skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are exactly two (AppStores)

> How many of those are installed on more than 1% of mobile devices (however broadly construed)?

> I doubt that they do more than 1% of the total app transactions

These goal posts keep moving
> With nuclear you still need storage to flatten the peaks and troughs though right?

Why? Just build more. Keep expanding capacity so the base load covers the peaks and thensome. Push the price of electricity down while keeping it carbon-neutral and crush competition. Get everyone 2c/kwh power. Wouldn't that be more fun?
How does Night Mode work?
This will likely end up happening anyway.

The amount of children we’d need to become next generation workers and support our generation are exponential and cannot be sustained. I suspect that as for the last decade or two, old age benefits will keep shrinking and shrinking anyway because there is no way we can keep having, feeding, and sustaining the exponential numbers required.
It's like the ex-girlfriend who came back because she found out you are with someone else.
I am reminded of two curious statements which are not normally linked:

(0) There could be a Siegel zero [0], like an "indentation" in the Riemann zeta function. The prime numbers need to all collaborate to "shift" the zeta function a little in order to "buckle" the zeta function at the Siegel zero, so there's only really enough room in the primes to accomodate one Siegel zero at most.

(1) Ultrafinitism [1] comes in many flavors, including a flavor where there is a single largest prime number [2]. In this ultrafinite physical world, the largest prime determines how large any object can be before folding back in on itself. Since this would be a true statement about natural numbers, it would also be a sort of conspiracy amongst the primes, with only one instance.

Situations like this article remind me of both simultaneously: If there's any sort of conspiracy amongst the primes to forge a Siegel zero, it would have to be the same conspiracy which produces an ultrafinite prime candidate; the primes don't have bandwidth for two conspiracies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel_zero

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism

[2] https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimPDF/...
I don't understand the name either, but I am glad the project exists.
Which has policies that can be enabled to block it if necessary
I always look on how the game do the math, once I know how it computes probability I always lose interest on it. Discovering that through game play is entertaining for me.
That’s my point. It’s all about assumptions. Exactly as with the article being discussed in this thread.
Such articles have little value to understanding truth. But they help with superspreading fear.
There is some variability in the state of cities across Pakistan.

Karachi is the largest and most dense city by a significant margin, so its needs are much greater.

In comparison, Lahore, the second largest city in the country, and the premier city of the affluent province of Punjab hosts far better infrastructure. Consequently, it suffers a mere fraction of the magnitude of such issues as Karachi. In addition to a different geography, which, of course, is a significant factor, Lahore has received much greater investment of political will, civic planning and funds.
thanks :) ;p xx
Side note: macOS ships with Disk Utility, which as far as I know can do exactly this, relatively easily, so I don’t think you need 3rd-party software.
You can’t search email bodies only subject lines.
Honestly, I think this makes it an even better analogy! Apple is exactly like the dealership groups suing Tesla to prevent them from selling directly to consumers.
Why does anyone write anything on the internet? Why am I writing this? People write for lots of reasons, and the motivation for writing walkthoughs and FAQs aren't any different to anything else: because people like expressing themselves, they like getting recognition (even if it's meaningless internet points), they're writing something to use themself, or they like the idea of helping out a project they support.
Yeah. Well designed strategy games can capture the attention of even not great gamers. I've played like 50+ hours of slay the spire and I think I've won like 5 times, but I enjoy it nonetheless because the design is fantastic and the complex mechanics explain themselves.
These were just special coaches added to high speed express trains. So the system was interconnected to the system of HS passenger trains as a shared infrastructure.
The Fed buys them, also they expire so they can simply stop buying more.
It has a policy as well and will always allow you to disable it. No need for hyperbole.
> You make text in one place bold, and all the sudden some of your footnote text on a different page becomes bold.

Tbqh, this is my experience in just about every rich text editor. Well, maybe not quite that bad, but I’ll always bold a word, and then while editing I have to go back and change the word after it, and it will suddenly be bold.

I wish bold/italics/etc acted like caps lock. It’s either on or it’s off, and the computer doesn’t try to guess for me.
Creator of ‘Civilization’ Looks Back at One of Longest Careers in the Industry
A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’?
Sounds like having your libraries stored in git repos and then having your programs point to the commit they want to use. Something like this would solve headaches that there are innumerable tools for. A much more elegant solution for the problems things like pyenv or nix are attempting to solve.
This study is for parents born in the 1910s to 1920s. The reasons for being childless then are vastly different to today, so I doubt the results carry.
Can it be run on modern Linux?
Ask HN: Solo bootstrapped founders, how did you do pre-sales?
I've read a lot of stories where successful solo founders mention the importance of pre-sales (which I agree with).

Founders on here who have done pre-sales: Could you please share your experience? How many tries did it take? How did you reach your prospect? Was it inbound or outbound?

I'm a solo dev building my own SaaS in a space where a few products exist (bootstrapped and funded) with revenues ranging from few hundred thousand to millions. I'm confident of building it on my own (doing this right now). But I'm looking to do a pre-sale and reading about your experience could help!
It's not clear to me how the Native File System API relates to the existing File System API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem

Is Google proposing this as a replacement? As a supplement?

I made heavy use of the FileSystem API in a cross platform educational application a few years ago, tripping over a really hairy memory leak bug in Webkit along the way. By the end of that project the API had been deprecated, but apparently now it isn't any more and instead it's experimental? I have no idea what that means.
There is also https://fyyd.de (it is integrated into https://antennapod.org).
Data is easily harvested in Firefox and Safari too
I can think of two scenarios where this security feature is helpful.

First, somebody breaks into a server room, replaces the motherboard with a compromised one, and notices mid replacement that they forgot a processor. (Since the processor locks during first boot, it is of no use if the supply chain is compromised before the first boot. On the other hand, I would imagine somebody willing to break into a data center to replace a motherboard would also be willing to do all kinds of other shenanigans, like bringing another processor.)

The second scenario is, somebody thinks about buying a used instead of an new processor.
They made no judgement of parents. They spoke of widening benefits to apply to everyone not just those with kids.
They might resent the app store more if they knew Apple gets 30%. Which is why nobody is supposed to tell.
Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images
It wouldn't work - the towers would need to be heavier to handle the extra weight of the gravity storage, denying all benefits.
>LineageOS unofficial fork with built-in microG gapps implementation
Why wait? it's always been possible and legal, just like Kcups and Juicero do, or did.
No, it means that 94% still died due to COVID, but had pre-existing conditions that made them more susceptible. These are not people that likely would have been on the brink of death otherwise... that is the common misunderstanding in this misinformation.

Over 40% of the US is obese, for example, which increases your likelihood of a fatal outcome. So if you are obese and 40, it’s unlikely that you’d otherwise die in 2020. But if you get Covid and die from it, you’re a part of that 94%.
The principal investigator of the trial knows who got placebo and who did not, although neither the people working on the data nor the clinical staff know.

It's likely that the participant will be "unmasked" to see why the adverse event occurred.
> Stop trying to spread the idea that the ability to make apps for the iPhone is an inalienable right.

Yes, but neither should Apple have the right to prevent users from using alternative app stores and applications on their own iPhones.
I love how easy it is to construct such custom solutions for niche problems. So much power that I think more people ought to have access to.
Nevertheless, they have the time to make these small improvements. Also, I don’t agree with your last sentence as there are decision makers who do research, and others in their organization who definitely do research because they don’t want to hire you.
OK but that's not how automatic differentiation would work?
Definitely there are more lemons on Apple’s App Store these days, but it’s still the case that fragmentation in the kingdom of the fruits is so much lower that producing a decent app is just easier than on the Google stack.
I think a lot of ammo for anti-vaxers comes from the government and media not being completely honest about vaccine side-effects. That's because it is difficult for an individualist or a socialist to separate public health from individual health. The CDC is not your personal physician. The CDC worries when newspapers publish facts about vaccines, such that some vaccines can cause severe and traumatic side effects, while being 52% effective, because they worry about obtaining herd immunity and need people to accept the vaccine for that. They want you to go through weird little side-effects, like not enjoying alcohol for months, so you don't infect a senior they count in the flu statistics. It's when "do no harm" means sacrificing the lives of a few to save the many.

Then there are political and funding concerns. If your own government funds your research to investigate if Agent Orange is harmful to the point of culpability costing billions, you are very careful and delicate with your conclusions. If your vaccination tests show that black Africans show more severe adverse effects, or that, maybe yes, the connection between vaccination and (worsening of) autism is both plausible and understudied, what do you do? For them its a single kid, maybe 2-3 in 100.000 which will start to suffer from autism years earlier, and a disease eradicated. For anti-vaxers, it is their kid.

Essential workers and at-risk people are first in line to receive the vaccine. The hope was availability in September, and public rollout in the beginning of 2021.

The anti-vax conspiracy mud has completely destroyed online information about this subject. There are more such subjects, where it is very difficult to find what the anti-activists are freaking out about. For instance, my gut tells me that physical and mental torture can be effective to obtain useful information. That that's why the mob, military, and police mainly use it for. But, online, nothing: torture is completely ineffective for the first 10 pages of Google. The Holocaust is another obvious one. 5G rollout ("completely safe, maybe, we don't know for sure. Improved Youtube streaming is important tho!"). Or try to find information on how the riots created a spike in infections. All news sites report on the same non-peer reviewed non-scientific institute paper, saying the riots caused spikes is a lie, yet the paper clearly postulates that riots increased infection for black participants and their families, but taken on the whole, they likely caused non-protestors to stay at home more for fear of violence and this reduced virus spread.
I think you haven't disagreed? The point of the parent comments in this thread is that "parents are not the only people for whom companies should have empathy", and you've replied "companies are having empathy for parents, which is great".
I find this universally true in every corner of the stack and it has more to do with experience than anything else. It’s hardly “all front enders do this always.”

Still, to my point, the tools mentioned here have existed for a very long time with very large communities and are hardly the new shiny thing. Your complaint here seems to be more around using the wrong tool for the job.
Black ownership rules for South African ISPs and telecoms companies
I don't know the innards, but I don't think qr decode is that intensive. I seem to recall you can give popular open source decoders frame-at-a-time from a phone camera and it isn't really a bottleneck.
No. The death being due to covid isn’t in dispute. It’s about characterizing who is at most risk. You can be young and have health problems while still living for many more decades, but then you got Covid, died, and now you’re part of the 94%. Given 40% of the US is obese and would fit into this 94%, that’s not something to then ignore and say therefore only 6% of the population could be affected by this. That’s an incorrect understanding of the statistics.

This misrepresentation has been dangerously incorrectly stated either intentionally or ignorantly by people who have an agenda to push, and that agenda isn’t in service to public health.
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Ceci n'est pas une bleu
> Apple takes 30% off all purchases upfront, and maybe they'll cut you a deal if you're Netflix-size.

Netflix, like Kindle & Spotify are "Reader" Apps which pay 0% Royalty.

[1] https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/#:~...
I've been happy using express1040.com for 14 years. It's always easy, updated and free for federal filing.
We spent so many years hearing it trickles down that we didn't realize how inherently backwards it really is - why would anything trickle down into actual purchases, they're always asset price pumps
Inflation for luxury goods or the types of things the 10% buys (which has some overlap with everyone else: they too, need food, housing, etc). But most households don't need more than 1 washing machine. So you gift any amount to the top 10%, but washing machine prices aren't going anywhere.
yeah, I've navigated there several times by accident on my phone while out and about. I never got past the loading screen. at least now you can just go to old.reddit.com and don't have to request the desktop site every time
> that it should not be legal for the police to execute people in the streets on mere suspicion of a crime

There's no way of reasoning with people who use hyperbole like that.

It's also not what BLM want, but see point one, reason has lost before it's begun.

That leaves force.
I thought about this, but let it stand.

It can be tricky. I had to work with something like this a few years ago and managed. As I remember I had to get Scitech Display Doctor/Univbe from some abandonware sites to make use of the weird onboard VGA under Windown95. The ISA-card for the CNC-machine worked, it used DMA, among other things. It all worked, and was even more fluid to operate/program.

The cost was just over 400EUR. (for the board)

Anyways, it's industrial, the formfactor often does not fit existing cases and backpanels, but it's doable. More so than hunting ebay or similar for spares of dubious provenance.

Only exception would be if the "App" and the board/card were designed so sloppily that they really only run on exactly that same hardware.
There's no impact because people are sitting on cash rather than spending it.

What the Fed accomplishes by handing out the $1 trillion is this: they kept all the _other_ money circulating. If people wanted to hoard $1 trillion because they're scared about the future, well, now they've hoarded it. They feel safe and they spend the rest of their money, and the economy keeps humming along.

If instead they'd tried to hoard that $1 trillion without Fed intervention, there'd be an economic collapse.
> At least in the US, the pandemic has changed everyone's life created stress for everyone. These policies seem to indicate that non-parents don't have an additional burden worth recognizing.

This is spot on. The article uses multiple quotes from business leaders that, paraphrased, say "everyone has challenges" yet not one mention of any policies to help non-parents who may also be struggling with mental health issues or otherwise.
> which provides the Unreal Engine for free- but with the following clause:

Which is just _one_ of _many_ licensing terms available for that product. You can just buy a license outright and avoid the royalty fee if you so choose.
> Most people have children.

I can't find any source for this claim.
Site appears cut off on mobile Firefox. Also, spelling correction, the 'a' and 'part' should be apart.
"they" (who?) said that ppe was in short supply and should be reserved for medical personnel.
In Sweden, preschool/childcare is a part of the school system, with it’s own education plan. My kids have loved going to their respective preschools, and they get to meet other kids and learn new things in a safe environment. Even though I love to hang out with my kids, I would never consider it better for them to stay at home with me. Btw, I have four kids, 2-12 years old, so I’ve seen quite a few preschools now and they have all been amazing.
So it's LineageOS for microG for (LineageOS unofficial fork)?

As in an official rectification of the unofficial fork with microG in the middle?

(confused)
My experience is the opposite, it got less complicated. It's not challenging anymore because it's becoming easier to play. Maybe because the internet made playing it less complicated because of the information available or I know the game play too much and there's nothing new to challenge my knowledge of the game.
a) no

b) yes

I'm pretty happy with what php has become. Don't really understand the typescript benefit here.

I would like to see a popular async framework.
When talking about complexity I was fascinated with this interview of one of the dwarf fortress developers explaining how the cats kept dying from alcohol poisoning due to emergent behavior caused by a bug https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY
> It strikes me as extremely odd that it's become so normalized that the U.S.'s role in trade is simply as a buyer of goods.

It should strike you as odd, what you're saying is wrong.

The US exports $2.5 trillion worth of goods and services, including $1.7 trillion of goods.

The US is the world's #2 exporter of goods. With services included, the US is nearly the world's #1 exporter. In 2018, the US was behind China by only about $80 billion in total exports. That's nearly three times the #4 export country, Japan.
Epic sued Google for different things, like making it harder on Android to use a 3rd party app store (you cannot give apps permission to install other apps or update apps silently including itself) and exclusivity deals with manufacturers.
> Netflix's chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder

The only people I have heard complaining is management. It makes it harder to do their jobs, and shows how useless many of their jobs are.
Installing Tailwind in Your React App
The person I responded to was saying they didn't care about the future of the species.

I was replying that we, as a society, DO care about the future of the species. We put laws in place to help further it's survival, mostly around supporting the currently existing children (tax breaks, education, etc), but also around helping people have more children (FMLA).

The reason those laws exist really isn't that different from the laws that support property rights; they support things we, as a society, value.
>>premier city of the affluent province of Punjab hosts far better infrastructure.

Curious. Which city is this?
For algebraic expressions you get an expression if you expand in dual numbers.

But what about something like cos(x). Either you can lazily evaluate the power series or you know its sin(x).
Fascinating. I know what I'm doing for the next hour.

It does make an interesting comparison to the internet today. The Victorians had the wired telegraph for information, but without the trains most of the advancements of the 19th century would not have been possible. Looking naively at it, it seems the closest technology we have today would be flying drone swarms.
Frank Lantz – Creator of Universal Paperclips (2018)
Would you say the same thing if it was, say, a Chinese defense contractor?
I've gotten those too. The letters/emails are carefully worded so the subject screams "Pending domain registration!" to make you think it's your actual domain expiring, but the small print says that the service they offer is "registering" your domain in some random "world business directory". This way it's not an outright scam, in that they do render a (completely useless) service in exchange for your money, but of course they hope that the random admin/manager who sees the "bill" won't realize the difference and will pay up.
Xbox Series S: Everything to know about the $300 next gen
Why not merge all the energy storage ideas?

Pump air into a giant pressure chamber...that's also a super-deep hole with a pulley system...and the weight for the pulley is a flywheel sealed in a vacuum chamber, magnetically levitating to avoid any friction losses. Oh, and the mass for the flywheel? A bunch of batteries.
Something like Newton's method would probably do the trick.
If you look at what happened to Word Perfect when it shifted to Windows then you might consider always being up to date a disadvantage.
Nintendo does it, or at least tries to. The switch is their play at the mobile market. You are not entitled to reach on any other market. It is completely unfair for epic to demand what Hershey had to build on their own, or Tesla, or H&M, or yes even Apple.
They can compete if they think they are so worthy of existing, and I think if they do we will all better as consumers.
What’s with the “pay.reddit.com” sub domain? Does that do something different than just visiting Reddit?
Native apps are really poor at collaboration and composition. School districts around the world are effortlessly doing distance learning by giving parents and kids URLs, which open Web based editors, science experiments, music and art 'web apps', etc all at one click, without worry about whether the kids own iPhones or Android, or desktops, and whether or not they can install it, or have it installed.

Any solution that requires you to write a multipage doc for parents and kids, to go follow two different sets of rules depending on devices and install 2 dozen apps, just so they can take class at home, is a non-starter for school districts.

A link is all you need with the Web for most things. No install. No uninstall. No worry about OS.

Ever since the fanboyism between mobile platforms started, people have started worshipping at the church of the native app, which is say, before the Web once broke us away finally from Windows, and now we're back asking people to install heavyweight native apps for things like "Order a Burger" or "Pay a Parking Meter"