skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not you that's killing the test subjects; they're doing it to themselves. (Well, it depends on the experimental setup, but it can be easily arranged that way: you could leave a spray bottle on the table and tell them "This contains the coronavirus. If you spray your face with it, you will help our experiment, but risk death. You are also free to just go home and face no consequences.") I don't understand the argument for moral relevance.
I'm surprised more people don't compare books like Pinker's Enlightenment Now (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now) to The Great Illusion
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion) which claimed war was impossible due to economic interdependence and new massively destructive weapons(published 1911). Pinker makes many similar points about progress and the reduction of violence in the 20th and 21st century, which for me is actually a worrying sign.
I live in Australia and while I'm excited to see less Facebook use, I see a lot of comments saying things like, "good, Facebook monetized an addiction model and this curbs that". While true, the proposed law that has pushed them to do this is incredibly dangerous. The law doesn't just apply to Facebook, it applies to whoever the Treasurer of Australia[0] says it applies to - it isn't metrics/rules based: https://i.imgur.com/7RSqXDJ.png

This means you as a business owner may wake up one day to find that you are now classified as a designated digital platform corporation and are on the hook to now negotiate contracts with every registered news business corporation, AND provide each of them with the secret sauce behind your ranking algos. The only thing that needs to be done to do this is for the Treasurer to file a decision in the Federal Register of Legislation[1]. It's a shocking amount of overreach, lack of visibility to the process, and a single point of failure in the system.

Overall I'm very curious to see how this plays out. Facebook took the nuclear option here, and I highly suspect that news corporations will feel quite a sting from the loss of traffic / platform. I truly feel like Facebook "winning" here and having the law dropped is the lesser of two evils.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasurer_of_Australia

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Browse/Results/ByRegDate/Legi...
You can turn off the backlight for an LCD and rely on it being reflective, but the contrast is very poor since at least half the light is blocked.

In this application I see the use of e-ink as being:

- Maybe more readable if you're really fussy.

- Lowers overall power use.

The prior is super weak, LCDs do fine as long as they're not in direct sun.

The second is a good reason, but not a very compelling one in terms of economics yet.

The place these make sense is battery powered devices. If it's plugged in it is a gimmick or someone really dedicated to energy efficiency.
Great visualization and approach with compressing the tile data. Do you have a comparison of how much smaller the payload ends up being compared to simply sending PNG files?

I use PNGs to encode elevation data in my 3D mapping library (https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/) and this does a pretty good job of compressing the data, for example in the ocean the PNG files are also very small as the image is mostly black. Different use case I now as your data is much more sparse, but I wonder how close the PNG compression would be compared to your approach.
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Or choose any other OS? Are you living in a fantasy world with more than two OSs? It’s not goddamn hair shampoo..
Wow they've blocked the Bureau of Meteorology page, no more weather warnings on fb. All of ABC too (our BBC equivalent), though they were not required to pay for ABC content, so it seems pretty bitchy.
300k wireless users affected by Winter Storm Uri [pdf]
It's not bright enough.

- Sunlight - 10,000 to 120,000 lux

- Light Therapy lamp (from 4 inches away) - 10,000 lux

- 60W Philips Hue light bulb (800 lumens, 120deg beam angle, 4in away) - ~25,000 lux

- 60W bulb (same specs, but 5ft away) - ~100lux

Those numbers for the 60W light bulb are also optimistic, and will go down if you put it in a light fixture that doesn't redirect all of the light into a 120deg beam (like a regular standing lamp).

So, either place it ~4"+ from your face, get multiple, or find a brighter 100W+ smart bulb.

Additional anecdata - I've used the Philips sunrise alarm clock before (apparently 300lux), and it tends not to wake me up either.

In other news, if anyone has a 100W+ white color temp changing smart bulb to recommend, I'm all ears.
It was Long Beach, not San Diego, and the situation is, as you say, not that simple. Kroger has talked about closing those two "underperforming" stores many times before. Kroger is a huge company that had record sales (over $100B) and record profits last year, so it seems unlikely they couldn't afford to absorb a temporary (the ordinance limited the extra pay to 120 days) rise in labor cost of 20-28% at two stores. More likely, Kroger is taking the opportunity to close two long-struggling stores while -- most importantly -- setting an example, i.e., sending a message to other jurisdictions which might entertain the idea of mandating higher wages that Kroger is perfectly willing to punish workers and customers if it comes to that. (Also, the stores didn't close immediately, they're scheduled to close April 17.)
In Adam Curtis' newest documentary series, called "Can't Get You Outta My Mind", he looks to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to identify two competing ideologies: the geopolitics of money, and nationalism. The Serbs and the Russian nationalists failed and were pulled into the orbit of the oligarchs into the globalized world of Big Money. In the absence of fascism and communism, it seems countries can only swing on the pendulum between "nationalism" and "globalism".
This is far less true than you make it seem, I think. I can think of executives who are very clear decision makers in particular contexts.

But for most engineers, most of the time, you're working well below the level of those executives, and especially if you're engaging with shared infrastructure, the executive who is the final decision maker is Sundar.

For example, I am involved in an issue where 3 ICs whose levels are between 4 and 6 (really this is a simplification), are engaged in dealing with solving a problem. These three ICs are in 3 different PAs, reporting indirectly to 3 different SVPs, who join up at Sundar. It isn't worth it to have the CEO spend time refereeing this decision.

Ultimately this was resolved at the director level, by consensus building, because it would reflect badly on every one of those directors if they failed to resolve it and had to escalate to SVPs or CEOs about something that is, on the company scale, trivial (to be clear this is still a thing that is multiple engineer-years of work, but it's still Google-trivial).

I expect the same is true at Amazon or Apple. Cook and Bezos aren't making every decision. VPs and Directors deal with small potatoes, and most things are small potatoes. The difference may be organizationally that those companies are more siloed and so leaves from different trees interact less often. But this friction also is often intentional and has value (SRE explicitly not reporting up through normal product eng ladders, for example).
> It's depressing that even on hackernews where you expect people want to tinker and have control over their machines there's a probably a majority who are happy with the situation

I am happy with the situation for one simple reason: it just works. I hve to many things to deal with and tinker with elsewhere. I honestly don't want to tinker with my phone.
I'm not aware of any documented control of Elvis by the mafia. Are you perhaps confusing the "Memphis Mafia" nickname of his entourage with the actual mafia?
Call me paranoid/cynical but maybe they are planning on a future system were they use the profile they have on you to calculate your preferences and buying power and update the signs on the fly when you're coming up to them.

Or maybe they are already doing that ... I said to call me paranoid.
How would you craft legislation that force Google and Facebook to do business with you under terms that you dictate? Ultimately how can you prevent said companies from pulling out of your country entirely if that's the better option for them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster (from 1990)
I believe this is the NAO report & press release referred to. It doesn't say what the grandparent thinks it does.

https://www.nao.org.uk/report/government-procurement-during-...

https://www.nao.org.uk/press-release/investigation-into-gove...
40 million seems way, way too high for active towers. i doubt north texas area has 200,000 active cell towers.
If it interests you - stated at the bottom of the press release, they appear to be presenting a conference accepted paper on this.

Looking at the ISSCC program, I presume this is what they're talking about: "A 20nm 6GB Function-In-Memory DRAM, Based on HBM2 with a 1.2TFLOPS Programmable Computing Unit Using Bank-Level Parallelism, for Machine Learning Applications" [1]. I suspect this is where there will be a deep dive into the gory technical details of the architecture and performance. It's tomorrow so it won't be a long wait.

[1] https://submissions2.mirasmart.com/ISSCC2021/PDF/ISSCC2021Ad... (p 38)
I love how this is implemented on top of existing Elixir utilities: just some macros and fancy AST transforms. The fact that you can do all this with just a library and not any sort of super low-level language pragma speaks to the elegance of Elixir's core design.

I think my dream job would be something like what José Valim does: designing a gorgeous, performant language that delights developers. Some day…
You're also forgetting the ability for stores to execute "surge" pricing.

I'm not a fan of it, but that will certainly recoup that cost much faster.
Thanks for asking! There are definitely a lot of products converging on this space. To address the safety features specifically our clients have found using surveys/spreadsheets don't scale past 15-20 employees coming into office, especially for busy workplace management teams. With regulations like AB 685 the reporting requirement is a 24-hour window, so if you're trying to contact trace hundreds of employees over a couple weeks, or tracking your occupancy data, this could take hours out of someone's day. Not to mention having to constantly remind and send out manual notifications for employees to take their surveys. With our system this is automated and you can have a report in seconds. Longer term we feel the hybrid work features like desk booking and office usage data offer real value. This is hard to accomplish without scheduling tools.
I've had two attempts to post a list and each time it was deemed too long even on the second heavy edit (perhaps I'm being penalized for too many long posts lately as this one had a considerably shorter byte count than others I've posted successfully).

Anyway, it was mostly a reedited rehash of stuff that I've posted previously with a few new additions (rehashing it saved considerable time over starting from scratch). By cutting it even further it won't serve its purpose. When I've a moment I'll restructure and re-post it.
I think it reduces to the chains will always have to be reconciled because you would otherwise open yourself up to N% attacks where N is whatever threshold you decided was "safe.'
And those they don't recommend are clearly noted as unverified and possibly containing malware. It's almost like they WANT to protect users....
> That stuff should be the norm.

Really? I'd rather you just paid me more, so I can use the money how I'd like, instead of coddling me with loads of benefits.

And then there's this: companies don't provide all this stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. They provide it because it means they can squeeze more out of you. Again, I might be able to get on board with that if it's a company I really want to work for, but I'd still rather they just pay me more instead.
Using more vertical space means I need a narrower living space which means cities can be more compact.

So I don’t think it would qualify.
In my eyes it's usually like competing witch hunts / trials with modern legal system :)
Way too often people are not interested in justice but revenge, even with the facts out there the will to destroy someone you don't is bigger than reason.
The Pianist is great, I would recommend watching it (more or less legally if you have reservations about giving money to some people). Also, a film is not only its director. There are many, many other people involved. I am sure some of them are arseholes and some of them are good people, but the end result stands on its own merit.
It's insulting to real journalists to call the people at media corporations that just browse social media all day and copy stories as "journalists." They are just part of a content mill creating medium that can be attached to advertisments.
Or a phone. Do either of these exist yet as single display devices? I've only seen half measures with a regular LCD plus an e-ink add on that was very much a gimmick.

I would be so thrilled for an e-ink phone to get rid of my current one with. I don't play movies, the refresh rate doesn't need to be great, it does need to be color, and if the battery lasts a week again... well worth it.
The big difference between MSFT and AAPL is that MSFT licensed their software to integrators. MSFT didn't have the option to simply stop selling to those integrators and go it alone.

AAPL can relatively (compared to MSFT back in the day) easily decide to be the sole retailer of their own hardware and software stack, and cease to sell their phones through carriers.

AAPL already offers direct financing solutions, and trade in solutions, through their own retail channels. SIM-only plans tend to be cheaper as the carriers can no longer hide behind hardware costs to obfuscate their plans.

Who loses in this equation? AAPL might, through reduced sales. The carriers might, through reduced margins. Is either of those things bad to the consumer?

Doesn't AAPL already sell carrier plans as part of their iPhone retail experience?

When did MSFT sell hardware as part of their software licensing retail experience in the 90s?
> Words leave nothing to the imagination.

If only. Differing interpretations of words are one of the dominant sources of political discord in the US. The things words leave to the imagination are killing people.
I guess everyone experiences it differently, but in my "bubble" most people are severely disillusioned with any utopian ideologies or concepts.
A dystopian future of some cyberpunk flavour seems inevitable.
Of course this is a very biased view and probably not reflective of reality at all.
Umm, I tinker on the raspberry pi 4 my son and I share. We tinker on our gaming PCs. We also tinker on our retro electronics (game consoles, computers and receivers).

I don’t have any urge to tinker with my phone, iPad or MacBook’s hardware- and that’s why I have them. We do build software via Xcode & Unity, which is an amazing experience, but I’m ok with the hardware being mostly static.

This whole “modern computers should be hackable like DOS machines of the late 80s” is absurd. By that logic we should never have accepted systems on a chip. The only criticism is that I strongly think these devices should have replaceable batteries, even at the cost of thinness.
What was the potential sequence of events that could have resulted in the rioters seizing control of the government? Even if this handful of unarmed citizens had somehow subdued the numerous armed guards protecting the Senate, the most they could achieve would be a hostage situation.

It was a protest that became a riot which temporarily disrupted a legislative assembly. At worst you could argue it was a protest that crossed the line into terrorism. And possibly some of the protestors thought someone else was going to stage a coup, but that did not happen.
That's, what, about 4-up letter pages? Yeah, I can see that being useful.

Can't get to the page; I assume the price is ridiculous though.
Wiretap laws are complex. It would only violate two party consent wiretap laws, many places only have one party consent. If it is a two party consent wiretap law, and the conversation is happening in public, then there's a chance that the 'expectation of privacy' is not there since it's a public conversation, which would put this outside the scope of wiretap laws.

Think of it this way: it's not a wiretap to record a public speaker.
I was thinking along the lines that someone will come along and eat their lunch once patents expire so they won't be able to reap the benefits of scaling.

To me, it would make sense to invent in capturing a larger market if e-ink believed that they could compete at scale.
Years later, same story lol

How depressing.
It is disastrously to Care when you are surrounded by an army that doesn’t.
So you don’t actually have an app you want to publish?

As for the Cydia store, that allows apps to to run on jailbroken phones, I.e. with security protections removed.

It should be obvious why users want to buy a platform that is as secure as Apple can make it.
I’ll get enough sleep when I have control over my life and my time, so maybe when and if I retire.
Well, I saw somebody illustrate the point very with this comparison "How can you argue somebody should lose their job and not be forgiven for a bad word they said 10 years ago, but at the same time argue criminals who robbed somebody should get forgiven and get probation in less time?"
I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but they were not successful.
The documentary in part inspired my comment, it was (as most of his stuff) very worthwhile to watch!
> Don't you need some kind of established relationship to go for arbitration?

Broadly speaking, I believe so. But FINRA arbitration is odd. I wouldn't be surprised if this individual could claim he thought DeepFuckingValue was giving him advice over Reddit to gain standing. From there, it's in the system.
You've just skipped over the early days of Google where they relied primarily on PageRank and bad actors manipulated it to death.

It's trivial to generate webs of fake, inter-related content and use that specifically to feed incoming links to valuable pages. Or to comment-spam websites so aggressively it ruins them. Or all of the secret deals between high-ranking sites to feed links even though the sites weren't related. There are countless examples of black-hat techniques to break PageRank.

I am sorry but you simply can't build a sustainable search engine without deeply understanding the user intent and the meaning behind the indexed pages.
> Sure it is - because Apps are curated, you can charge more for them.

That is not a sure thing. Having a wealthier customer base could be as much or even bigger a reason for the higher revenue. And curated apps still have to compete with each other.

> If there are free alternatives available everywhere, people will be less likely to pay.

If this were really the case, it would actually be an argument for increased competition because it would be better for the consumers. However, I do not think that it is true because almost 93% of apps in the App Store are already free.[1] So the 100% revenue difference probably would not disappear. And free apps would have to follow Apple's privacy rules, as they do now.

> So the App Store is a net benefit - what, exactly, is the problem?

Of course it is a net benefit. Even if overall fees were 99%, it would still be a net benefit to both consumers and developers because retaining 1% is still better than nothing for developers, and having a software repository is very valuable for users. No-one is suggesting shutting down the App Store. What is being suggested is for Apple to allow other firms to compete against it, because they control almost two-thirds of the market by revenue and can dictate the terms to the participants.

> There is no demonstrable harm.

That is for Epic to prove. They would try to demonstrate that they suffered harm after violating App Store terms by offering a competing payment method, and that it is anti-competitive for Apple to eject Epic's app, given its market position. Regulators would also have their own methods of determining whether harm occurred.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1020996/distribution-of-...
That caught my eye too, super exciting. Seems like this is where most of the detailed design discussion is taking place: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/45689
Topher Brennan (who before marriage blogged as Topher Hallquist) is probably not a liar.
I’m glad you think highly of your poetic abilities, but I have no desire to engage in that pointless argument.

Edit: and yes.. uh comment deleted as charged, since you had edited after I replied.
It's fascinating to me that they did this with the pistol, but :knife:, :bomb:, :dagger:, :crossed_swords:, :bow_and_arrow:, et al all look as threatening as ever.
Why Is Architecture and Building So Different in Europe?
In terms of raw salary, I think the current mess is more a result of the government's own "pay cap" crusade over the last decade—I haven't known anyone really be against the idea that public sector salaries should at least have kept pace with inflation, and I feel like there wasn't really any call for the dirty tactics the government has brought to negotiation over the past few years.

But you're probably right that public visibility has spoiled other perks that are otherwise part of a functioning job—travel to conferences, overnight stays, on-site food outlets; it feels like they've all been cut from fear that they could end up as a bile-filled column in the Mail.

As an aside, I've gladly said to many people that as an IT boffin, nurses should be paid more than me!
Few thing is not a tradeoff, but allowing sideloading is not one. (Or it is, to apple’s profits)
Hmm, I see. On Linux, at least on Arch Linux using that version of su it does work.

Someone said "sudo -u user /usr/local/bin/bash" works on FreeBSD. Does that work at least? Of course change the user and potentially the path to bash if you have it installed elsewhere.
Wait, why would having a non-Apple store being allowed in iOS affect you? If people want to install non-Apple approved apps from their own devices, it doesn't imply you have to do the same.
For those curious, here's part 1/6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME
The other parts keep getting kicked off YouTube for copyright yadda yadda, but they can be found.
Microsoft was a supplier accused of abusing its market share to disadvantage other suppliers. They did not get prosecuted for being popular.

Apple is not a supplier. They only sell directly to consumers. They don’t even try to make their app store available on competing phones, even if it is technically possible.
Well at least they tried.
Why does it need to be "kill"? Why not "improve the newsletters"?

All email killers failed to kill email.
> Curator

No drugs, no porn, nothing offensive. Maybe if Apple stopped being such a moral busy body people this would be less of an issue.
The current x86 releases are in a rather raw state, e.g. you still have to cross compile x86 on an Itanium system.

Based on some claims I have seen elsewhere, they plan to release the V9.1 to non-commercial customers, which is meant to happen some time before the end of H1 of this year.
> Most of the work done by some "journalists" in 2021 is regurgitating what they see on social media.

There is a sharp schism between subscription journalism and ad-supported content. For the most part, the former are doing investigatory work. For the most part, the latter are not.
Any serious attempt at war today will demolish entire countries in months.
It could be about self-determination.