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Show HN: Launch apps on your PC from your couch
Hi,
There are 2 apps, one for your computer on which you'll be able to manage which programs can be controlled, and one app for your smartphone which connects to your computer and lets you remotely launch and stop programs and also control media.

Watch the full demo video on YouTube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjP6p6_hSi4

We're developping this for lazy couch cats like us. Check availability on remotemeow.com
Any comments appreciated!
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Terrifying when you think of the implications this has on self driving cars and the latest smartphones.
It's attempting to shift blame around in exactly the same way as shifting half a contract. The profits but not the consequences.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy how much I hated biology in high school but how much I love reading medical papers, drug mechanisms of action on wikipedia, watching Chubbyemu or Thought Emporium etc. There's just so much that I would have loved to learn in the field, but the practical starting points were just uninteresting rote memorization I guess so I could never enjoy it or see a practical use case. It seemed like the least interesting science to me, but now I wish I got more out of it.

That or perhaps I can consume an absurd amount of pop-sci garbage.
The Fall of the Giant
Actually the same is true of "hard work".

Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being careful, or diligent. Conscientiousness implies a desire to do a task well, and to take obligations to others seriously. Conscientious people tend to be efficient and organized as opposed to easy-going and disorderly. They exhibit a tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; they display planned rather than spontaneous behavior; and they are generally dependable. It is manifested in characteristic behaviors such as being neat, and systematic; also including such elements as carefulness, thoroughness, and deliberation (the tendency to think carefully before acting)

[...]

With the advent of the FFM (Five-Factor Model), behavior geneticists began systematic studies of the full range of personality traits, and it soon became clear that all five factors are substantially heritable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
>rather unlikely
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/28/macos-high-sierra-bug-a...
Where does Affirm get their under writing for its credit?
Leap second hiatus
Biology doesn't have to make sense, it just is what it is.
I don’t think bootcamp has ever been a requirement to boot into linux on a mac, and I never have used it to do so on various macbook pros over the last ~10 years
I'm curious what you mean when you say global variables are idiomatic in Python scripts. I work on Python scripts on a daily basis and very rarely use globals except for the occasional "const" value.

If globals ever do cause a noticeable slowdown due to dynamic lookup, this can easily be fixed by pointing a local var at the global at the start of a function.
Yes, without drivers for the SoC and other Apple hardwares, we may only have hackintosh kind of OSes on these ARM Mac.

Moreover, you have to cripple your own macOS to run others OS, which seems a deliberate design to discourage users:

> Permissive Security: Does not enforce any requirements on the bootable operating system. Note: The Permissive Security option appears only when System Integrity Protection (SIP) is disabled. To disable SIP, start up your Mac in macOS Recovery, open Terminal, then run the command csrutil disable.
I suggest using CMD+Enter for Mac. This is the closest/better alternative to CTRL+Enter for PC, albeit Mac having a CTRL key.
smartphones have some sensors that are more useful to the ad company then myself
People seem to conflate understanding an opponents argument with accepting the opponents argument.
> Consumer credit laws in the US so severely restrict what you can use for credit scoring purposes that better underwriting through data is basically a lost cause, absent some specific customer segment that has special credit situations.

Can I inquire what your background is or where you found that information? Many companies supplement credit scores with additional data to make these types of decisions.
> which Robot Vacuum Cleaner is equipped with a LIDAR?

I think Tesla made one
"There has to be a better of doing this than popping open my text editor and manually writing all these tags".

This isn't a silver bullet, but perhaps the open-source tool, Emmet [0], can help remove some/much of the drudgery. There's a little demo on its docs page[1] and here's how it's described there:

Emmet takes the snippets idea to a whole new level: you can type CSS-like expressions that can be dynamically parsed, and produce output depending on what you type in the abbreviation. Emmet is developed and optimised for web-developers whose workflow depends on HTML/XML and CSS, but can be used with programming languages too.

There are also a bunch of YouTube videos about it.[2]

(It even has a Wikipedia page[3]).

[0] https://emmet.io/

[1] https://docs.emmet.io/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayoutube.com+emmet&ie=...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet_(software)
As a curious 'outsider' (Developer, not a writer), is it worth the time and effort to publish a book on Self-Publish platforms like Amazon Kindle?

What I am basically looking for is to create a strong resume and some bit of passive income.
> Not everyone spies on everyone to the same extent.

Because they don't have the capacity. And NSA doesn't steal Huawei IP on behalf of Cisco, quite the opposite.
>Instead, this sounds more like what my girlfriend uses "The Office" as: TV that you're so comfortable with you like to have it on when you're doing other things and not actually watching TV.

Friends is the same way. Much of the hubbub over its becoming big again when Netflix won the rights a few years ago was from young women discovering the show, but I suspect that just as many of the viewers were slightly older women who've seen every episode multiple times and put it on in the background while going about their day.
Sufficient evidence was presented for the metaphor, it seems apt and you seem to be overly obtuse. You seem unwilling to look beyond the obvious "its quite obviously literally not heroin". My god you sound insufferable.
Life is a self-sustaining, self-replicating chemical reaction. It obeys the laws of physics. It must somehow preserve the information necessary for its own genesis and regenesis at every generation. It must accumulate the energy needed for its functions from its environment. Makes sense?
If I'm inferring correctly from the wiki page on Norwegian internet, the DNS blacklist is not made public as they mention it was posted to wikileaks back in 2009. At the time I believe this was exclusively a CP blacklist [1]

The mandate to block torrent sites came about as a result of a court order following a lawsuit brought forth by Hollywood studios against Norwegian ISPs [2]. I tried to find the specific text on lovdata, but came up empty as they don't have a comprehensive list of local court decisions. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Norway#Internet_ce...

[2] https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/the-pirate-bay-stenges-i-nor...

[3] https://lovdata.no/register/dommer
That is wishful thinking - Apple is not known to do anything that can open up their system and breach their walled garden. ARM Macs are designed to turn even the desktops to iPad / iPhones where you have no control or choice.
It is probably better for China to have your data then USA, because they probably don't share (unless you live in China)
Peabody may have spun off unprofitable operations and let them crash but how did it sepate assets and liabilities for the same operation?
Predicting the difficulty of merge conflicts [pdf]
The US 100% spies on Israel, and Israel often has the most amount of foreign spies in DC/SF outside of China and Russia.
This is a good point. If you sprinkle one donut in a dozen, the average (mean) donut has few sprinkles or (median) no sprinkles. But the average sprinkle is nearby many, many sprinkles. The metric we care about shouldn't be population density of land, but average density of people around a randomly chosen individual. Counter-intuitively not the same.
I’m not sure what you hope to gain from typing “$1<tab><tab>”.
No no, everyone does it so there is no point in criticizing one and not the other.
I worked at a company where this was mandatory for everyone — everyone — in the company. People who didn’t do it earnestly were let go. If I ever found a company you can bet I’m going to copy the practice.
It's fixed for YouTube.

And the way the big was introduced is now well-understood.
RPC DRAM support in open source DRAM controller
> Prisoner's dilemma does no one good.

Isn't that the point? We all would be better off working together, but that's not in our nature to do so.
Alright then, considering building "lettres-libérées.org", as hombre_fatal phrased it :D . Thanks for the chat, and long live SE.
Danish study finds face masks provide limited protection to wearer
You might want to be more specific about which community might have interest in this. At a glance it seems to be... web developers?
An M1 MBA running Windows 10/ARM? I'd buy that right now!
I agree with you, it just click -> (prompt setting) -> install.
Android would ask me to only allow once, which is super convenient since I would like to disable it after finish installation.
I don't understand how can it be easier while remaining security.
Beside, third party app store is allowed.
This article rings so true to me. My father is a microbiologist - and now, so is my fiancée. I'm very lucky that I get to learn about genetics through osmosis now, and boy, is it ever fascinating!

I had a dining-table discussion with my dad the other day where the subject of DNA mismatch repair came up. It turns out that, in E. coli, a very simple & widely studied prokaryote, there's a mechanism called DNA mismatch repair which fixes errors which might occur during DNA copying. If an error is detected - a mismatch (e.g. a G paired with a T) - a trio of proteins (MutL, MutS, MutH) spring into action. The original template strand is already methylated - marked with an extra methyl group - at certain points in the genome (usually where there's a C followed by a G). The daughter strand, on the other hand, is usually not methylated yet. So, one of these proteins starts running down the DNA from the mismatch site, looking for a methyl group - up to 1000 base pairs away. When it finds a site with a methyl group on one side but not the other, it nicks (marks) the daughter strand, and another protein complex comes along and chops up everything from the nick to the mismatch site. The DNA polymerase then comes by and resynthesizes the whole strand.

Just three proteins are needed to drive this complex algorithm - a linear search procedure which distinguishes the mother from the daughter strand, a marking procedure which identifies the incision point, and a third to chop up the DNA and prepare it for resynthesis. What's even more bonkers is that E. coli - under stressful situations - will disable certain DNA repair mechanisms to deliberately induce more mutations. And I know that there are thousands more such pathways and complex interactions going on in cells all the time - many of which we simply haven't discovered or probed yet.

I wish that everything in biology could be explained so neatly. Unfortunately, real biology is so incredibly messy. There's just so much we don't know - and so much that we can't neatly slot into an explanation like this. But, I know now that in another life I probably would have been a biologist!
Honestly? Strong agree. A huge part of my general distaste for them as a user is rooted in their resistance to standards. (See: Lightning, AirPlay, their fucking keyboard layout that's so shuffled it also breaks default app-level shortcuts that work on every other device and operating system I use...)

But to that exact point, if I could get my hands on an ARM Mac Mini, stick Linux onto it, and throw any of a variety of use cases at it? At that power envelope, with Thunderbolt 4, and my own input devices? I would genuinely consider switching away from DIY builds for a while.

(...even more so next year, when WiFi 6E and BT5.2 have also trickled out.)
This reminds me of the disinformation smear campaign against the Canadian health care system run by US insurance companies since the nineties to prevent single payer health care laws from being passed...

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925354134/frame-canada
acabal (SE's maintainer) answered, and you were right :) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145829 .

Thinking about it! Thanks for the advice.
Zuckerberg has been to trial in washington and had to speak about AI approaches. This is not the first second or third time international news has been made making objective statements about the technical failures of the product facebook is wants it's moderators to use.

To say he has not been made aware and had the opportunity to address these issues over years is giving him too much credit.

Blame capitalism is all the rave. So are companies hiding from responsibility. Shell companies shell companies to evade responsibility and incing their companies on remote islands they clearly don't primarily operate on to evade taxes and giving abuses NDAs which effectively offer full silence regardless of any federal felonies committed or else they take severence or healthcare taken away. Companies can do whatever they want under an NDA and sue anyone to the point even if they did something very illegal, they still wouldn't be liable because the fact that someone spoke about it is illegal in the same way a VC investor was caught beating a woman 300 times in a row as she tried to escape the guys san Francisco mansion but the evidence was thrown out because it was obtained illegally and he got a $500 fine instead.

Blame capitalism exists because publicly shaming companies away from egregious abuses even to the point of being often illegal is the only way to have some type of check and balance and it always takes a few people beginning by speaking out and losing their jobs and getting nothing for it before the masses come to agreement and hold companies responsible for better practices. Unfortunately this is not just a fun trend. It's a reaction that attempts to check and balance abuses and it often only happens after many yrs and many people have gone silent and a few have chosen to take the risk and speak out. We should definitely have something better than blame capitalism but to say it just appeared out of the blue is a bit misleading.
I'm thinking about taking a sabbatical next year, 15 countries in 7 months. How well does Librem travel?
Since you brought up inconsistencies.. If you're curious, they are requesting data to do the analysis - https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580...

(I'd love said logs)

Personally, I just try to explore what I can. I regularly post on HN because these are computer related investigations or things I find interesting. I was hoping it would lead to interesting discussion about how to validate this stuff, or someone to point out I'm wrong (and thus I could improve my analysis). Don't we all want discourse and to improve our understanding of reality.

I'm just the super curious, I have to know the world to make it better. I also love when I hear some confusion I do FOIA requests, pull data and dive in. I don't care about the results at the start. Exploring the data helps me make informed decisions.
You can't just toss out core enlightenment principles because a handful of loud simpletons latch on to bad ideas. Not without explaining why.
> spy that Japanese company to steal secrets for its American competitor.

i don't see any indication that anything like that happened
i think in general alphabet might find it easier to lend out its own money. they can already do that by buying bonds.

what a bank does. which is lending out other people's money. most governments want to be quite sure who its lent out to.
I'm consulting for a company that is hosting super inexpensive workshop on change management for Managers and ICs on 12/9. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plumeria-workshops-managing-thr...

It's geared towards identifying when and how to guide yourself and others through company changes. So, while not specifically tailored for software dev it can definitely help with communication as a whole.
> But as soon as someone buys my app, I have to pay 15% to Apple. What for?

Is this a trick question? It is the same walled garden model that game consoles have always had; have you noticed that most apps in the iOS store are games?

You'll run into the same sort of thing if you want to list your app/game on PSN, Microsoft Store for Xbox, Nintendo eShop - even Google Play, Steam, and Epic game store charge commissions, and brick and mortar stores add markup - the manufacturer or distributor rarely receives the full retail price that the customer pays.

The markup or commission exists so that the platform owner (or the retailer) can make money, some of which they use to invest in the platform, operate the store, pay their employees, pay dividends to investors, or just accumulate into a giant Scrooge McDuck-type pile of cash.
No one would buy the debt if they didn’t hold on to any.
Everyone doesn't do it because they can't and it it's still more than fine.

The US is the world's sole military superpower and post WW2 has been singularly responsible for the world being the safest it has been in recorded history, both in terms of large wars (including large powers going to war with eachother) and weaker nations getting annexed by stronger powers (a now rare event and historically common).

If North Korea wants to invade and annex South Korea, they'd have to go through the US. If China wants to take territory from Japan, they have to go through the US (ask Biden, he just confirmed that for Japan, to their delight). If China wants Taiwan, they're afraid they'd have to go through the US (or they'd have already taken it). If Russia wants the Baltics, a chunk of Finland, part of Poland, or Romania's Black Sea territory, it has to go through the US.

Who else provides that blanket for the world?

The US should be spying on what everyone is doing militarily, without exception.
> You can avoid this by reducing performance for the entire time you owned the device so nobody noticed, I guess, but that's all.

Or you could notify people of the situation, and sell replacement batteries.

That would have been the best solution.
"Spy agency does job, public shocked and surprised"
Real Estate Photo Editing Services Can Affect the Real Estate Industry
They can be use used for anything related to numerical programming. They are GPGPUs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

There are processors that are designed only for DNN inference but A100 is not one of them.
The big problem in todays age is we can no longer assume the government is accountable to us, or even get straight answers from the right people there.

Why can't I ask someone at the government directly exactly what their policy is on blocking websites, which sites are blocked, and what the legal basis for blocking is? And get a real, detailed, authoritative answer? And contest that answer if it does not meet legal standards?

The current standard is far, far removed from that. They can block a site or surveil you without any realistic accountability. The legal system is technically a recourse, but that works only in horribly egregious cases like NSA spying revealed by Snowden, and after years of delay after the case has faded from public consciousness. Even that didn't change anything about how the government acts today. And we would not have known about it if it hadn't been for "illegal" whistleblowing.

When the average person can't even get straight answers from the government about how they govern, let alone influence that policy, that is a failure of democracy. We are trying to solve problems in the democratic functioning of government using technology, but that will only ever be a cat and mouse game. These f decided on their own that mass surveillance & censorship is okay, and we are left trying to use technology to hide when we should be able to demand a national conversation about what kinds of surveillance is okay.
Also, the intersection of people thinking (burnout at Caltech = tautology) and (reading HN is a good way to flick) is sufficiently large that I really think there will be no negative repercussions if you otherwise conduct yourself honorably online.

Hi from an '03 mole whose is mildly surprised you're hitting that wall in sophomore year -- back when I was there it was junior year. But hey, I didn't do CS :)
IoT Vulnerability Assessment of the Irish IP Address Space
I mean, if Apple doesn't release any drivers for its hardwares, then it is effectively true - you won't be able to run anything other than macOS on it and will have to depend on VMs for other OSes. Let's not forget that Apple moved to ARM Macs not only for increased profit but also to exert even more control over Mac desktops and turn them into ios like spying client terminals where you can't run anything on it not approved by Apple or without their knowledge.
Again, the battery is not defective, it is a certain number of years old. That is how batteries perform at a certain age. Batteries are consumable parts like tires and ink cartridges.

It's like returning an ink cartridge at 50% capacity because it's only got half the ink left. Yes, that's the point, that's what cartridges do.

This feature is designed to always get the most out of a battery. Is that really something to complain about?

I guess this is where it's a perspective issue.

- You're saying that a new battery starts out at "100%" and that after a year or so, Apple throttles is down to "80%" because it can no longer keep up with how it came out of the factory. Apple designed a function that reduces the performance of a system that's defective to hide the defect. That would be strictly negative.

- What I'm saying is that the battery starts out at "120%" out of the factory (which you can confirm, when you buy a new mac check out the Batter mAh vs. design rating in System Report) and eventually drifts towards "100%" over time. Apple designed a system that allows you to get that extra 20% at the start, when it's available. That would be strictly positive.
The "before" was applying for a store-branded credit card at the point of sale, which evaluated your credit risk and (potentially) extended you a revolving credit line equal to what the lender deemed was your appropriate borrowing capacity, potentially far in excess of your purchase amount.

Affirm is just a "micro-transaction" take on that very large and lucrative market. They extend a fixed term, one-time line of credit equal to your transaction amount and no more. Want to use Affirm for another transaction? That'll be an entirely independent line of credit for that transaction, subject to its own application/approval process.

There are a lot of somewhat novel aspects to Affirm's approach, but the core premise of Affirm itself one of them. For better or worse, making it easy for consumers to over-extend themselves by dangling a credit line at the point of sale was widespread and lucrative long before Affirm entered the market.
Not only this and the parent comment is also correct but this is the lesson that civilization will continually have to deal with every generation ad nauseam. This is our time and our struggle and how we handle this and all the issues afoot will set the course for humanity.

We as a species and our societies by proxy are self actualizing kicking and screaming.
I don't even know what a NOMAD is haha