skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very informative though some links are dead, the internet archive should be used for permalinks.

I didn't think finding incidents with a robotic arm.
Future, what's coming ? I hope this website will stay up in front of the big corporations.
Based on my experience with python, the python used global variables (which is idiomatic for scripts), making it about 10x slower than normal python.

The other 10x? That also matches my experience with other people’s python.

Someone probably tried to implement an abstraction, or something foolish like that.
I work on distributed teams that are spread across 10 to 12 time zones. We depend on people making local decisions that are approximately right, because confirming a decision may mean a 24 to 48 hour cycle of back and forth communications.

In these situations it's more important to share "what is the problem" than how to solve it.
I remember free mp3s.

Plus a ton of guys arguing about free beer or speech, and me having zero understanding of why any of it was a big deal.
The bullish case for Bitcoin (2018)
The "yearly fee" could pay for it, it'd just be several billion per year. Their existing business model is the one that's best for Apple, users, and small developers.
Ya, most people do that in their mind.
Sure, but the argument becomes circular, doesn't it? They deserve X% because you use their APIs, and they force you to use their APIs. Congratulations? If it's so expensive to develop/maintain those APIs that they can't afford to part with them for less than 30%+cost of hardware, maybe they shouldn't require you to use them?
Governments are non-profit, but history shows us that government news sources are heavily biased.
Port Scanning Voting Machines?
In the UK, had an accountant who did something similar for us. Want to avoid a bunch of taxes on large landscaped property? Get a few cows and goats and classify it as a "farm" property. Transportation charges and date-night dinners? Business expense.

Western tax laws were a joke to me as an outsider, heavily geared towards the haves. But hey, I was contributing to the economy too.
If you want to study biology, study evolution. Darwin. Dawkins. Gould. King. Biology only makes sense in light of evolution, and boy howdy is it beautiful.
The article links to a thread on the linux-usb mailing list where the author mentions he does sometimes resort to that.

It sounds to me like the author genuinely wants to have a discussion about some of the quirks in the USB protocol. I don't see anything wrong with pursuing all available options.
Amazon employee here, speaking for myself, not the company. When I was hired, every senior employee (IC and manager, regardless of role) had to go work in a fulfillment center for a week sometime during your first year, learning and then performing all the jobs.

I’m a computer guy, but there I was loading trucks, packing boxes, etc.

It was a fantastic experience and connected you viscerally to the business. I believe it is still required. This is the culture that Jeff shaped for the company.
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Trump boat parades are an example. Some were epic in scope, thousands of boats. Multiples more people on beaches. Nicest bunch of people.

News almost completely ignored it.
HN Bingo: Commenter doesn't recognize an obvious joke and responds seriously.
Where were you watching them? Assuming you mean these, hosted on egghead:

https://egghead.io/instructors/adam-wathan
Thanks for saying this. In one case we set a moral example by agreeing to let China and Co. sell us cheap disposable goods with the explicit goal of lifting their farming class out of poverty. We did this at the expense of millions upon millions of Americans and their descendants. It's a real shame that neither political party can agree on a set of actions to reverse that trend.
Malware can't do all that much but drain your battery with Android's sandboxing unless you're rooted.
Imposter syndrome is a lack of confidence. The most sure way to be rid of it is to know your performance capabilities in a given domain. If you have knowledge gaps be honest and clear about. Don’t be embarrassed.

The most important part of confidence is honesty with yourself and others. If it turns out that honesty suggests you are not qualified for a given job or task you at least will not have imposter syndrome.

Sometimes being honest with yourself means forming critical decisions and defying trends. If you have mastered a given skill while ignoring a related trendy new framework you may have trouble getting a new job in that knowledge domain but you won’t have imposter syndrome because you are clear about your real world performance.

After a while of fully over coming imposter syndrome, a couple years, in a domain where it is common you will perceive things very differently than your peers. It is never about knowledge gaps but delivery and product quality. People frequently engrossed with imposter syndrome where those people are TGIF majority will continue to believe it’s all about knowledge gaps. This distinction influences differences in a variety of decisions. The differences of behaviors form patterns that are insecure and defensive.
That's been done already; Pongo OS and Sandcastle were running on the devkits, unless some huge change is made to the M1 it should run all the same. Problems so far were lack of device drivers; there isn't even disk access right now because there is no NVME Controller driver made yet (well, except the one in macOS and iOS of course).
Yes, this has been fixed, thanks!
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That’s interesting.

Replacing awk, grep, cut and sort with direct implementations of relational algebra has been on my TODO list for about 10 years.

(V2 would build relational calculus on that)
While I agree with your point, that linked article has a seemingly perverse way of defining middle class.

Middle class = 0.67(median household income) - 2.0(median household income)

Was there something wrong with the traditional definition of middle quintiles?
Homepage doesn't even say what EMR is nor what the project is about.
That was my understanding. This is work for hire meaning the copyright holder was the prior company and was the only one with an asset that would require a usage license. They chose to pay Alan, which is not a statutory agreement.

The copyright holder (the company) is the only one that can levy usage licenses aka royalties that other people need to pay it.

Disney became the copyright holder and so Disney is owed royalties from whomever has a usage license that the previous company negotiated.

Anything else is a liability that was shed or simply stayed in the now defunct company. If the contract was irreconcilably tied to the company then Disney would opt not to buy the shares and instead by all the assets and network and trademark.
You jest, but as an unincorporated sole proprietorship (aka if you do random freelance work on the internet without making a company) you can deduct all your business expenses (including the part of your apt rent that you used for doing the profit making activity) just as a normal individual.
On the other hand, one is more likely to rise to success in biology if memorizing countless and ever-increasing mountains of facts is not a taxing chore as you wait to accumulate enough context and experimental expertise see a pattern somewhere and know which assays lend to feasible testing of ideas. Intro biology classes (e.g. cell biology) can in this way often be weeder classes, sadly.
Is there any research that proves that internet miss information is any worse than the typical propaganda that people have been subjected too for the majority of our recent history?
Element (Riot) supports markdown, including markdown code blocks which are really handy for situations like this. You can even have syntax highlighting.
> those that focused on quantity

This isn't quite accurate. In that anecdote, those focused on quality did nothing but sit around and theorize. Had they spent their time evaluating their skills and improving them with an actual focus on quality, they would've no doubt had the better result.
This is pretty old news; it was all covered at WWDC in the summer.

It's still nice to see a thorough official writeup, and it will be interesting to see what the hobbyist hacker community comes up with.
I was paranoid for a long time about things like SIP and SecureBoot but think of it this way. What is the likelihood that you are infected by a bootkit versus some 0day that affects your browser? My main beef w/ rootless/SIP/Gatekeeper and these types of technology is that you no longer own your hardware, you are a slave to the HW manufacturer.
Why do people buy coffee from Starbucks?

Is it because Starbucks has the most efficient cost outlay for long term investment in a user's needs?

Or is it because people just want some damn coffee and there's one on every corner?

Or is it because, in a world full of places to buy coffee, one place gives you everything you could ever dream of in a coffee place?

That is what the big cloud providers are. They are Starbucks. They are not the cheapest. They aren't even the best. But they are everything you want.

If your company gets Starbucks-huge, you don't need to buy your coffee from Starbucks. You have your own deals with roasters and your own supply chains and baristas and coffee logistics experts.

That's why some companies build their own. Not because it's a better idea (it's not), or because Starbucks costs too much (compared to the investment in re-creating Starbucks?). It's because they are a business that effectively makes their own coffee already, so it makes no sense to pay Starbucks for it. Of course, they won't have a Starbucks once they make their own coffee, but they will have served their needs well enough.
I doubt a bunch of kids will be inclined to take action against Disney for this. They wouldn't even know what's happening, nor will their parents. Guessing Disney is counting on this for the case to be a non-issue.
I started reading The Arabian Nights a while back. The OCR errors in the edition that was in Apple's book store (which I believe was from Project Gutenberg) made the book damn near unreadable. I don't think I even finished the first volume (although I did eventually figure out that “cloth” was supposed to be “doth”).
>The rule that precludes your hypothesis is much simpler: the laws of physics don't change with time

Why should we believe this rule?
That's strange. Disney acquired Lucasfilm outright from George Lucas.[1] Or so they said. There appear to be five remaining active Lucasfilm LLCs, and one that was converted to a company. One of those may retain the liability.

[1] https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-to-acquire-lucasfilm...
>> Setting a moral example by Doing the Right Thing would be a ridiculously huge mistake.
> OK, cool, but this can be applied then to not only spying, this can be used to justify ANYTHING done by a government.

Apply that logic to police forces and you get the situation we are in now.
> The course was so much about WHAT and never about WHY.

Biology is pretty notorious for most stuff being arbitrary. There is no model. People who say there's a model, they're talking about something else - sometimes, a literal Platonic ideal of biology, that makes for an appealing pop science course, but not knowledge that like, helps you design experiments or better use drugs or whatever.

From the article:

> It was hard to get through a sentence without having to consult Wikipedia. In immunology in particular the nomenclature is expansive.

This is a common refrain. "Paternal allo-antigens" for example, straight from the literature: people who do immunology research know what that means, they do not get tripped up like this author does.

Programming computers and being good at math does not prepare you at all for understanding this stuff! Watson and Crick were not math savants. They did not have natural gifts.
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I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard that R&D angle before. But I wonder is HN would be so positive on TSLA if it were instead “Musk decided to pay his engineers less so he could innovate instead!”
1) I don't think a line has to be drawn somewhere. It's fine to evaluate on a case by case basis.

2) Even if I make a mistake, I think it's fine to apologize, say I didn't realize (and not repeat it with that person), and move on.

It doesn't have to cripple me into not being able to speak... we're all reasonable people.
Typical response. Everyone does it so it’s fine.
Google has an unlimited as budget too. Indeed it has access to advertise on properties that Apple can never purchase access too.
It’s related. Your actual gains = (Fee * winnings ) - opportunity cost.

The effective withdrawal fee is 1 - (actual gains / ( winnings - opportunity cost)).

So if the actual fee is 10% your winnings are 2$ and your opportunity cost is 1$ them the effective fee is 20%. In other words a 10% withdrawal fee dropped your actual gains from 1$ to 80 cents.

However if your winnings where 1,000$ then your effective withdrawal fee is 10.01% dropping your actual gains from 999$ to 899$. In other words fees are more impactful on high probability bets than low probability bets.
Surely funding these upgrades can be funded from the future booked revenue from the charging. I am sure the private sector would be chomping at the bit to capture a monopoly for these services as well.
hombre_fatal's explanation further upthread is exactly on point. Forking is the only sensible option.
This is great, but I wish it were clearer that we had to apply with a linkedin URL before actually getting to test the thing out.
To clarify - I'm saying this is a terrible situation and it will be interesting to hear Disney's side because it is so unbelievable to me that a company would just literally argue this line of logic without there being something we are missing.

If there is nothing missing, then shame shame shame
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Ok, that makes sense. MMS is more the default here and is used mostly instead, not exactly sure why. But SMS would work fine for most of the use cases.
>Better treatment against the rampant ageism in our industry

I don’t know your location, but in the US it’s already illegal to discriminate against someone’s age if they’re over 40
My ex gf went to a Waldorf school. She proceeded to CU Boulder and promptly failed out of pre engineering classes because she didn't know how to use a computer.
I think there is disagreement over whether "master record" is offensive, and frustration that time and energy are wasted arguing over it (as commenters here are doing).
The fact is this is not how ideas progressed historically.

Eventually regressive nations LOSE economically, politically, and in warfare. They are not convinced through debate.
True, but there is a widespread misbelief because of the misquoted Craig Federighi that only macOS would be allowed.

Craig was saying that they wouldn't "support" booting other operating systems and wanted people to use VMs, but this was widely misunderstood as him saying that Apple would actively not support instead of passively not supporting other OSs.
Didn't follow the leap to "remortgage". Which service allows remortgaging of consumer goods?

Don't forget that Alice gets to sit in the chair 10 months sooner, and study for their GMAT or CISSP.
Your description sounds like the definition of financing.

Yes, with financing there’s a trade off. In exchange for paying interest, you have the item that much sooner.

Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but this is missing in your before example:

Alice has to sit on the floor because she doesn’t have a chair. After 10 months of doing this, she has terrible posture and joint pain from sitting on the floor all the time. Despite her pleas, doctors say that her increased purchasing power won’t cure her ailments.
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“capitalism breeds innovation” the innovation: Disappearing posts
I'd much rather the only open source phone in the world not focus on proprietary messaging protocol, especially one which is overly hostile to third party clients.

I think Anbox is a mistake for the Librem. If you want android apps just run android. All this effort to have a totally independent OS, but really just run android apps on it.
Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? Something morally trivial can be legally complicated.
Can't believe they subject humans to psychological trauma daily and they don't offer unlimited pyschotherapy. Sheesh.

I really gotta cancel my Facebook account. What greed.
It might be counter productive to think it'll get better if people can just assume social media sites will ban/flag misinformation correctly. Maybe only lower profile stuff will slip through, but the volume of misinformation will barely change I suspect and users that haven't learned how to train their own filter might be more likely to believe "unflagged" content.
> I really think people need to think long and hard before they take a side on opening the Pandora's box.

The box was opened 40 years ago at least, as a fetus I was screened due to a down syndrome older sister.

> This is far from a cure to genetic diseases it is removal of diseased individuals from the population

100% of down syndrome men and 30-50% of women are infertile. Throw in dating challenges and issue regarding consent and theses genes aren't going to last long anyway.
The world will have a master. The question is, who do you want the master to be?

Your choices are America, China, or Russia. That's it.

You may not like it, but you can't do anything about it, and denying it and raising a fuss about it is childish naivety, not at its finest, but at its absolute worst.
> The NSA has a budget bigger than entire countries economic output. Not everyone spies on everyone to the same extent.

Very few countries have vast global interests, you can count them on one hand. Of course the US has extensive global spying efforts and of course its spying activities do not compare to smaller nations, nations with smaller economies, nations with a fraction of the military responsibilities that the US has, and so on.

The US doesn't have any interest in what direction allies and enemies go with their military hardware, such that espionage would be warranted to know in advance if at all possible? Is that a joke?

Macron has been saying variations of this: "Europe can no longer rely on the United States for its security" - for the past several years (pushing for his pet European defense force idea). Do you know what that means? That's one of the world's most powerful nations openly admitting Europe presently depends on the US for its security. That has been true for over seven decades now. That's a massive responsibility, and the same is true for the US in Asia. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand all depend on the US for their security in one form or another (against China specifically and going forward in particular, as China will grow far more powerful and threatening). Numerous other nations in Asia will join that list, eg Vietnam will come to depend on the US as a military hedge against China.

Now kindly point out all the other various nations that have similar global responsibilities on their shoulders.
I think there are a few problems that result in this sad state of affairs, and unfortunately they are not constrained to biology (eg 'why isn't mathematics taught with wonder?').

1. Teachers are required to do evaluations, and the way we have settled on doing evaluations is giving students giant, shitty tests. In order to pass these tests, lots of rote memorization is required.

2. Five years of being forced to teach-to-the-test latter, your original wonderment for the material is not going to shine through in period 5 bio.

3. The average teacher is over-worked, over-stressed, and worried about a lot of other baggage that comes along with being a teacher. This last point is true of teachers from public elementary schools all the way to professors at big research institutions (where many lecturers are researchers halfheartedly box-checking a teaching requirement).

4. Teaching - particularly pre-university - is viewed as a relatively low-status career (with a commensurate paycheck), at least in the US. A lot of the people who feel wonderment for these subjects and could teach them well end up being driven away from teaching as a result.

There are teachers who manage to bring joy and wonderment into the classroom, despite all of the problems that lead us here. But we need to address these problems if we want the average bio classroom to be taught with wonder, instead of being 1-hour mind-numbing sessions where you pretend to be studying from your index cards.
your phone has as much computing power as an average k8 cluster
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There is more gate keeping for TV, therefore less false information. Anyone can post on Twitter or Facebook.
> Not everyone spies on everyone to the same extent.

Then good for the NSA, spying is their job, for the advancement of American interests[0].

[0] The point of 'playing' international politics - the advancement of one's country's interests.
> doesn't mean the revenue share they currently have is unfair.

Sure it does. That is because competition is being prevented.

> Other companies have a similar revenue share

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.

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.

> It will help developers but it wouldn't necessarily reduce the prices

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.

It helps them because more resources can be spent on the game to make it 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.
Thanks for digging this up! It only addresses the YouTube half, but if memory serves the Google half is due to a mandatory deep integration between browser profiles and Google cookies. I'm unclear if they classified that one as a "bug" (not that it really matters since they use custom HTTP headers to implement tracking for google properties).
I found some more info:

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...

Seems like only binaries compiles to run natively on ARM will require signatures. Still seems like its going to introduce some inconvenience for developers/power-users.
S/he is asking you, in reply, why it is OK for some people to get better purchasing power for the same economic contribution.
I am an gadget fan. I wouldn’t be caught dead with an Android or a Windows thingy in my hand.
Also a small dev. Here is the thing. Apple offers no revenue promise when I publish my app on iOS. If I don’t figure out how to market my app, it will just sit there and rot.
But as soon as someone buys my app, I have to pay 15% to Apple. What for?
It did NOT help me get my customer. If my app gets featured then may be I ll pay for the purchase bump. But what if I don’t want to be featured if it’s not worth the cut.
I am paying plain and simple because Apple has the key to my customers phone. Where I come from, that shit is called extortion.