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iOS audio app request to coders
Coding for iOS? Please create an app where it amplifies all sound across the platform irregardless (it is a word) of the origination of the audio stream along with a 9-slide position E/Q and here is the clincher, (the hook) have this app automatically read adjust audio level to whatever the fuck it was before the damn phone mutes it and if you touch the screen a smidge wrong you get a written mini me lecture on going deaf before you completely drop what you are doing to get the correct audio feed queued up and back to the previous level (full blast). Keep in mind if they were corded headphones one could tell by measuring the impedance how large and loud the speakers and sound was by inference. There should be coming down the slot new protocols to identify type and size and audio noise level per brand per speaker but till then (spoiler alert) the caveat and reason for guaranteed sales is the volume is mandated to go down as it hits a certain exposure limit on a seven(7) day cycle and APPLE is prohibited from disabling this ‘so called safety cut out switching mechanism’ but with 10x\n apps they will in fact turn a blind eye to an app turning the volume level back up after they have turned it down (?) I’m supposing even if in the neighborhood of microseconds as long as it also interacts with their lectures and teaching on public awareness of the fact that everyone who goes to concerts and other venues where sound levels are hostile without adequate protection or sound deadening earbuds they would not give a fuck bc they would not have someone as the likes of me calling out their bullshit and even further than complaining on why my Red SE2020 came with CORDED HEADPHONES WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY WHITE!!!!!!! APPLE !!! YOU OWE ME A PAIR OF RED!! CORDLESS EARBUDS YOU CHEAP FUCKS!!!! And I want my experimental AI keyboard geared spell correcting sub routine back bc it was perfect and as I am writing this request to coders as to be released to the public domain free of costs
Money is what debt is often denominated in. Money being a good which is widely accepted for trade isn’t the same as an obligation. I may have dollars but that doesn’t mean anyone is obligated to give me anything for them, and what they decide to trade for them is entirely up to them.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. According to it, 0-conf transactions are possible in BTC as well. Why isn't more people using this? It seems safe enough, since attacking such a transaction is probably more expensive than the gains from the scam.
I presume that a register of those who have been vaccinated would be a much larger list. It would however aid efforts of everyone having a “vaccine passport” to help with getting international travel back to normal.

A whitelist (as in people of who have been vaccinated) does seem to be more sensible to be in the case of international travel in case the vaccine passport is lost while traveling for example.
I have hobby books from 30 years ago that teach you how to build magnetic heads for cassette tapes. No pictures or anything but with enough patience you definitely can build one today, at home (even then). Mind you, the size of the gap is not that big of the problem if you put your mind at polishing.
Here's a better solution.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

TL;DR:

alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/src/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
dotfiles add
dotfiles commit
...
Apple Watch leak offers rare glimpse inside Apple’s ‘Ultra security program
Anecdotally, a potential counterpoint: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

And the discussion that came with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653
I think computational researchers will end up figuring P=NP just to spite the quantum computing people
Hi everyone!

I love Hacker News, the problem is that, like all social platforms, it easily becomes a slot machine. Every time you look there is a new post or comment!

HackerDaily is built to alleviate this problem as well as a few others:

- The posts are grouped per day, starting from yesterday. So you never miss the best posts

- It has an improved collapsing comment system

- It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your homescreen and use it as an app

- It has a dark mode

- It's open source[1]

I would love to hear what you think about it!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource
It’s used commonly when working with unreliable communication (e.g. networking). For example, if you make a request but you don’t get a response, either the request or the response might have failed to send. It’s convenient if you don’t need to determine which case occurred; idempotent functions free you from worrying about whether the requested action was carried out.
You can just invest in big corporations on the stock market. In emerging countries big companies are often there just through corruption, cronyism etc. so they are not a good deal.
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Since I had to look up more info to understand this explanation, I'll try to give my own, using the numbers for LTO-8.

The drive has 32 heads, and reads/writes 32 tracks at a time. It goes from the start of the tape to the end, then aligns with the next 32 tracks and reverses direction.

Each group of 32 tracks is called a wrap. There are 208 wraps, so 6656 total data tracks. Even wraps go one direction, and odd wraps go the other direction.

That's the important part.

But also the tape is divided into 4 "bands", each one holding a quarter of the wraps/tracks. Between the bands, and at the edges of the tape, are special servo tracks that are used for alignment.

So when a source talks about "wraps per band", it's pointless abstraction. Unless you're really in the weeds, the only thing you want to know is the total number of wraps.
> They appear, to me, to be acting from a place of fear and conservatism rather than innovation.

Bingo. Here's a fun exercise: try to find the last genuinely useful feature added to the Maps API in the release notes.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

To give you a taste, here's the largest change made in 3.42:

> InfoWindows now have a default max width of 648px which can be overridden by setting the InfoWindow maxWidth property. The width of an InfoWindow can now exceed 648px but will still be limited by the width of the map. (Previously, Infowindows were always restricted to the lesser of 648px or the map width.)

Also note that the minor version (0.x) is incremented quarterly, and we're up to 3.43 now, so over 10 years.
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The analogy is more like: what if your pool table is the only "computer" in the world, could you map any real other problems you have onto that "computer"? I'm pretty sure you would come up with some clever mappings.
Are you familiar with the story of the force field generated at the 3M plant apparently in 1980?

It would probably take more power than that to do what is being suggested from the distances that are being suggested.

I'm not sure it's feasible.
I've shipped two commercial games on Steam and PS4. My advice, don't quit your job just yet. It's extremely, extremely hard to make a living off game making.

At the rate the industry is going, I give you a whopping 1 in 1000 chances of matching your current wage making games.
Absolutely true. Whenever someone says "how can you drink your coffee black and without sugar", I reply "because it actually has its own taste like that".

Sweetened beverages lose their original taste and cluster around a common taste that feels like glue in your mouth - at least once you wean yourself off sugar. The spectrum of tastes of sweetened beverages is very narrow.
We might repurpose "418 I'm a teapot", now with bucatini power.
Thank you! This was exactly my intention when I created it. :)
There are. The tradeoff of speed vs. complexity is currently sitting at 32 heads.
It seems like she had fun writing it too - so also an example of how a boring assignment can be made interesting!
Exponential growth can do quite a lot in 500 years. What happened to North America?

During that time, the population of Europe increased as well - many people just thought that America was a better place to live.

There's no need to wait for "full saturation of a star system" to send out probes and colony ships.
Ask HN: What's an efficient way to validate problem existence for SaaS?
In the past, I have been doing surveys and posts on various reddit and FB groups of related topics. However, the engagement/feedback rate has been low. Alternative of going in person to offices is a little tricky because of Covid.

I do not want to start building products before knowing that it is problem many people face and would be willing to pay for a solution.

So I was wondering 1) if anyone had tips on how to validate problem existence, and 2) if solution may work for users in theory, more efficiently and remotely?
I suppose I should be the first to point out that 982.002 is not actually an integer :)

But, as the article puts it, "suspiciously close". Except, I guess you'd accept .003 as close also. And, from the other side, you have .999, .998 etc. If you accept the range .995 to .005 as "close", that's already 11 values, so around 1 in 90 chance of hitting it at random.

Except, there might be other "suspicious" values. Like, .100, .200 etc. That gives us another 9. And then you could have things like .111, .222 etc.

If you accept around 50 different suspicious values of some sort then there's a 1 in 20 chance of hitting one at random. That doesn't seem so suspicious to me.
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This registry will be used to deny people of services.
I too see anger (and all other emotions we experience) as an evolutionary adaptation. It is more a neurological fact than a metaphysical matter woven into the fabric of reality, in the manner that philosophers tend to discuss it.

In this case, anger is a loss response. Sadness is also a loss response but it looks back in time and works to reduce one's activity level, while anger is forward looking and tends to drive one towards more action. (Unrelated, but fear is also a loss response, but a response to a potential loss).

Anger also generally (but not always) requires that the one experiencing anger recognizes the perceived cause of anger as an agent with free will. We don't feel angry, for example, when we get caught in the rain (unless it is at ourselves for not bringing an umbrella). However, we have seen animals (such as chimpanzees and dogs) on occasion expressing what look like anger at inanimate objects that have hurt them.

Perhaps there are other intelligent species out there with a different evolutionary path that has a larger number of primary emotions. And perhaps there are others who only possess one emotion in place of both anger and sadness. It is a subject worth examining from an evolutionary and neurological angle, rather than philosophical.
Well you can have a situation where someone cannot take the vaccine because of adverse medical reactions and someone else who does not take does not take the vaccine objecting for personal reasons working at the same place of employment. Suppose the first one is already hired, and the second one comes in as a new hire. Does the first one now have grounds to litigate because their workplace is now potentially unsafe for them to work in through no fault of their own? What about the reverse situation? Does the employer not hire an otherwise capable employee because of a health reason that they have no control over?
exactly, I eat a lot raw leeks (the green parts are the best raw of course, for the white part, I let it a few days so it gets less 'spicy'), raw spinach, raw onion leaves, raw green cabbages or kale cabbages and a lot of fruits (clementines, oranges, pears, persimmons, and figs/medlars when it's the season). I find this food either in the nature (you gotta search a bit) or at local farm

I used to eat a lot of honey, completely stopped, not even talking about other stuff like chocolate, or other processed products/meals, I stopped a long time ago, the cooking is done is my belly, no need for fanciness!
I really like that solution, thanks. It also means I can easily move my current git dir to the new place and still have everything work.

Does anyone know if syncing a git repo over Syncthing (or similar) is a good idea or whether there are likely to be conflicts? I don't know if git names its files such that conflicts aren't possible.
> I'd be more incredulous than angry

I like your comments. But on one point ...

Decades ago, reading Seneca’s “On Anger” changed my life overnight.

I went from feelings of anger every 3 or 4 weeks to maybe once a year.

And those occasions always concern those dearest to me, of whom I hold such great expectations.

That’s because anger to me is one of disappointment of expectation.

I would never feel ‘incredulous’ if someone stole or claimed credit for my work. I’d more feel “inevitability”. When you work with hundreds of people over time it will happen.

And anger just doesn’t come into it at all. I do t avoid it, I haven’t eradicated it, I don’t control it. I’ve found a way of living where it very rarely arises.

So aligning lived experience with an expectation model means anger isn’t something I avoid, it just doesn’t arise. When it does, it’s because my mind refuses to incorporate into any expectation model that my child will die, or my spouse will cheat. Perhaps in others minds, they can’t incorporate the expectation colleagues will steal work.

It’s interesting that I am perfectly happy with my partner being someone who does get angry. It washes through her like a cleanser. There are many paths to happiness.
Similar story. The old Apple Maps icon was where the N De Anza Boulevard crossed over the Junipero Serra Freeway. Center of the old icon [0] was One Infinite Loop, top left of the icon was the Cupertino Hotel.

Going from the Cupertino Hotel to One Infinite Loop on foot felt like I was risking life and limb, despite it having pedestrian lights [1].

[0] http://thetrendler.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Maps-Icons...

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/ZMBq8RzpZLc6xwM97
I think that's a lot more common in software where safety matters. Often such software is developed according to some regulations like ISO26262.
If you like this writing style, food critic Jay Rayner writes in a way I find pretty similar: https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/jay-rayner-on-restau...
Yes, it is based on /front, but it uses your local time to set the days, instead of UTC. The problem with /front is that the front page is always only 1 click away.

I also created it to use (in my opinion) a better UI and UX, to add a dark mode, and to make it a PWA.
I’m really looking forward to a pile of reduced-safety standards from the people who gave us the Grenfell disaster...
>XRP is centralized

Useless statement XRP is the token there is no definition what makes the token centralized or not. Half the tokens owned by one party? or maybe a quarter is enough already? Its a useless statement as there is no common definition. no one talks about token decentralization anyway. Its about the control over the network that should not be centralized.

>the ledger is permissioned

This is factually wrong. Anyone can transact on the ledger there is no permission required form anyone and no one has the power to exclude someone.

>so not just anyone can join the network in a meaningful way

Also factually wrong. You can "join" the network in any possible way (node/full node/validator/participant/developer/you name it). You can change the code and send in you amendment. If 80% think is worth adding its added. If not its probably because the proposal was garbage not because someone has the power to block your amendment. So far there has been 1 amendment not supported by ripple that still reached the 80% support. Ripple could do absolutely nothing against that.

XRPs existence is also not determined by the USA. XRP would exist without ripple or the USA as long some people run the software it exists. Even if all would go offline it could be restarted any time.
Absolutely love Chezmoi.

Its a small, statically linked binary which is easy to install and the templating feature is really useful.
I was really impressed when I got to check these out in person. My main concern though is noise and 'frame rate'. It wasn't loud for a machine shop, but was loud for an office. Id love to know a way to increase the frame rate without hitting that 'audible range' issue.
As a counterpoint, if you are used to real, language-supported numerical arrays, then numpy's ndarray seems like a joke.
Yeah. Heck, just adding a little "resume previous navigation" button to the Maps screen for when you exit Navigation by mistake would be handy.
I guess this is taking "innovation" as "stuff you put in your house" or "new vehicles". It's mostly an argument for older people. Fact is that there is no more need for "hardware" but there's hunger for software.
Each classroom in Italy now has a screen instead of a blackboard. But hey, in 2020 we are all schooling from home. No big deal?
No more need to travel to school for parents at all. We are ordering pizza with a button so hey, no mysterious "ordering tool".
Our world, jobs and knowledge is being digitalized, so no more need for specialized hardware.
In the 90's phones were about text. Then photos, then videos, then Internet, then ordering pizza, videoconferencing, calling a taxi, interacting with the State, going to the bank, reading the news. So no junky appliances in our kitchens, we have delivery.
Unless you accept that innovation is not always about having more, but changing ways, then you won't be able to point that out and appreciate.
And this is something people born before the 1980 tend not to accept.
Reflections on the Lack of Adoption of Domain Specific Languages [pdf]
This will not solve the "space junk" problem as the title claim. A piece of wood traveling in space at a huge speed would break any other satellite it hits, and wood does not rot in space and just dissapear.

This potentially solves (partially) the problem of pieces of satellites surviving the reentry after they are out of use.
> Unfortunately most undergraduates get locked in early with free student versions and continue to use it in industry.

Why no octave? Or julia?
I actually think most of the governmental functions in this article worked quite well. Told another way, a firm in the marketplace for pasta found that a competitor was out of regulation with their product, and they found a person in congress who could press a slow-moving and ineffective agency to do better at doing their job: enforcing said regulations.

That's exactly what you want your elected representatives to do: listen to their constituents and act accordingly to ensure a fair outcome according to the law. Note that no laws were changed in this to favor one company over another, if anything the previous state was one in which the company in question was profiting from shipping out-of-regulation product, perhaps at decreased cost compared to in-compliance firms.

The rule itself can be debated, but in general I find that a law specifying in exact numbers what a product should contain in order to qualify for a label to be a very good law. It's exact, it's measurable, and it's achievable by all. Fair and equal enforcement should make it a good regulation.

If you say "well you don't need this law, it's over-regulation", that's a good argument -- I'm not sure I have an opinion on that. On one hand, I think Standard of Identification make a lot of sense, but I also know that drawing the lines can be a very delicate art form (what makes a pasta noodle vs. a ramen noodle? What makes champagne vs. sparkling wine? And so on)

Edit: Also, I think a lot of this could be dealt with better by an FDA that has a good communication arm. "We found this company to not be compliance with existing law and took it off the shelves" sounds a lot better than having the company get to print saying "Seems like a hold up by the FDA"
It is possible to get a blood check to see if you have antibodies from a previous infection.
Indeed.

Also, the "purposes" of Section 3 explicitly lists CI as "(B)", followed (confusingly) by "B.".

> For purposes of this Section 3: (A) End User Lessee means a Lessee who is the end user ultimately using the leased Apple Software solely for Permitted Developer Services; and (B) Permitted Developer Services means continuous integration services, including but not limited to software development, building software from source, automated testing during software development, and running necessary developer tools to support such activities. Each Lessor must provide Apple with advance notice prior to leasing or subleasing the Apple Software pursuant to this Section 3 by contacting Apple Developer Relations (https://developer.apple.com/contact/macos-license/).

> B. Subleasing. A Lessee may further sublease the Apple Software pursuant to this Section 3 provided that such Lessee complies with all of the terms of this Section 3. A Lessee subleasing the Apple Software (who shall also be considered a Lessor under this Section 3) must fully relinquish exclusive use and control of the Apple Software and the Apple-branded hardware on which it is installed to its Lessee during the lease period.

From which I understand that e.g 1. MacStadium is a "Lessor", 2. GitHub is a "Lessee" that does subleasing and has to lease for 24h minimum, and 3. a GitHub Actions user is a "End User Lessee" but could lease for fractions of 24h.

Strangely this means that GH cannot provide macOS on its own!

Also, this seems to mean that GH has to provide bare metal to its users, not VMs ("must fully relinquish exclusive use and control of the Apple Software and the Apple-branded hardware"), which is too bad given what you can do with VMs[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25568613
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bbatsov’s contributions to vim and emacs packages are huge. I must use over a dozen of his packages regularly. To say nothing of Ruby tooling etc...

If you are reading, thank you so much!
The writing was brilliant. Reading it was like quenching a long thirst. It reminds of me reading the New York Times or Financial Times 10 or more years ago.
true there is https://github.com/p8952/bocker.