfront fee, and then more fees for various things in addition. I don't think you've got much of a leg to stand on with that argument. That would be like saying, I paid for my cell phone, I don't think that cellular carriers should charge me again for the monthly service -- they should bundle it all one.

It's a design and pricing choice. And you buy in or you don't.
how many dev hours did it take to build it and how many dev hours / year does it currently take to maintain/update it?
America will never be invaded (never being heat death of sun), it could only devolve into civil war if education levels get low enough...
Yes, but figuring out whether something is safe is different than figuring out whether is something is effective.

To answer the efficacy question you would look at the infection and mortality rate of the experimental group and compare it to the rates of the control group. There is a minimum number of infection events needed in the control group for the comparison to be statistically significant, hence the long trial periods.

To answer the safety question I assumed you would wait some X period of time and evaluate the incidence of severe side effects that may have been caused by the vaccine. This analysis wouldn't be dependent on results to the control group. I assume this analysis can be sufficiently done with the current phase 3 trial data we have based on Fauci saying the only thing we are waiting for is events in the control group.

I didn't consider the potential safety issue that the vaccine could potentially make the vaccine worse. This safety analysis would also be dependent on control group events.
I think AR already has taken of. Many modern cars have an AR display that combines a the view from a rear view camera with the projected trajectory of the car.

Some luxury cars have a heads-up display for night vision capabilities.

The best AR may be so subtle that people don’t even realize it is AR.
At my team we "ticket" presentation prep just like dev work. So if you wanna do some sort of story point / ticket anlalysis per dev is no different.
Just do yourself a favor and relearn basic human empathy again.
The sad part to me as an iOS developer is that Apple is essentially calling iOS a "service."

I'm a huge Apple fan, but they have been digging themselves a grave in terms of developer goodwill with their reaction to these lawsuits.
> but instead people don’t care about the talks.

Are you taking into account this kind of comment by Dan Luu[1]:

"Most people consider doing 30 practice runs for a talk to be absurd, a totally obsessive amount of practice, but I think Gary Bernhardt has it right when he says that, if you're giving a 30-minute talk to a 300 person audience, that's 150 person-hours watching your talk, so it's not obviously unreasonable to spend 15 hours practicing (and 30 practice runs will probably be less than 15 hours since you can cut a number of the runs short and/or repeatedly practice problem sections). One thing to note that this level of practice, considered obessive when giving a talk, still pales in comparison to the amount of time a middling table tennis club player will spend practicing."

From that, you might ask your presenters to do 2-4 hours of rehearsal, and for the talk to generate $2,000 of value before it's worth running / worth attending.

I feel many talks are "what the presenter wants to talk about" not "what the audience wants to hear". At least at a tech conference or on YouTube you can self-select so those two overlap. Inside a company, less so, so it's more important that they are done well, actionable, preferably short. They can't solely be mandatory. or solely fun for the presenter. And they certainly can't be spinning a tale of a utopian future for the company which is worse for me personally, or teasing me with a future tool or process or change which is better for me personally but which the company won't permit or won't get behind or actively opposes.

[1] https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
MFEM – a free lightweight scalable C++ library for finite element methods
> I think if I'd kept the laptop I'd have been guilty of receiving stolen property

It sounds like the laptop was paid for, but potentially with stolen credit cards? Is that the same as the laptop being considered stolen property?
Many MCUs / SoCs support DMA into tightly coupled memories. Very useful for "ping-pong buffering" to hide memory copying overhead - copying one buffer into a TCM bank while the processor works on a different TCM bank.
What is boggling my mind about this is that Apple CLEARLY has a case because Epic violated the TOS, but they're stretching waaaaaay out there with the dramatic language and seeking punitive damages.

(Especially since... come on, punitive damages for something that was live for less than 24 hours?)
Lidar is becoming a real business
> It is reasonable to charge developers for development tools, but if that's what you want to do, just charge them for development tools.

This isn't how the software development eco-system works. There are tonnes of examples of providing free development tools with restrictions on use and revenue sharing agreements. For example, there's this little known company called Epic Games which provides the Unreal Engine for free- but with the following clause:

> This license is free to use and incurs 5% royalties when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your lifetime gross revenues from that product exceed $1,000,000 USD.

And Epic doesn't even provide quality control, a discovery mechanism, or payment processing.
Why? I pay property tax which mostly goes to education. Why can I not have choice in how that is spent on the education of my children?
You made a little feint there in your second sentence of the second paragraph -- who said anything about fascism? I suspect it might be you that doesn't know what alt-right means in your confusion between the two. That would also explain your waving away the reality that classical liberalism underpins much of the alt-right movement. You might notice many folks espousing the views of one Ayn Rand, for example.

Beyond that, and returning to the actual subject at hand, there is very little "deconstruction" -- to the extent that is a thing, in the show. Perhaps in the early days. It has long since devolved in to a Trump apologist show, regurgitating Fox News and Breitbart talking points. You need only look to see where else Curry has appeared.
Sure, who even needs a regulator if pharmaceutical companies will just promise not to bring products to market unless they are "safe and effective".
It's possible OP's view will change, but I bet most people can accurately infer how they'll feel about car software based on how they feel about other software.

I hate software that changes constantly and is mostly out of my control, and will avoid it when possible. For that reason I'll never buy a Tesla. Some people love software that updates constantly and, IME, those are the same people who really like their Teslas.
Idk. I think framing the problem in this way is missing a huge piece of the problem. Just because people want or demand a thing doesn’t mean that we as a society are going to be able to deliver it.

I think we need to think seriously about the fact that, even if COVID goes away, lockdowns like this could become part of the “new normal” (?) anyways. And by the time that happens a lot of affected businesses will already be gone or have to change.
You'd be surprised how often people can't express the problem and can't find the proper software solution.

A lot of manpower in most organizations is wasted because they can't find a contractor who will listen to their problems and actually try to fix them.
I'm already suffering withdrawal even with no shutdown announcement by keybase. There just isn't anything as easy and comprehensive out there.

I don't use all keybase features actively (wallet, looking at you) but the small use I make of everything else warrants me saying I wished they had a paying tier before they sold themselves.
But not stress about the coronavirus.

Stress from a change in routine and the lag in managing that. Ie. Buying a proper home office.
The missing cornerstone is native databinding. That's it. If we had native reactive HTML templating, 80% of the world's JavaScript could go away. The fundamental problem of the web as an application platform is that any element-state is trapped inside a single element, so you have to use JavaScript to dig it out and do something with it.

For example, HTML has a native <dialog> element, did you know that? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...

Most people don't, because it's completely useless without some JavaScript to toggle its "open" attribute. This was by design. The requisite interactivity across elements simply can't happen without a) databinding, or b) a whole turing-complete language. Since we don't have a, we use b.
> your buying the iPhone comes with access to apps through the the App Store, not any software that you like

And that's a problem. I am buying an iPhone, per Apple, not renting it. Therefore I should be allowed to run whatever I please on my hardware.
Nina Kollars had a nice related talk during Defcon on a similar scam buying what she thought was gray market Nespresso pods whose "seller" bought for her using a stolen credit card. They also gave her a free Nespresso machine, presumably to give her motive to keep quiet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IT2oAzTcvU&ab_channel=DEFCO...
Anyone remembers Novel NSS? Even when it got ported to Linux as part of Open Enterprise Server it lacked a lot of POSIX features. The ACLs were the weirdest part since they had to be configured in eDirectory’s LDAP console.
> you wouldn't see much of a need for those do-it-yourself types to accumulate wealth just for the sake of doing so.

Exactly this.

Money is a way to get other people to do things for you.

If you are happier doing the things yourself, the money doesn't have much use.

At a certain point, gaining more wealth just doesn't matter.
Then how it's gonna kill Tesla?
https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

Liked using this. I wrote a TUI for my company's api with it. I dont use the website much any more.
The WebP at near the same size as AVIF preserved more of the dark road texture, but for the more saturated parts the AVIF had more edge detail. I'd like to see more examples to see what types of detail/textures AVIF favors dropping vs line edge details it preserves.
Yeah, I saw this counter argument before, and I wonder the same thing, but does intellectual consistency matter much in the court of law?
The article claims something I found surprising -- that the written word was not common near Germany until about 1000 AD.
Since the drive can be used to store and share docs related to sensitive topics such as covid, will this prevent it from being used in the Apple store unless they put filters into the app?
> I (wrongly?) never had the impression

Yes, wrongly.
calcifediol (0.266 mg; 15,960 IU calcifediol)
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016124724A1/en

so may be 32.000 IU ???
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly and we're trying for something different here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> If there is no contract (Ea a purchase request/ intend) than anything a company Can send to a consumer is a gift.

I understand that there are restrictions to unsolicited goods, perhaps even a ban.

But an absence of contract does not make something a gift. Whether something is a gift or an offer to purchase or anything else depends on the facts, it's not implied.

So either there is a statute that says this case is legally treated as a gift or the item remain the property of the sender until the intention is clear.

Edit: There is indeed a law that makes it a gift (from EU Directive you mention, perhaps). See my previous comment above. This is indeed required because as explained it cannot be implied.
The contract developers have with Apple involves use of Apple's property.

A contract may not be enforceable, but only if it contradicts the law. In this instance, I don't see how.
>>If anything, I'm thankful for all those people with kids who will

Bravo!! Your choice or luck in life is yours. But kids will pay for your social security, will pay taxes to maintain the city/state/country and will be the soldiers and military guarding you. That's just the selfish part.
Surprised no mention of plan9's FS. It always seemed like the core innovation in plan9.

Basically, everything is a file. But to a ridiculous extent, far beyond what you'd normally think of as files. It's been years since I looked into it though, so maybe I'm misremembering.

Designing it that way has lots of advantages. For example, you can connect computers together via networks using the equivalent of `cat`. (And yes, we have netcat, but it's not quite the same thing as having the abstraction built into the OS.)
Well, it certainly seems clear from a facts point of view at least, that Epic was engineering the plan to test Apple.

They prepared a release that contained the ability to bypass the payment mechanism. Then they did that, and told Apple that was what they were doing. And then launched a big marketing campaign to rally support for it.

At least in facts, this wasn't a sudden action by Apple to crush an unsuspecting little player.
I'm guessing that apple is trying to push their claim as far as they can to set case law as far out as they can. This kind of case decided in their favor can move that overton window quite a bit
The 1976 swine flu vaccine was similarly rushed and look how it turned out.

I trust scientist to provide something that is safe, but if their decisions are overridden by a politician (doesn't matter whether Republican or Democrat) that is something that seriously dissolves that trust.
The New York Times has a chart, updated daily, of all the vaccines in development.[1] This is worldwide, not US.

Phase I: 24

Phase 2: 14

Phase 3: 9

Limited approval: 3 (CanSinoBio, Gamaleya Research Institute (Russia), Sinovac)

Full approval: 0

That's not even including the hundred or so still in lab or animal testing. It's encouraging; something is likely to work.

The real question is, how effective are the ones that make through the safety tests? Nobody really knows yet. The FDA (pre-Trump push) announced that their minimal effectiveness for approval was 50%, which is low for a vaccine. Moderna is aiming for 60%. Effectiveness times fraction of population getting it has to be > 70% or so to stop the epidemic with a vaccine alone. That's the "herd immunity" fraction for a disease with a growth rate of 3.

Useful questions:

- If a vaccine is only partially effective, will an antibody test tell if it worked?

- Will taking one vaccine limit the effectiveness of another vaccine taken later? That's happened for a few vaccines.[2] It's usually more of a timing thing; some vaccines should not be given within a few weeks of other vaccines.[3]

- Could widespread use of a moderately effective vaccine cause people to abandon mask-type precautions and cause an epidemic spike in the unprotected part of the population?

Is someone working those issues effectively?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21645515.2015.10...

[3] https://www.ok.gov/health2/documents/IMM_PRG_5-20_Intervals_...
I have. I have a lot of empathy for children who are going hungry because their parents brought them into this world without a means to support them. I have a lot of empathy for children who are unwanted, ignored, and otherwise harmed by "inconvenienced" parents.

I have no empathy - I have nothing but contempt - for the parents who bring those children into this world.
Our society is not organized collectively -- so you don't really give a shit about your co-workers kids. This is the origin of all the anxiety. You would not worry about sacrificing your time to help them, if you knew them.

It is a simple fix, if companies were formed more like actual communities. Unfortunately, with specialized labor, this is pretty much impossible.

There is a great book, called, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", by a french psychoanalyst and philosopher duo, Deleuze and Guetarri. They get into why this organizational structure often lead to a profound disconnect by consolidating aspects of production into silos, as described above.
This should alarm any developer. Any iOS developer could be at risk to pay Apple punitive damages whenever they determine their rules have been broken.
Licensing in a Post Copyright World (2013)
At Least 37M People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror
I still use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS
> Therefore I should be allowed to run whatever I please on my hardware.

Well, that can definitely be your opinion. But whether that's fact or supported by our current laws is not at all certain. Let's at least be clear what's fact and what's desire.
Even worse. $100 is for individual developers, it’s $299 per year for organizations.

Google asks for $25, once, for a team that can be an individual or an organization, as you wish.
It could also simply mean that every reign has a natural end. Power inheritance tends not to go well in non-free societies, even if it does sometime manage to last a few lifetimes.
All their employees are wasting time making the world a worse place anyway or going round in circles... And the corporations are getting free money from the Fed... So they should just give all their employees free money.
You’re off by a factor of 4. US GDP is a little over $20T/year, and dropped a little under 10% 2020q2, so a drop of about $500B.
High-stakes legal battles don't work the way you think they should.
> So, he's saying that SPAs are bad and we should invest in a Chrome-only feature or future feature that might make it through standards?

I don't think so. The video takes a couple of interesting turns for me. I thought it was "JavaScript...bad!", but then he converted to a discussion of <portal>, which I thought is where he would end. But the last few minutes he spends on a much higher level point, which makes me think the portal discussion is just an example. In the spirit of your summary, here's my own:

The web platform is evolving. While some of our work exceeds the capabilities of least powerful part of that platform (HTML/CSS) and therefore requires JavaScript, much of it does not. Notably, as the web platform evolves, features that used to require JavaScript no longer will. This suggests a "principle of least power" argument: make an effort to learn about the new advances in HTML/CSS so you can leverage them for as many features as you can, and push the rest into JavaScript. He contrasts this approach with the "just use JavaScript for everything" approach, which carries with it all the risks he outlines in the first part of the video.