skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the perspective of the law, their duopoly implies competition. They do not have the durable market power of, say, American Sugar.

Google very craftily, allows anyone to manufacture hardware for their Android OS. Not only that, they allow anyone to change their OS in anyway they see fit. The fact that most people don't is immaterial to the courts.

Apple has an even more unassailable defense against the durability of their power. ie - their year over year market share graphs. The downward trend in market share would fly in the face of any assertion that they have durable market power.

The only real way forward is to forget the old legal facilities of "monopoly" and "trust", and to make new laws. The old laws simply don't fit the time. How is any attorney to be expected to argue durability of a company with declining market share in any legally sensible fashion? If we're serious about going after companies like Apple, we need new tools.
Hey Tommy, I DMed you but figured I would ask here too...what service do you use for VA?
> It's just a giant subsidy

If it is redistributing wealth, it's socialist. Taking taxpayer money from person A and paying it out as a subsidy (even if laundered through a private company) to benefit person B is socialism.

Anytime you are redistributing wealth under the threat of the government's right to licit first use of force, you're engaging in socialism.
Often that becomes a sticking point for a ShowHN because landing pages that only harvest email addresses is so common.

Often the low volume of HN generated traffic makes creating a temporary default account worth making so that people can see the work.

Because the landing page is so sparse, there is not a clearly positive value proposition.

Email in exchange for learning more is one thing.

Email in exchange for learning what it is might be another.
> (I've even considered moving over to LuaTeX because it would allow more automation, but I'd need a pretty longish period of reimplementation that I don't see becoming available soon.)

Good thing you didn't bother, because it's absolutely not worth it. I chose LuaTeX initially precisely because it seemed more convenient to write commands in Lua than in plain LaTeX, but it turned into a total nightmare. Issues crop up as soon as you try to do something with text that embeds LaTeX macros, and the errors you get are even more byzantine than the ones you'd get by writing "normal" LaTeX code.

IMHO the very idea of embedding an external language into LaTeX is pointless, for the simple reason that LaTeX isn't markup, but code, and that it's pretty much impossible to parse it into a representation that makes sense and could be manipulated like, say, the HTML DOM. The only sane way to automate things is to write your documents in some language or markup that can be compiled to LaTeX, or to use a template engine.
"Noam Chomsky has a good quote about this."

Quoting Noam Chomsky's non-linguistical work is a sure marker of being on the wrong side of the argument.
Indeed, it includes things like the Drizzle algorithm that has been used by Hubble space telescope astronomers for a while: https://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/combination/drizzle.ht...
Despite high-profile failures, government tech is slowly improving
Why is scarcity a value add? The difficulty and costs associated with getting money into and out of the ecosystem have to offset the scarcity value add. I'm still not convinced that scarcity is valuable. It surely benefits the people who were early adopters but what is the value to new investors? Not to mention how incredibly inefficient all of this is.
I just bought a camera that does it, so it definitely exists.

https://chriseyrewalker.com/the-hi-res-mode-of-the-olympus-o...
I tried to find brown on the slider to see what you’re talking about. Took me ages. Turns out you have to go REALLY red in order to find brown.
Interesting I was under the impression you couldn’t. Does Binance have a USDT/USD trading pair? If not, what are the mechanics of trading from USDT to fiat?
Nicotine is not the main cause of tobacco addiction: it is attributable to MAO inhibitors created pyrolytically during the roasting and burning of plant material.

The same goes for coffee and coffee substitutes with respect to caffeine.
Browser vendors have teams of experienced and professional security engineers several orders of magnitude larger than the entire Bitwarden organization. They're also bound by US law.
Vite and Rust WebAssembly
Out of all your replies this one hurts the most. I did not post it troll or cause flamewars, but because I thought it was a novel and while not self-evidently beneficial, could at least plausibly work. I wanted to have a serious discussion of pros and cons. And I think that I, sasha and kjeetgill had a productive and curious conversation.
Yours, because the copyright of a photocopy of a book remains with the author.

No, because I don't have any legal relationship with street camera operators. This would not be a panacea for all privacy issues, it would specifically solve ones related to zero-touch trackers.

No, because neither the government nor unencumbered entities can profit by selling works that I own the copyright to, nor can they profit from selling derived works.
They can still do this if the old code base is under a permissive license, since permissive licenses like BSD, Apache and MIT are compatible with proprietary licenses.
That's awful. I'm sorry for you and your family.

"He's suffered from seizures for the last few years, although those normally follow infections and high temperatures"

A vaccine will certainly cause the body to fight the perceived infection, including with high temperatures for some people. It's possible given his history those vaccine side effects should have been considered?
“Who's the best engineer you've worked with?”
The problem with these licenses is that they're not open source and they're pretending to be. I doubt you could start a new project and get adoption if you start with these licenses.

There were problems with some OS projects keeping security / auth stuff out of the main project so that it could be used to drive commercial sales.

You can compete on hosting (very hard), support, customization, advanced / narrow features. But it needs to be in alignment with the users / contributors.
Nearly 60% of Global App Store Downloads Now Come from Search
Brainwashed capitalism reasoning :D

(America at least) conditioned to think market caps and stock markets and GDP are the only meaningful metric.
> Stephenson blithely writes as if this is true.

Forgive me, but this sounds like a criticism — is it? Because last I checked that novel was fiction, and that is what good authors do. It’s not like I’d criticise Diane Duane for writing Trek books as if Vulcans were real; if anything its kinda weird when shows like Trek break the fourth wall, which they avoided even in the two episodes which used the “the show is a fiction invented by one of the characters” trope.
> my goodness, scroll a little

That's an anti-solution. Scrolling is bad for your brain and reduces comprehension - it makes it harder for your brain to figure out what's going on.

There's a continuum between "everything on the screen is 6pt text with no spacing" and gigantic mobile-UI buttons on a desktop environment - and modern webdev errs far too close to the latter.

> That spacing is good [...] accessibility.

Big buttons with small text and no borders - which are part of the design trend - are significantly worse for accessibility.

> That spacing is good for usability

Spacing in general? Yes. The ridiculous amounts of spacing that modern webdev encourages? Absolutely not. There are diminishing returns, and modern webdev goes from "reasonable" into "unreasonable" territory.

> Those larger action targets and the space between them are not only good for us with vision impairment but for people whose only computing device is a phone.

My argument had to do with desktop platforms. You can build websites that are usable on phones while being efficient on desktops, either by building two separate sites, or through responsive design - but modern webdev doesn't, instead choosing to build desktop sites that have all of the aforementioned problems for no good technical reason.
What is it that you propose? Have you informed yourself about the effects of your proposal and considered alternatives?
Why buy a 10 year bond today when 24 hours from now its value will drop significantly?
It will be different this time!!(says the media) <- no it won't.

I like to base my findings on history and previous pandemics and how they were dealt with. The swine flu of 1918-1919[1] which was more deadly(IFR rate 2% [2]) than covid-19(IFR rate 1.15% [3]) did in fact go away, it was the last major pandemic the world has endured and once herd immunity is reached the virus will no longer have any "tinder" to burn through as either the vaccine or catching the virus to get antibodies will stop the virus in its tracks.

But what about mutations? coronaviruses mutate more slowly compared to the flu virus[4], and sequencing and testing is already underway for vaccines for the new variants[5].

Lastly the thing no one is really talking about is people die every year during flu season. The really old, the really sick etc, so I suspect that a good amount of deaths with covid are non-preventable and would have happened anyways due to the flu, which by the way is pretty much non-existent this year[6] <- with that link look at one year ago and you will see a stark change in the activity of the flu, its incredible as every state has the lowest activity the CDC measures.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoratio...
[2] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
[3] - https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201030/covid-19-infection-...
[4] - https://rtmagazine.com/disorders-diseases/infectious-disease...
[5] - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new-sars-cov-2-var...
[6] - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#ILIActivityMap
Well, because people think it is which comes down to psychology, culture etc.

It seems quite time honoured though. People probably thought an original cave painting was cooler than a copy of it.
As a layman, I'd imagine this is a death knell for the vaccine in the US, even if it eventually gets EUA, since there are plenty of alternatives without this disclaimer. That's of course more a read on the marketing/PR aspects of this rather than any significant chance of adverse effects.

Outside, where the mRNA vaccines are in short supply, I wonder how this will change things. Perhaps we'll see a rapid shift towards J&J, since the price differential is not huge (~2-3x) and there may be a significant number of unused doses in the US.
Wow that is in fact exactly it. I'm actually quite impressed they're able to shift the sensor array by exactly one pixel (or even close to) since that's on the order of microns.
Those are OS updates, not appolication updates.
Yup. See Digg.
I can answer for the Obsidian Authenticator, I've always loved gems and minerals and I thought the name was cool!
as simple as that :)
I have wondered about one of the premises of that book, the lack of animals that could be domesticated in the Americas, it may have been that the opportunity to domesticate them was lost after a certain amount of time passed and they went extinct due to hunting or climate changes.

Recently there has been found in Brazil huge amounts of rock art from prehistoric Ice age civilization, that showed that they drew pictures of ice age horses and a now extinct camelid species called a paleolama.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chap...
I think this vaccine and vaccines in general are overwhelmingly safe, but has this not been a slightly different situation?

Admittedly, I don't know much about vaccine safety, but isn't it unusual to have a vaccine rolled out to millions of otherwise healthy people without any long-term studies into its safety? I understand we create new flu vaccines yearly, but my understanding is that's a slight variant of previous flu vaccines which have been proven to be safe over long periods of time – and it's only rolled out to vulnerable people who want it, not everyone under threat of not being able to travel, etc.

I think we probably should have some level of caution when taking any new drug or vaccine – especially one that is going to be rolled out to millions of people. How many times would we need to run this experiment before a 'safe' vaccine does actually cause blood clots or some similar side effect? Or are side effects from vaccines basically impossible? (I genuinely don't know).

For some context, I'm saying this as someone who now suffers from permanent side effects after taking a medication that was once deemed safe and without risk of permanent side effects so unfortunately its hard for me not to be a little hesitant.
Thirty Thousand Fake Ballots Found in Georgia – Will Turn 32 Electoral Votes
> Open source-licensed projects with a non-profit home, *neutral trademark ownership*, and multiple significant contributors are less likely to face pressures to relicense.

What does "neutral trademark ownership" mean?
Nice article. rsync.net is one part of my personal computing setup that I never even think twice about. It's simple and it works, and that clearly applies to the infrastructure too. I use ZFS locally and it has made managing my own data strangely pleasing, and it's nice to have the same system on my off-site storage too.

On the laptop-front, I find myself drifting towards a similar setup to John. I have a hefty workstation laptop but the battery life is dire and it weighs a ton, so I pretty much just run it as a headless machine next to my server now. I'm planning on picking up a Pinebook Pro as an "outdoors" machine to just remote in. I also find myself extremely unwilling to arse about swapping multiple machines on my monitors so being able to keep my work machine separate and secure but operate it from my desktop is a nice compromise.
“Herd immunity is only relevant if we have a transmission-blocking vaccine. If we don’t, then the only way to get herd immunity in the population is to give everyone the vaccine,” says Shweta Bansal, a mathematical biologist at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Does... Not... Compute. She is contradicting herself in the very next sentence.

Herd immunity is only possible with a transmission blocking vaccine. This makes sense, as once you’re vaccinated, you are unable to transmit the virus to someone else.

With that first statement, herd immunity is now not relevant, and therefore is not possible, so why mention it as a possibility?

It’s not possible, but we’re just going to vaccinate everyone anyways. Is she benefiting financially from this or something? I don’t understand.

Until we have transmission blocking vaccines, the concept of herd immunity is irrelevant. That goes not just for COVID-19, but for every other vaccination campaign as well. Large scale vaccination campaigns likely decrease transmission, but it doesn’t guarantee the end of any outbreak.
I don't have any hobbies and it's ok, I think.
Authy requires a phone number, which you may or may not want to give out, but it also lets that phone number restore backups, so it’s vulnerable to SIM swaps.

Also it’s ugly and super high latency to navigate, but that’s just my opinion.
I'm printing this out and framing it
> We ended up with two weird-ass food-disinterested anxious dogs that pee and poop indoors.

Ouch.
Precisely because of that the capitalism we have is extremely flawed and easy to game for people with money and prevents small guy from making his or hers life better in a substantial way. There are exceptions of course, but generally speaking if you have small or medium company good chunk of your profits will be eaten by all sort of taxes that big corporations don't pay, so it doesn't matter how hard you are going to work you won't go beyond certain point unless you start sharing your company with VC or risk taking bank loans. Probably that's why it has not happened because it would disrupt the cushy life ultra-rich have. At this point we really need a change and this has to stop!
Only the Android dev associate program is related to software engineering. I don't think anybody going into this program has expectations of acing a technical interview at Google with their Coursera certificate of completion.

But it might be attractive to people that are interested in exploring the area without the overhead of a full CS curriculum.
COVID infections can give way to opportunistic bacterial pneumonia infections, which can have a 20% - 37% mortality rate[1]. Many pneumonia-causing strains of bacteria are antibiotic resistant[2], and being on a ventilator raises the risks of developing severe pneumonia[2]. Ventilator-associated pneumonia is more likely to be caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria[2].

[1] https://www.medscape.com/answers/300157-19086/what-are-the-a...

[2] https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resource...
Slightly off topic, I always thought named CSS colors are generally ignored (in favour of 'rgba' / '#hex').

Are named CSS colors seeing any practical use?
> AstraZeneca supplies Europe with vaccine from several plants, however, and EMA could not say whether all of the batches involved came from the same facility.

Is there an answer to this yet? The batch that a particular person's dose came from is carefully documented (or at least should be - it is in the USA).
Having deployed such code in the past, I have some very unhappy memories of list comprehensions with a bunch of single letter variables.

Nothing like tracking a bug to 1 line and finding out the line does 12 different things.
the key point i see is exclude competitor, something it does not look like they are actively doing..

The problem is that making something new in the mobile OS market at this points is borderline impossible for anyone that is not already huge with virtually unlimited money supply..

to start you will need to make an OS on par on UX, usability and resources with iOS and Android that had more then a decade of interactions to reach where they are..

After that if you do not want to face same the problem that everyone else that tried faced, no apps because no users and no users because no apps, you will also need make apps for the main third-parties that everyone want as well or convince them to do it for your new system..

All of that just to get started.. it is basically impossible at this point in time..

surely it could happen but it is more likely that someone that has the resources to go for an android-based device then to start something new..
i could get cloud storage from Microsft at ~1/20 of the cost. why would i use rsync.net?
I actually mentioned the movie `White` Tiger, and a `liberal` Indian-American woman, but you're right, I don't agree with that response.
You might be able to get the city to add some metal to shade the light coming into your room. I don't know about the US, but here in Germany it took me one call to the city office and two weeks of waiting.
I use ShellCheck, its a great linting tool. All the vim linting frontends support it.
To get more specific for those who may not be as familiar with the nuances of JS: JS can start parallel threads, it just - importantly - cannot share memory between them (instead it must pass messages, copying data at boundaries). This eliminates a large number of benefits and usecases that tend to be associated with "multithreaded programming", but saying JS "isn't multi-threaded" isn't quite true.
YC's Sam Altman Teams Up with Michael Klein to Launch SPAC
Trojanized Xcode project targeting Apple developers found in the wild
Genius stuff. Almost Plan9-like in spirit.
Quickly test marketing for your sweet info product
If you want to run this yourself, you can do so with simh. Wrote about it in 2015: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Running_TSS_8_on_the_DEC_PiDP-... - a lot of fun , playing around with the PiDP/8
Pentax did it with the K70 back in 2016.
Very cool! While looking for more information on creating holograms I found this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTB2ryoWIFU (from The Thought Emporium) on making holograms using the LitiHolo film, which looks really fun too, especially the RGB hologram.
If there are really 1063 I would think conservationists could know about almost every one individually. That's smaller than the high school I went to. I know they are spread out over a wide area in a dense jungle but I think it would be possible.
It's not much of a moat. The Data Analytics certificate has R and Tableau on the syllabus. Google Data Studio is their in-house solution and it's not being used.

Same goes for the UX Design course, which uses Figma and Adobe XD. Google doesn't have their own offering in this area however.
Promiscuous America: Smart, Secular, and Somewhat Less Happy
My council are also started turning off their lights during the night. I understand it but I hate it. I feel sorry for the dude across the street that now comes home from work in the dark. Personally I feel a lot less secure now staring out in the darkness with a lot of houses and people nearby but we can't see them. I think in more suburban and rural setting this might make sense, but this is still in the town with many people so it makes little sense to me.

I think partially the problem is people(us) have designed their lighting and safety around the street lights being on, and now they are not it is an issue. I have lived in other countries where the norm is for houses to have subtle outside lights that are permanently on at night. But around here they do not and people are more paranoid so all the terraced houses instead have over-active motion sensors with massive flood lights. That are now very noticeable when a poor late night clubber/shift worker/early morning dog walker/baker etc walks by...
This is wrong. Nicotine alone is less addictive than the nicotine-MAOI combination, but it is still extremely addictive. I started with vaping.
This is a false dichotomy. Nobody is claiming that mindlessly clicking "update" guarantees safety.

I run a private fork of the bitwarden client, anyway. Their stock one partially trusts the iteration count of the PBKDF provided by the server, and can be tricked into sending a low-iteration hash of the master password.
Most modern mirrorless cameras have such hardware (usually denoted "in-body image stabilization"). The "repurposing" of it to acquire multiple captures at various slight offsets and combine them intelligently is maybe a bit more recent, but still pretty common at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_stabilization#Sensor-shi...

https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/support/ilc/psms/ilce7r...

https://www.nikonimgsupport.com/na/NSG_article?articleNo=000...

https://www.canon.co.uk/pro/stories/8-stops-image-stabilizat...
SAR is similar but not the same since there you're super-resolving in time rather than space. Also in that instance it's just conventional MISR since you're not driving the imaging system (more information is being passively collected as the targets passes).
Let's see the description for traefik:

The simplest, most comprehensive cloud-native stack to help enterprises manage their entire network across data centers, on-premises servers and public clouds all the way out to the edge.

Sounds ideal for a personal blog! /s
It would be useful to see this tool used for other SaaS.

Want to manage a (1) 10-50 person (2) construction firm in (3) the US, should you use Basecamp, Asana or Wrike?

You have a (1) 50-100 person (2) Tech firm should you use docusign or hello for document management?

And if you already have and are committed to Quickbooks, does it change any of the answers above?
WebAssembly SIMD to be Included in Chrome 91
> many countries

Most developed countries have made this workable. The failure of US higher ed to make itself affordable or accessible does not preclude the value of higher education. The fact that private companies see this as an opportunity for market disruption is bleak at best and dystopian at worst.