skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are about to ruin stargazing for everyone
it will change, soon.
Is it really a surprise that retail is in trouble? Private equity is a scapegoat for outdated business models. Covering up a non-viable business with the appreciation of your buildings is an accounting trick (and was a big factor in the 2010 crisis: a lot of companies went bankrupt not because their businesses suddenly became unviable, but because their businesses had been unviable for years but they made a profit on the value of their buildings); selling off the building while it's still worth something and letting the actual business stand or fall on its merits is a better approach.
Great, but none of that describes the current situation.

There is no legitimate outcome yet. We have a process. Parties are entitled to have their case heard. There’s not much more harmful than denying due process. This obviously isn’t a precursor for violence, just like it wasn’t in the 2000 presidential election. Just like it wasn’t with Abrams in Georgia. Keep those in mind when you say it’s not about left and right.

I don’t know what you’re referring to with respect to truthfulness, and there has been no failure to peacefully transition power, so maybe reserve that complaint for when January 20th if Biden is certified the winner and Trump goes into the Whitehouse bathroom and locks the door. I’m quite confident that you will find that the concern was unfounded, but I might be wrong.
Disabling SIP doesn't cripple macOS.
This has nothing to do with the fact that signal is based on electron. Whatsapp has a very similar client and it works perfectly with the mentioned snippets. Both copy and paste work flawlessly.
That's cheating. One would need to also define F, c, ε0, J, assuming ∇ is known from calculus. Which would make for 5 lines :)
> Sure it does. That is because competition is being prevented.

No it doesn't. The 30/70 split for revenue share is a standard thing across industries. This includes other industries that aren't related to IT at all.

> Except for epic! They charge 12%. So that is one specific example right there, that would reduce the fee below the current fee that Apple charges.

Epic are trying to buy their way into the market. They are flush with cash from fortnite and unreal engine. Once they wedge themselves in it will raise their take I would wager.

Every other player is at 30%. Nintendo have lowered it to 30% to be inline with others.

Every brainlet brings up EPIC as a gotcha, ignoring the fact that EPIC are buying their way into the market. Which is very important thing to consider.

> All I need is a singular example to prove my point. And we have that example. Epic's app store is being prevented, and they charge less money.

A singular example where a company is buying it way into the market is not representative of the whole. There were banks that had interest rates of 16% back in the 1970s. That doesn't mean that the other banks should have offered that or that it is fair (those banks with high interests rates would always collapse).

So no that isn't true.

> Even if you are willing to ignore basic economic theory completely by saying it would have no effect on price, giving more money to developers indirectly helps consumers even if prices stay exactly the same.

I am not ignoring basic economic theory. You are. If people buy a triple A game for £50 or £60 in the sufficient numbers then the prices won't be lowered.

As for developers getting more money helps consumer. Absolute nonsense. The company will pocket the cash. You are living in fantasy land if you think anything else.

> It helps them because more resources can be spent on the game to make it better.

That is good for developers by not necessarily for consumers. And no it won't be spent on making the game better.

> And to go even further, even if such benefits don't exist, it is still better to give the money to the people who made the game, who I think deserve that money more than Apple.

Apple deserve the money because the devs agreed to put their software on their store and the stipulation (until now) is that Apple got 30% of the purchase.
This is an important improvement to #python #pip dependency management. In the past I would find subtle failures due to silently incorrect package installation. This will cause pip to fail explicitly and let the programmer decide what to do.
That makes a ton of sense.
Drat. That's the one loophole that drives all these compromises on tech people make.
One experience doesn’t disprove systemic reasons for the outcomes we’re seeing. Even if hypothetically all teachers were very well paid and the job was regarded as high status, there would be a nonzero chance that some kids still end up with shitty teachers.
On the PC, if I don’t want to pay Valve or Epic’s cut, I always have the option selling directly. That’s a significant distinction.
I moved about 5 months ago and purchased a few thousand dollars worth of furniture. I could have paid cash but since it was 0% APR, I used Affirm and set the money aside in an investment account that has paid for ~20% of the total cost. Of course it could have gone the other way, but it was a risk I was willing to take.

It's a really great deal as a consumer.
The battery may not be defective, but the device is. It previously performed acceptably, then started performing poorly, with no indication to the user that there was an action needed to restore acceptable performance. Nobody expects a magic battery fix, but they do expect to be told that their device has been slowed down.
It's super ironic various EU government parts want to introduce encryption backdoors "for the good guys" (sic), without understanding they'll be opening themselves up to more scenarios like this. :/
This issue impacts literally every phone ever sold.

Manufactures can hide it any number of ways, but a new battery is always better even if your phone is exactly 1 day old. That’s what continuous degradation means.
No imagination.

I'm going to be a film company, get paid millions to work in different places, then have exactly zero profit when all is said and done.
Hopefully by then the cars will be able to drive themselves to a charger or park themselves away from your home.
You know you can disable SIP and Gatekeeper, right? It's just two terminal commands.
My dogs featured in a viral YouTube video and generated some income. I asked my CPA if I could deduct my dog food expenses. He said no. But I mean, if those dogs don't eat, they don't keep generating viral content!
From the US government[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
This is why I loved biology before I learned what biology research is really like. What I wanted was to recreate life from scratch, an impossible task with todays technology; the logical sequence of steps behind our biological origins is not hard to see and become enamored with, but I will never get the satisfaction of learning all its secrets.

With programming and computers this is so much closer, because these things are made my humans. Millions of man-years of effort, but still man-made. So, at least with computers I know I can learn how it's all done, and I know the steps needed to make all this technology are also known.
Thanks will look into that. Don't understand why at smallest GCE instance why the cost is so high for virtually no traffic.
I think there could be potential with allowing the community to moderate more of facebook/twitter. This is just based off of my theory that our perspective of who Others are is completely warped. We already know that the most extreme are the ones more likely to share extreme opinions, and that only some % of lurkers say things publicly, but even with that I think we're really ill-equipped to understand just how far it goes. If there's a huge silent population of kind reasonable people, people that don't spout off but are allowed to have some control of how content is authored and presented, maybe it could make a big difference.
haha is that vietnam(or china or sk or tw or nz) or usa???!!!
They are determined by the market - mostly - so how much you are paid is going to a function of how replaceable you are, and how much more money the company makes with your position filled or empty, notwithstanding dirty tricks that are somewhat rare.
I never had facebook on my phone and I dropped whatapp for signal. IG is the last piece I need to get rid of besides those apps I don't care about with the "sign in with facebook" crap.

I'm trying to quit IG so my next phone will be fb free but does anyone have any recommendations on how to make dropping IG easier? So far I made a group with friends so we can spam pics but it's not the same (probably cause not enough of us is spamming it)

Does anyone know of a IG replacement?
Ok but Bannon was permanently banned from Twitter for this
I am so happy you are healthy after being 10 years in coma

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use...
Au contraire, maturity entails realizing that if you haven't experienced something, you don't know what it's like. That's certainly true of creating a new human being.
Honestly, I don't buy the proof. When you take a formula that's valid for a certain range of inputs and just use it outside that range anyways, you're no longer in the land of proof. At that point, you're in the land of "if we extend out mathematical system, we get this". And that's fine, but you don't wind up with "sum(1...inf) === -1/12", you wind up with "in this other mathematical system, sum....".
Nobody can say that there is no legitimate doubt in any outcome that was this close. It doesn’t matter what your party is.

It’s also demonstrably false that there is no evidence of wrongdoing. Wrongdoing of various kinds has already been confirmed. It also doesn’t require wrongdoing to have doubt, which had also already been proven. That’s not even an open question. The open question is whether or not there may have been enough of it to affect the result. And there is room for reasonable doubt there.
It was a feature until it was discovered
I excelled at AP biology, but college biology was a total drag. Honestly, it's just the teachers, my high school teachers taught with passion in college it was a chore for my professors. At least software has more jobs and better pay, even if it's less fundamentally interesting.
Is there any evidence that the submitter of the code did not want to make the change? It seems quite possible that the contributor wanted to make this change and volunteered their time. If that’s the case, the complexity of the change should not be relevant. The only complexity to consider is the downstream complexity. And besides, the change seems to be a one-liner plus find-and-replace in thousands of unit tests. Could probably have been done in a matter of minutes.

I am just speculating of course and maybe they were very unhappy to have to do this.
Trusting sources and verifying information is actually an incredibly hard game. Being too credulous leaves you open to misinformation, but on the other hand, being uncritically skeptical leads to the current "fake news" environment where (to those involved) no source is credible and we might as well all just believe whatever meets our preconceptions and dismiss the rest.
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Even one's with a biologist as a founder? (Also not snark)
> Commissions to the platform owner.

You are being Pedantic. Yes, we all know it is commission. The iDevices are in effect portable computers. As Android and Sailfish run devices show us, nothing should stop Apple from allowing us to install and run softwares from outside their app store. The only reason to do so is to control our devices (they can disable any app, or even the whole device and make it unusable) and ofcourse greed to also gauge even more money from other developers.

The comparison with other closed devices, like gaming consoles, just attempts to divert focus away from Apple who is the most abusive in its attempt to control and dictate the apps that run on its platform. Obviously if developers are unhappy with Apple and Microsoft and Google's App store, they are also unhappy with the closed systems of consoles. And yes, what developers are criticising and demanding from Apple also applies to everyone else too.
Hi could you please elaborate on how this would work?

There have been several attempts at treating paper as first class - scanning reports, using a digital pen etc. But none of these solutions is convenient. How would you interface paper with software?
I've been struggling with this same thought recently too, namely because my partner who I love so dearly is struggling with diagnoses that most physicians are just not too informed on yet, let alone the underpaid, overworked public hospital system we're dealing with.

It took us years and years and years, tons of shot gun approaches by doctors with treatments, diagnoses, and medications that treat the symptoms but not the underlying cause til we finally figured out what could possibly be wrong with her!

And that was only after she started working in the health field herself and had physicians and specialists that care about her take into consideration everything about her and run expensive tests.

All this to say, I've been researching others' experiences with what my partner is inflicted with and those who are doing better or have some understanding had to figure a lot of it out on their own with countless medical research and studies they pore over - a lot of these success stories are from physicians inflicted with these diseases themselves!

But, how am i supposed to understand the studies, and papers, and drug mechanism of action sheets?

Do I start at ground 0 and start learning biology? What are some good resources?

And how do I know where to go from there?

All this is really troubling me and i feel so powerless.
Are fruits and vegetables designed to be addictive? Are hobbies like playing the piano or running designed to be addictive? I think you're too expansive in your use of "everything".
Not an expert, but I can imagine that a VPN and company laptop doesn't matter in the least when it comes down to Facebook sending certain material to employees, a legal battle coming of it, and the transmission occurring within vs. across state lines.

There must be some solution though, like requiring that the VPN connection originate from an address considered to be in the same state.
>You're asking if rejecting the result of free and democratic elections and pushing for the subversion of a democratic regime by arguing in favour of installing an illegitimate ruler at the highest position in government matters.

No, I’m not, and neither is anybody else. If you want a response, you’ll have to try to summarize my argument in terms that I agree with, because you are just making shit up and arguing with yourself here.
Beside the links provided in the article,

does anyone have any other articles, books, courses, lectures, youtubers, key people, papers, journals, interesting links/talks/podcasts/quotes they'd like to share to help others on their journy to understand biology better?

Thank you!
affirm is one of those things that was pretty interesting. Coming from a country where micro-installments at PoS was standard, i always thought it was really interesting the US didn't have it.

Good for them, I'll be buying shortly after their IPO.
I wouldn't consider that the lead example. More like ML algorithms completely destroyed all benchmarks for computer vision algorithms and changed the direction of research completely.
You have only properly looked at one side if that is your conclusion. You realize that the court cases haven’t completed yet, right? And we haven’t even seen the audit results? And the recount is in progress?
This is a great article. I had the same realization some years back - this stuff is amazing! Why didn't I get into it when I had a class on it? Of course, it's easy to rail on high school classes for failing to dazzle; maybe it was just my mind not quite being ready or willing to learn. But damn, biology is amazing. How does it all work??!!
Safari: sites load and then... "An unexpected error has occurred."
You clearly missed his point
Neat demo, totally get what you're doing now. One note: The demo has audio feedback echo. Why would the demo play back the microphone's input?
Show HN: Buying a 3080 was impossible with other sites' delays, so I built this
Salaries are determined by the market, but no one ever mentions how the market determines it... which is usually some combination of scarcity, quality, and, more realistically, how many connections you have, etc. These things give you bargaining power which you can use to negotiate salaries.

(This is all very basic stuff but it's more fleshed out than just saying 'the market determines salary'. The market isn't a magical entity, it is run by human behaviour.)
I think they are referring to ARP cache poisoning.

Or maybe Wi-Fi promiscuous mode packet sniffing, but that's a read-only attack.
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I'm sorry but I couldn't come up with a nicer way to ask an objective question about it.

The radio feature is global to all playback situations so I assumed that couldn't be it.
There's a big Flutter issue (since May) with jank on iOS - https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/32170, personally can't wait for this one to be resolved.
we have been trying to do things this way for years. The deteriorating condition of our democracy and electorate would suggest that we need a different approach
Feeding it could be harmful? We don't have to make the object of obsession instantly accessible and available 24-7.
Thank you for speaking about the unethical misuse that this tech makes also possible in your article.
nvm I was wrong, it's not that you didn't get it, you're just an idiot
I adore awk. I think its my most esoteric common linux tool
I'd really like to know how much all the people whinging think it would cost to offer the following to developers. Crunch your numbers and show your work:

1. A development platform that includes the toolchains and emulators for all the variations of the Apple hardware/OS environments (including the ability to distribute test versions to a restricted audience)

2. A secure platform for taking payments, including all chargeback risk, local consumer taxation requirements (VAT etc) worldwide.

3. A secure platform for in-app purchases, subscriptions, DRM on content (leave aside the arguments for/against)

4. Mechanisms for secure distribution to employee BYOD of employer specific applications, including capabilities to remove them from departing employees

5. A marketplace with search and discovery (however imperfect) that also provides for customer reviews, screenshots etc

Currently all of that (barring the MDM of point 4) costs a developer:

* $100/year

* 30% of purchase/subscription/in-app revenue
This is the unfortunate truth. Intelligence agencies have to learn to do more with less information if we want basic privacy to survive as a natural right.
This brings back memories from about a year ago when i was doing robotics.

Azure Kinect DK depth cameras had a firmware/hardware issue that would let it get stuck every now and then, and it would have to be power cycled. You'd imagine it'd be easy, but it was surprisingly hard. Ended up getting a new usb hub that supports power cycle...
>NOTE: I make no real claims in there, simply state the counter argument to the main media narrative

You claim that, and you might be acting in good faith, but enough bad faith actors have used the "I'm just asking questions" excuse that any fringe/conspiratorial material is assumed to be bad faith, and therefore flagged.
But at some point you'll _only_ be able to run ARM binaries. Rosetta2 will go away. Like how Rosetta went away for non-ARM Mac's, and now they can only run x86 binaries.

This is bad.
Those things were certainly novel and attractive.

But lets be honest - they weren't anywhere near the level of an instantly-available portable object you can keep in your pocket and pings you for attention all day and all night.

There's may be a threshold beyond what we can manage. A Polly-Anna attitude of "we've survived so far!" is not comforting nor convincing.

And the approach of "lets give ever-more-addictive devices to our children unrestricted until some provable damage occurs" is perhaps a negligent policy.
There are some SNOBOL books on archive.org I had a look at not long ago, including a detailed manual/tutorial - fascinating, takes you back to <1970. It seems to have been widely used from the mid 60s on, predating the "Unix Epoch". It's pretty cool and Awk resembles it in many ways. The manual starts with many pages telling you how to load all the tapes for the program in correct order!

"It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC.

SNOBOL4 stands apart from most programming languages of its era by having patterns as a first-class data type (i.e. a data type whose values can be manipulated in all ways permitted to any other data type in the programming language) and by providing operators for pattern concatenation and alternation. SNOBOL4 patterns are a type of object and admit various manipulations, much like later object-oriented languages such as JavaScript whose patterns are known as regular expressions. In addition SNOBOL4 strings generated during execution can be treated as programs and either interpreted or compiled and executed (as in the eval function of other languages).

SNOBOL4 was quite widely taught in larger US universities in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was widely used in the 1970s and 1980s as a text manipulation language in the humanities. ...

SNOBOL4 supports a number of built-in data types, such as integers and limited precision real numbers, strings, patterns, arrays, and tables (associative arrays), and also allows the programmer to define additional data types and new functions. SNOBOL4's programmer-defined data type facility was advanced at the time—it is similar to the records of the earlier COBOL and the later Pascal programming languages.

All SNOBOL command lines are of the form

label subject pattern = object : transfer

Each of the five elements is optional. In general, the subject is matched against the pattern. If the object is present, any matched portion is replaced by the object via rules for replacement. The transfer can be an absolute branch or a conditional branch dependent upon the success or failure of the subject evaluation, the pattern evaluation, the pattern match, the object evaluation or the final assignment. It can also be a transfer to code created and compiled by the program itself during a run.

A SNOBOL pattern can be very simple or extremely complex. A simple pattern is just a text string (e.g. "ABCD"), but a complex pattern may be a large structure describing, for example, the complete grammar of a computer language. It is possible to implement a language interpreter in SNOBOL almost directly from a Backus–Naur form expression of it, with few changes. Creating a macro assembler and an interpreter for a completely theoretical piece of hardware could take as little as a few hundred lines, with a new instruction being added with a single line."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
But that's the way it works with an author who sells their own books as well - which you've said you're okay with.
Isn’t the information loss problem hypothetical in the first place? I doubt anyone has seriously tried to observe information coming out of a black hole.
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