skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but the 30% cut (which is supposedly taking advantage of their monopoly) existed from the very beginning. They didn't eventually become a monopoly and then up prices to extort money from developers. From the very start they charged 30%, and despite of that fee, they still gained a huge market share. I would argue that because they were able to gain a monopoly without changing their fees, that the fees are not taking advantage of monopoly whatsoever.
Seriously, the best advice I've received as a Palantir employee is "stop reading the news." Suddenly all this stuff about the election, the Supreme Court, targeted drone strikes, reproductive rights, police brutality happening to people other than me, rampant disease, and riots in the streets goes away. All that's left is me enjoying a sunny September afternoon in cozy, charming Palo Alto, counting down the hours until my company IPOs!
I've seen a lot of clickbait pages where the next button shows up and 10 seconds later at the end of the page load there's reflow and then an ad is placed where the next button used to be! So you end up clicking through an add on every page unless you wait for a long and random amount of time!
Alibaba already has warehouses using robots that work just like the Kiva robots.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/FBl4Y55V2Z4
What about Google App Engine Flex, Google Cloud Run and Amazon Fargate?

In my company we have been using App Engine Flex in production successfully for a few years already.
Regularly : A blade

Every once in a while: A rock to smash something

Rarely : fire
That's a version of "The Wait Calculation". For instance, it would be a waste of resources to build a starship right now to visit the closest other solar systems, because given our current maximum velocity and our rate of technological increase, it's a virtual certainty that in the future we would be able to build a second starship that would catch up and overtake it.

Eventually there is a break even point (for the closest solar systems, last I checked, it's around 400 years), but in order to know what it is you need to know the amount of time to reach the goal and your rate of increase. I don't know if there's a way to estimate that with fusion research.
Amazon is getting big enough that it's only a matter of time before they start trying to dictate packaging on products, to make it easier for robots to pick them up.

Walmart has been flirting in the same space to automate inventory management.
I’m fine with Disney reopening as long as they add an attraction for those turned away from the ER. Perhaps the Bedknobs and Broomsticks ride can be adapted to a hospital bed and an IV pole.
>Yes it is. It's the best way to fight back against speech you disagree with.

While nearly 100 years old, I think Justice Brandeis had it nailed[0]:
"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_v._California
Home Depot and etc. tend to have bins to dispose of them. The following site allows searches for disposal locations in your area: https://search.earth911.com/ , referred from https://www.epa.gov/cfl/recycling-and-disposal-cfls-and-othe... .
Jeff Bezos has a speech he gives, a
about how shipping containers are interfaces and Amazon's primary value proposition is to metaphorically apply the shipping container "interface" concept to the retail industry.
Sturgeon's Law becomes more true every day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Right, it's a fixed sum but split out into arbitrary increments over an arbitrary period of time. If it was $6,000 paid one time, would anyone try to consider that a UBI experiment?
Are you in the USA? Here in the UK I don't think I have ever seen a dish rinser! We have dishwashers aplenty. The one issue is that if you think the dishwasher is a food disposal unit, you'll likely clog it up. Some people put dishes in with lumps of food on them, or don't put salt in the dishwasher (depends on the tablets you use) and the lifespan of the dishwasher will be impacted.

When my old one failed to drain and filled up, I was amazed at how much water came out of it when I shimmy'd it to the back door and released the kraken over the back garden. It was like a tsunami.
More parameters -- enumerated ones rather than real-valued ones.

The "two-story" "a" is default, but set a bit to choose the single-story version. Similarly with a lowercase "g" and so on.

(And of course plenty of existing fonts already give variants for these kinds of things too -- so the user could even still choose an alternate one, even if the font designer never designed it!)
it could be nice to avoid the overhead of moving the gpu box tensors to cpu, potentially.
One thing that people don't mention is just having a beefy computer. Programs like Zoom and Teams are a combination of horribly engineered and replete with processing-intensive features like virtual backgrounds and noise/echo removal. Using a desktop PC instead of a closed overheating laptop goes a long way.
Disney+ now lets you binge watch with friends, even when you're not together
I think this is by design. For example, in Qt you use QStrings instead of standard library strings which then allows you to use the Qt system for internationalizing text. C++ is a general purpose language and Qt is a library/framework for building highly portable applications.
I couldn’t even tell you what brand my dumb 4k TV is, but i have it hooked up to my old Mac with a wireless keyboard and I’m very happy. I do not understand the appeal of a television who also controls content. Maybe I’m old school but this article confirmed my gut reaction to the concept
Musk: ‘A.I. Doesn’t Need to Hate Us to Destroy Us’
Some of the cheaper LEDs are still not recommended in use for enclosed fixtures so I keep my semi-retired cfls around for use in such fixtures.
Funny coincidence... I just ordered a copy of this book yesterday after reading https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/. I might not be the only one.
It's only cheaper because of the externalities. If employers were required to pay for the damage the work does, it's be a different story.
Why not cooperate with the Qt people? I've experimented with some minor Hello World stuff in Qt several times over the years, but it's the C++ that tends to put me off. Some official bindings or deeper integration might draw people to both rust and Qt.
They can, however, derive impls.

Which I consider a better approach than inheritance, ymmv.
It's super easy. Stop commingling inventory and put back the option to only search for items shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Didn't need a PhD for that.
Since this errant observation somehow made it to the FP, and eventually got flagged, I have a few more thoughts:

* Sorry the HN title ended up more clickbatey than intended. It's not making 14 extra HTTP requests just for the video title. It originally started with "An HTTP request" but it was a few characters too long for HN, and I didn't spend much time rethinking it.

* I agree the extra text isn't a problem (like I said, that'll compress well). I'm more concerned about the underlying complexity it signals. There is more obvious evidence of this complexity (it makes 70 network requests when you load the page even if you pause the video immediately), this is just a novel one for me.

* I appreciate the copies which are intended to interoperate with other systems like Twitter and OGP.

* I actually appreciate the fact that a JSON blob of all the video metadata is embedded in the HTML. It'll make my scraping task much simpler.
I wondered if Qemu can emulate NeXT, and the closest I found were:

https://github.com/blanham/qemu-NeXT

http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_NeXTSTEP_on_Qemu

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2016/02/07/nextstep-in-yo...

Then I realized the "Previous" you mentioned is a full emulator for NeXTStep 0.x to 4.0 beta.

http://previous.alternative-system.com/

https://github.com/probonopd/previous - Mirrored from SourceForge

Fascinating..
Sorry you are right, this I went on a little tangent there (as explained in a sibling comment).

However “people who are offended by everything” is often used as a synonym for left leaning folks (or rather folks in favor of societal diversity; SJWs if you will). Also “shutting down the debate” is often used to complain about when a left leaning person reacts offensively (or even angrily) during a debate. This is regardless of if the preceding comment was actually very insulting or threatening to some people that may be present.

In a sibling comment I explain that—in my opinion—it is actually a good thing if people that hold oppressing and insulting views self-censor after having received angry replies to their offensive views. I‘d like to add now that normally us “left leaning folks” don’t simply label speech as offensive and leave it at that. We—as grandparent points out—we actively engage in the conversation and point out (sometimes in anger) the flaws in the opposing opinion, explain why a thing is offensive and bad, and why we are angry about it. Then we hope that either they will change their view or at least reconsider before they say something like this again.

Again I should reiterate that I am specifically talking about debates that I consider threatening or offensive to some groups of people.
Dude, why are you spamming comments?!
Where Do Programming Languages Go to Die?
No, I enjoy paying 50% more than necessary for the paucity of features the Samsung sparingly distributes at each price point!
It is similar (well, except that it precedes Hearthstone by a decade or two). Also Hearthstone is digital only, while Magic is played both in paper and on a couple of digital platforms.

There is a thriving second hand market (both paper and digital) with prices going from a few cents (or less) for bulk commons to ten of thousands for first edition power 9. The cheapest (but still very expensive) way to play the game is to buy the cards you need on the market instead of opening up packs and hoping to find what you need.

Speculators are known to buy up less liquid (printing of) cards to simulate demand, then unload them when the price is up. Not all (or even most) price spikes are due to speculators of course.

Also there are often spikes of certain older cards before new sets are released which happen to contain new cards that work well these old cards, suggesting that insiders of Wizard of the Coast or retailers are leaking and/or trading on non public information.

You can't print your own cards to participate in sanctioned tournaments, but of course, when playing with friends you can do whatever your playgroup allows.
A. Ashkin – whose 1970 invention of 'tractor beam' led to 2018 Nobel –dies at 98
I trust that you salute Faraday once in a while?
Anybody know how this differs from Vimium extension?
Interesting, I hope this gets tested in court as I’d like to know the outcome.

Since I can open an email without you knowing and I can load your tracker image without reading it, I don’t think it will stand up.

I think a more reliable method is a system that requires a user to do something to acknowledge and sign. I refinanced a mortgage recently and had something like this where the email just contained links that I had to log in, view, and accept. That seems a bit more reliable if I actually want to prove that someone was “served.”
> Fuck the guy who wanted to suck up to the management in some stupid meeting projecting estimated revenue out of this to ask for a raise later because he "contributed to a revenue increase" to the company.

I knew something was fucky when smart TVs started to be sold for less than the dumb ones - all things being even, smart TVs had to cost more to produce, so something had to be subsidizing the prices.
From the description of the article, they pull his fingers up. He can adjust the glove to change how strongly they do.

The stronger the pull, the faster the movement, the faster that he can play.
Full automation is always out of reach, but McDonald's is extremely automated.
True, meat consumption in Greece has increased in recent years (not least because of the incursion of USA-style fast food like McDonalds) however "As a global average, per capita meat consumption has increased approximately 20 kilograms since 1961" (from your link) so per capita meat consumption has increased in Greece because it has increased everywhere and Greece is still one of the least meat-consuming countries. Also, most meat production in Greece is sheep or goat and pigmeat (data from your link) and not the much more environmentally harmful beef production.
can similar run in digital ocean? Or is Docker image be published in a DO droplet and update or overwrite remotely to minimise hacking risk.
Isn't nvidia broadcast just some tools that plug into your existing streaming software?

>NVIDIA Broadcast is a universal plugin that works with most popular live streaming, voice chat and video conferencing apps. It’s supported on any NVIDIA GeForce RTX, TITAN RTX or Quadro RTX GPU, using their dedicated Tensor Core AI processors to help the app’s AI networks run in real-time, right alongside your games.
This is a very ballsy decision by Epic, forgoing significant iOS revenue in the hopes of eventually reclaiming some or all of that 30% app store tax.

I wonder how much of this decision was unilaterally made by Tim Sweeney. He is quite vocal about how much he hates the 30% tax (Valve included) because the vast majority is just profit and not for services rendered. It's excellent ammunition for his case to demonstrate that his storefront only charges 12% and is still profitable.

Question, if Apple were to lose the first trial would they be forced to allow Fortnite back on the App Store while the endless series of appeals follow?
The EU actually attempted to do the right thing when regulating dishwashers, and it actually made rules that it has to not just be efficient, but also get the dishes to a certain cleanliness standard.

Either their standard was too lenient or their testing procedure unrealistic though, because my dishwasher has the "EU mode" (which has to be selected by default by law), and then 4 other modes that will actually clean the dishes.

I'm surprised that the manufacturers didn't label the EU mode as such to make clear to customers who they have to thank for that.

Such experiences sour consumers for future eco initiatives (compare e.g. early CFLs and LEDs leading to people hoarding incandescent bulbs and refusing to touch the technology to this day).

Vacuum cleaners are the EU's most recent victim.
In 2005, Amnesty International was criticizing the US offshore prison in Guantanamo Bay where prisoners were being held without charge or trial.

I don't think Amnesty International was criticizing the US for being undemocratic even though it uses FPTP and gerrymandered districts.
“The year of the nuclear desktop”!
I'm glad to see others pointing this out. Compared to the build-in webcam on my MacBook Pro, the C920 is much sharper, but I look like a ghost most of the time. And Logitech's software leaves a lot to be desired; at one point, it was bundled in with their gaming software package and asks for lots of extra permissions to control my computer that I don't need for the webcam.

If there is a better thirty-party program out there for macOS, I would love that.
The Nikola One has a range of 0km (unless it's powered only by gravity)
I interact with Jim (obs creator) pretty regularly and he definitely deserves the support. Dude is extremely talented and kind. He puts an insane amount of effort into OBS.
Fortran Compiled to WebAssembly
I wonder if the existing law is capable of dealing with the current situation. It seems crazy to me that anyone considers the mobile market sane or good for users and developers.

Think about it.

The average person has a smart phone where they only have access to 1 store. The arguments about sideloading on Android are somewhat moot IMO because the severity of warnings and effort to discourage users from sideloading are highly effective and, when combined with no one changing the defaults, the vast majority of people stick to the play store.

On the other side there are the developers who MUST deal with both companies. There is no choice. You can't build an app with a mobile component and ignore 1 of the only 2 distribution platforms. Why would I risk major R&D costs to develop anything novel or disruptive when I have no guarantee I can distribute that product and might even be facing a hostile distributor if my product disrupts them?

Does anyone think having 2 massive incumbents controlling distribution for a mode of computing that's become essential to western life is healthy? How is the market not going to devolve (even more) into a bunch of low effort skinner box IAP trash?

And the game console analogies are dumb. I don't need a game console. I don't have one. However, I NEED a mobile phone to participate in modern society. Try getting and keeping a good paying job if you don't have a mobile phone and are "unresponsive".
Nice. So how much will you be worth tomorrow?
Thanks, I needed this comment. I'm a fan of your writing style.
So to summarize:

$800 dollars for what? "Immersive video call"?

And this one made me laugh:

> Prefer Zoom to most alternatives
People who don't like freedom. So by definition that's what they'll do. It isn't a judgment. It is definitionally correct.
I love how every piece of new tech from robots, to drones to jet packs is sold as helping disaster relief and first responders. But then is actually actually adopted by the military to kill people.
I was referring to engineers. I've had the top upvoted comment in several of these Apple commentary threads and the responses tend to share my sentiment.

The average consumer doesn't understand the nuance of the issue; computing freedom doesn't weigh in on their purchase decision. Apple having a good product and Apple behaving as anticompetitive platform fascists have little to do with one another.

This is why we need to take the matter out of the hands of consumers and put it into the DOJ's care.
I'm talking about law as applied to everyday citizens and corporations.

When you get to balance of powers and prosecuting presidents, you're not really operating primarily in the legislative game anymore, but rather in the power politics game, no matter how much they dress it up in legal language.
Many cities (in the USA) are mandated to have balanced budgets, limiting the size and scope of providing UBI-style benefits so something like this is difficult to role out without federal support. I’m pro a limited UBI but I don’t think it does people any good to not have a job to do so I’d want to see UBI as being a first tier program with a universal jobs guarantee as a second tier with each municipality having the choice over what they want those jobs to be.
> Instead, the judge has said that she wants this to go to a jury, and that this is no ordinary case. She said that it is an extrordinary case, that is on the bleeding edge of technology monopoly law, and basically, that such an important case should not be decided by a judgement from the bench.

It's baffling to me that we have still have this ridiculous idea that a lawsuit that's legally and technically complicated should be decided by people who haven't the first clue about the law or technology.

Civil suits shouldn't be tried by juries. Yeah, I said it, and I'll say it every time I'm in voir dire when I'm drawn into a jury pool for a civil suit. We should reserve it for times when a person's freedom or life are on the line, legally, but people fighting over money in complex legal arguments should be decided by legal and technical experts.
We shouldn't do many things but we do. If I feel embarrassed, it means I am vulnerable. I want to keep it to myself and I have the right to feel embarrassed, despite it being illogical. Humans aren't perfectly logical beings. If we were, there would be no discussions like this one.
German communists most likely weren't aware of what was really happening in the USSR at the time.
(Whether an hypothetical communist revolution in Germany would have resulted in Stalinist-like horrors is an interesting question.)
French communists have had a disproportionate part in French resistance, and a disproportionate part in French after-war policies for a long time.
There still seems to be a degree of 2.5 dimensional thinking with the current robotics systems.

If you occupy the entire volume of a warehouse, then the volume occupied per object becomes less of an issue than when you have huge air columns between the roof and robots, workers, or shelves.

You could move most of the manual handling to the ingest side; having truck workers load product into what amounts to a fancy Pez dispenser customized to each high volume product. The humans spend more time dealing with oddball items and trying to arrange the order to fit within the box, instead of grabbing things out of bins.
Preparing and orchestrating a syllabus for young learners is a very complex task. One lesson I learnt as a professional educator teaching programming to children was to design experiences around situations that were relevant and interesting to them. This guide is probably well-intentioned and locally successful, but the opening example appears misguided:

"... Suppose your boss wants you to work from 8am to 11am, and mop floors 8 to 11. Simple - it's one floor per hour, right?"

This appears irrelevant and uninteresting to the lived experiences of most children.
Paper, introduced ~25 A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper
for fname in ~/.config/zsh/functions/*; do source $fname; done

will prevent issues with special chars and spaces in filenames
The fact that it works with an existing docker-compose.yaml and will provision itself on a cloud for you is pretty compelling I think.

I have tried the Docker AWS ECS plugin for deploying your compose stack, and it's buggy.

The AWS ECS CLI would deploy docker-compose files in V1. V2 (now called Copilot) has shifted away from this, and it uses a custom manifest YAML file. Copilot isn't bad.

Most of the platforms I work on have a docker-compose stack with Postgres, a backend API, a frontend, and potentially ancillary services. Anything that integrates well with this is a godsend tbh, because otherwise you need to maintain two sets of configuration and keep them in sync.
> In the sun, isn't energy production occurring at something like 100-1000 W/m3?

~250W/m3.
Ups, ok, lost in translation xD
AWS Serverless Application Model:Guide to Writing Your First AWS Sam Application
> just throw UBI money at them and warehouse them in apartments like cattle

I think this is how the bottom portion of Maslow's hierarchy is often dismissed.

What I think the parent is talking about is higher up in the hierarchy--esteem needs. In our current society, most people get fulfillment through their job or raising kids. You often hear about issues with empty nest or retirement because people have trouble losing that purpose in their life.

I've heard a lot of people bring up this dilemma, but not a lot of discussion about solutions. Often, they seem to imply work is the only way for fullfilment and don't even mention raising kids.

I think history has a bunch of examples. None are going to be a good fit for everyone and I can imagine many people just being warehoused, consuming media with no other purpose. Historically, you saw well-to-do women run charities outside of raising children. A lot of scientists were very well to do people following their whims. For retirees, they can find purpose in maintaining a garden, playing music, or something else that offers personal fulfillment.
Covid-19, presumably.