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This article seems prompted by:

> Apple finally acknowledged the name "Progressive Web App" and the platform as an alternative to the App Store. It's not how we all were expecting this to happen, but at least it's a start. No one from the WebKit and Safari teams is talking about PWAs; Apple's lawyers defined PWAs and their compatibility on iOS and iPadOS as evidence against App Store monopoly to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

https://firt.dev/ios-14.5/#progressive-web-apps-on-ios-14.5 - linked to from the third "fact" listed at the start of the article.

(Or at least, I was thinking that an article such as this one needed to be written when I read the above.)

Presumably, the ACCC and similar bodies around the world will be looking for evidence as to whether this claim is true. While it's generally known among front-end developers that Safari is the reason PWA's on iOS haven't really been feasible for a long time, it wasn't clearly articulated anywhere.

Now the lawyers will have this article to refer to as evidence. Hopefully it will pressure Apple to at least make PWA's more viable on iOS, even if just as an argument for their lawyers.
The radio is a massive battery draw, so you want it to be off as much as possible. The built-in push notification service will batch low priority packets and send them all alongside the next high priority one it receives.
Comments made during Berkshire annual (remote) meeting yesterday.

Interesting take and in line with what he said in the past,

Druckenmiller and Soros on the other hand are bullish
While i haven't seen this particular demo, i've seen others. It is indeed awesome and the way to go.

I just hope effort this time around centralizes around a single os (distro), otherwise the linux desktop situation is going to repeat itself.
A Night at the Garden (2018)
This is a pretty nice region, they'll have lots of competition.

If you are coming from far, you'll likely prefer to spend your time in Porto and Aveiro.

I guess they'll have more local visitors. If I were in Alquerubim I'd definitely go there on the weekend.
This needs to be brought to an end. The energy usage of Bitcoin has been discussed ad nauseum, and I think we've all concluded that it serves no useful purpose.

The current banking system works perfectly well, and there is no need for an alternative in which users have complete control over their money. It's too dangerous.
sorry with all respect but Expensiveness is related with how many zeros have the target because you have too loop more.

That is why you waste more energy (more expensive) now than years ago.
As a layperson on the subject, I would say mostly yes (or understood as valid subjects where the definition is slippery) going by the philosophy I've read.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a particularly good resource to add as a search term to subjects you want more info on, as well as the usual suspects (wikipedia etc).
IN Stunning Reversal, NASA Halts $2.9B Contract with SpaceX
> I'll stand behind that being the single biggest reason that PeerTube simply cannot be a platform to rival YouTube.

Well, I would count the greens first and then for rival, a joke. They can never share the love alphabet can share with the tube. You have to give money to take money.
Last Thursdayism
If true, this story convinces me even more that we must develop a superhuman at all costs, to at least overcome the current stupid and abusive societal and environmental formats, but something completely irrational to that cause (called ethics) forces us to tread water in the status quo.
Hard to say, really. It could be organic, but then, it is in the interest of Chia to spread the stories about "hard drive shortage" - like all crypto schemes, their best user base are people who will see an article about cryptocurrency causing a social-wide issue, and read it as an opportunity. The people who see a disaster and their first thought is about how to profit off it.
Disclaimer: I'm a Bitcoiner, which seems to be an unpopular stance here. I'll do my best to explain some of my motivation and answer to your questions.

Q1: Why would people accept these currencies in the first place?
I want to hold Bitcoin because of its monetary policy. It has a fixed, capped supply of 21 million BTC, whereas fiat can be printed at will. This property is what fuels the current hype, and the fact that central banks around the world are inflating money supply as we speak certainly helps the narrative. So for bitcoiners, money saved in fiat is likely to lose buying power over time, but in Bitcoin we see, on average, a steady increase.
Since I see Bitcoin as a superior form of money, I would certainly prefer getting paid in Bitcoin than in fiat.

Q2: Why do people that accept Bitcoin still denominate prices in USD?
Bitcoin is far from being an established currency, and it is still very volatile (though far less than a few years ago). Most of the population are not bitcoiners. The US are denominated in USD. So, until Bitcoin is both more stable and more popular, it is the most convenient to do what we're used to and denominate things in USD.

Q3: Is speculation the primary reason for Bitcoin's rise in popularity?
We're in the middle of a bull run right now, so probably? But if you zoom out and look at the price evolution over 5 years it looks different, and there is a steady growth.

Q4: Do people just want to increase their USD? ("spend 10,000 [...] and then extract 15,000 fiat")
Some do for sure, but I don't see much appeal in exchanging hard money into money with arbitrary monetary policies. Bitcoin tripling in value does not change the initial motivation I had to buy it, so why sell? Of course, if I want to buy something with btc then that amounts to selling some. But my motivation to be in Bitcoin is to protect my time, the most limited resource I have in my life, from inflation, and that does not change with price.
Here is a stream of the corresponding lecture at the European Lisp Symposium 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKHYZOAc_bQ

And here are the slides: https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/static/2020/corallo-...
It's even simpler than that. Who wants to work on changing a UI that they themselves are comfortable with?
It's work with - best case - no benefit in the eyes of the developer. Worse, you likely will break workflows - including your own.
Sexyness doesn't need to factor in at all.

And do note the nice uncanny valley of no change: in order to improve the UI, you need to understand the program well. In order for that to happen, you need to be proficient with it. In which case, you know how to use the UI and are more likely blind to its downsides.
Please never do that. PWA are 99.999% spam. See Firefox’s research on the topic. I hate every time I visit a new site and there’s some dumb pop up on my browser asking me to enable push notifications. Sometimes I miss click and end up having to go through the annoying process of removing them.

Fortunately, Apple cares about its users and won’t enable a feature that is only abused for spam.
Yes - there's clearly an incentive misalignment in setting & communicating realistic mission risks & expectations which is not too surprising given the politics behind how NASA is funded.

What happens over a period of time in any organization if you consistently under-commit & over-deliver is that people stop believing in your "official" under-committed number ("It's just on-paper") and start creating their own informal "realistic" expectations (which are possibly different across stake-holders) and start taking (possibly mis-aligned) decisions based on these. As you may imagine, such situations tend to blow up from time to time.
He forgot: in python you read the code of somebody else and it's familiar.

In lisp, you are learning a new language with every lib because each author think they are a god language designer and that their macro rock. Also they don't need a good doc cause they are obvious. Or good error message cause they never break.

Also the way the author dismiss the number gap of packages available is ignoring the elephant in the room.
Each individual unit needs a chain of ownership history back to where it was produced; and presumably from there at least a date or serial or batch number, the thing a consumer from that company needs to identify correlated issues.

That history must include returns, refurbishments, etc.

If anyone has a problem with a product that arrived at a consumer's house the chain of handling and ownership should exist.

Is the product official?

Did a second party seller buy a product they believe is official and ship it?

Did someone buy something and then return it (and was it really the same something)?

If a bad batch of that product got shipped out, can Amazon recall it without manually sending a human to look in every bin that might have it (and what if there are 500 middle-men selling slightly cosmetically altered versions of the same cheap crap from across the sea)?
It does seem to be the same readers every time.
CalVer
Crypto-mania is back: Crypto vs. Fiat, and why newer isn't always better
Thanks, I didn't know that. I find it very poignant.
I just put on music and write code. I have an excellent personal laptop, but I prefer coding my big desktop.

My key to staying interested is automation of all the things. I mean spending the extra time to finding new ways to perform test automation, automation to keep documentation up to date, adding new lint rules. With better automation in place there are fewer barriers to validating or executing new ideas.
That's crazy. Apple should be split into multiple independent companies and their workers should be given multi million dollar bonuses. Workers should be getting 78% of profits.
The goal isn't to present PCA directly to stakeholders. It is something you do at the start to understand your data. The premise is that it is extremely likely that there are significant batch effects or other statistical correlations in the data that you are probably unaware of at the outset. You should aim to discover these early on. To do this you need to use an unsupervised method because the whole point is you don't what they are.

> you are tasked to find the main drivers of sales on a given city. You run PCA on the data and find two main components on the dataset

Obviously it depends what comes out. But in all likelihood you will see some significant clusterings / divisions in PC1 and PC2, so you will try to interpret what properties of the points are driving those. You can do it in a data driven way (what are the significant coefficients in principal component vectors) or you can often do it in an exploratory way ... are they related to geography, are they related to age demographics, are they seasonal ... you color the data points by different possible explanatory variables to see what group things together. And you will very likely see things jump out (eg: you could find that the main reason a particular month was down in sales was due to a technical problem with the web site and you'll want to put that aside, because it doesn't have any predictive value).
UK based here, well insulated thousands of miles away from the frontiers of climate change civilisation impacts but even so…

1. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/shortage-of-uk-grown-oi...

2. People relocating from land which has failed to sustain a crop in another country

3. Increased frequency of flooding events reaching non-floodplain areas over the past 30 years https://www.jbatrust.org/how-we-help/publications-resources/...

4. A change in which crops are sustainable - farmers do need to adjust as climate changes, but it’s quite hard in practice because the surrounding industry in a given area expects particular crops, it’s economically not viable to step outside the norms in response to weather - chicken and egg situation really

5. Increased mortality, old or young are sensitive to temperature swings, the hottest 10 years on record have happened in the past 20 years in the uk. Deaths go up during heatwaves among the elderly and the young
Eating more protein doesn't take you out of ketosis, that's just a myth; it will just lower the amount of keytones that are being produced. If only are protein or nothing at all and you would still be in ketosis.
People Are Scooping Up Big-Ticket Items for Free by Stooping [video]
> The weight of the 300,000 people

I live down the street from the GG ...

Why would you risk the lives of 300,000 people on a single ancient bridge near salt water? That's insane.
I am European, Amazon does not operate in my country but sometimes I am forced to order things from them that I cannot find locally and every time I look their discoverability looks worse and worse due to the quality of the 3rd party product listings. I used to use the UK Amazon page, now I am forced to use the German one and the last time I tried to order some parts for my 3d printer the majority of the sellers were Chinese shell companies, some of whose results were flat out scams. The delivery time is often a month or more on these results. I am always forced to dig deep into reviews just to see if the seller is reliable. I’ve seen confirmed buys say they received some random plastic kick knacks and a weight in the package instead of what they ordered, etc. I usually look for specific products to buy instead of just browsing for stuff so it’s pretty frustrating to have to deal with it. It makes some sense to me that Amazon be forced to claim some responsibility for barely policing their listings.

It’s not squarely an Amazon phenomena, of course, local e-retailers allowing 3rd party sellers in a similar manner ended up with similar results but it’s kinda frustrating to have to deal with all that as a buyer; it removes a lot of the convenience of buying products online when I have to conduct an investigation just to order what I wanted.
I appreciate your understanding of subtances and their uses as it's part of our bad relationship.

However, drinking a coca tea for invigoration vs doing a line in a night club isn't really comparable.

And that's at the personal use level, when you participate in a shamanic ritual, it's a complete different opportunity to use a plant for benefit. When in Colombia I never saw anyone go to a shamanic ritual wanting just to get high.
It's easier just to order some substance and go to town on that. There's no scarcity premium on out-of-your-mind experiences.

If you try rapé, get back to me and tell me how 'high and enjoyable' it was.
Meson 0.58.0 Released
Saying that Bitcoin blew the market for GPUs reveals that your knowledge is years out of date. Bitcoin is predominately mined on ASICs.

Viagra was originally developed as chest pain medication. Did it utterly fail, simply because a new use-case was unveiled?

Which begs the question, what is the new use case for Bitcoin? Some say digital gold, but only time will tell.
That doesn't make sense. By bringing forth the ADL pyramid, they made the claim that the joke list would be a step towards genocide. They absolutely say that. They did not randomly share that ADL pyramid, they wanted to make the point that the list would lead to genocide.

Otherwise, by your logic, why not just say, "OK, we have the list, let's just all agree not to escalate it to genocide, and we can all carry on with our lives" (which would be ridiculous, because it goes without saying that jokes shouldn't be escalated to genocide)? So it won't lead to genocide, and there is no point in bringing it up.
This is an unlikely scenario. Most vulnerabilities are not in shared libraries. If you don't update your software, either it doesn't matter, or you eventually run into security issues.

Optimizing for the unlikely scenario is not a worthy tradeoff. Focusing on shared libraries can indirectly lead to less security overall, because people run outdated software, because of dependency hell leading people to defer upgrades.
Two things:

1) The GNU utilities have pretty good CLI UI design and there are plenty of us who are perfectly happy with just that and a decent WM like FVWM even on a phone

2) It's not like closed mobile stuff has a great UI either. My favorite example is Apple's camera app. Did you know you can do manual focus with it? It's absolutely impossible to discover but I think it involves a "reverse three finger pinch." I've even had it explained twice to me (and used it) and forgotten how to do it after. I can never remember how when I need it. This garbage makes the TAR UI look like it was designed by an artist.
> I can sue the Post Office for delivering a bad product to me?

Strange question, in USA, the is fact you can sue anyone for anything in a civil suit. It's up to a court to decide whether your case has merit or not.
Sorry, I missed you self plug :D, I read without enough attention. I'll git it a try.
A light tool to visualize and compare the execution time of Scala functions
It's not quite the number of zeros. The hash digest is interpreted as a 256 bit integer, and this has to be below another 256 but integer (the target) for the block to be mined.

So you could get a block hash with "the correct number of zeros", but it would not be below the target.

It's a fair simplification though.
Sure, but again, if these packages were simple binaries that "just work", you wouldn't need your package manager to be strongly coupled to your distribution.
I could hardly disagree more with the premise that activism is anti-fellowship. This seems like a very narrow take on activism.
> Why this isn’t the default I don’t know, [...]

I searched a little and found the following blog, which claims, that there are issues with it, when you do heavy data transfers, for example via many rsyncs at the same time:

https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2010/02/ssh-controlmaster-the...

I did not test it myself. This would seem like an appropriate reason to not make it the default.
Why don’t they install detectors inside all the embassies at risk to prove or disprove this? Why didn’t they do this earlier? I’m pretty sure there are many places that could be contracted to make a detector in a few weeks - this isn’t new technology. This seems really easy to test... so why are we still speculating.
I don't know if the actual design can do this, but theoretically it would be able to right itself by spinning the bottom prop slowly and the top one fast, so the bottom one lifts it up enough that the top one can help it take off enough to attempt another landing.

That's probably something they didn't test for or implement, though.
Another problem with politics-in-the-workplace is it seems like there is only one accepted political dogma. If people were constantly blasted in the face with my politics they would be very annoyed. But I’m supposed to accept their politics unquestionably.

Totally agree with this article - just do your job and get on the soap box during your own time.
I run a Bitcoin lightning node on a small Raspberry Pi, and I use Bitcoin for p2p payments. So from my perspective, Bitcoin is both a great store of value and a good currency.

But since this thread is about an altcoin: Almost no other altcoin enables me to run my own fully-validating node on cheap hardware. And that is 100% a requirement I have since the whole point of crypto to reduce trust to a minimum. I don't know about the details of Chia, but as far as I know most coins with "smart contracts" built into the blockchain require expensive full nodes, so I personally do not see much appeal.
If you’re using Go, you can use rand.Perm (https://golang.org/pkg/math/rand/#Perm), which uses a Fisher-Yates shuffle under the hood.
But that's fine, no? I mean, it's a pretty common workflow where the people close to the science part of something write a prototype in their language/ecosystem of choice, and then the engineering side is in charge of taking the prototype implementation and making it performant enough for production use. Finding people who know both, data science, and low level programming languages well enough to be able to implement data science applications directly for production is pretty hard, I'm sure.

In either case, I much prefer prototypes in Python than, say, Matlab. To speed things up I once rewrote an internal Scipy function to a version that allowed me to use it in vectorized code on my end. If the prototype is in Matlab, the optimization and integration possibilities are much more limited due to licensing, toolboxes, and the closed ecosystem in general.
vscode doesn't even support multiple monitors, it's far behind in many areas.
Shaun Ellis seems to communicate wih wolf alright. Also i believe quite a few people in the world knows how to express the "this territory is claimed, don't come around here" howl message.

national geographic about him : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eerUnxonS-I
You are describing a real world scenario of drinking fruit juice versus eating the equivalent fruit, and the results are stunning.

> But would the latter really affect you vs. a meal without carbs?

Yes. The body will prioritize sugars, and thus carbs, over fats in both processing and energy extraction. That is problematic in that the rapid processing of sugars produces a result similar to a stimulant drug while consumed fat is just stored without use. Dropping carbs has allowed me to feel focused constantly without need for caffeine and minimizes sensations of hunger.
AMD Appears to Be Preventing Ryzen 5000 CPU Support on X370 Motherboards
So you're waiting on floor 3 for the elevator to go down, someone on floor 4 gets in and presses the "skip floor" and goes to the ground.
Why is that every, single article that gets posted on this subject at HN completely ignores the “funny names” list that actually caused this incident.

Folks keep acting like it was kids screaming BLM on the company message board and it’s kind of infuriatingly disingenuous.

It feels almost purposeful that folks are ignoring the specific political grievance that employees had, and they are framing it as activist pressure.

I’m genuinely impressed at Basecamps ability to completely control the conversation, and I’m incredibly annoyed that articles posted here about it have completely ignored this argument.

It was a specific political act that upset employees - they didn’t “want to just post activism all day instead of working.” That argument is so manufactured it’s painful, and I’m dissapointed a bunch of educated professionals can’t see the manipulation at play.

“I just want to work at work. I don’t need activism in my workplace.” is an opinion entirely tangential to the actual events. But it’s what people hear want to talk about I guess.

It’s good business sense for an internal team to say “You shouldn’t have a funny names list. If that got out it’d be PR hell for the company. It’s bad business and not related to work.” That’s how these complaints should have been taken.
> I don't think there's strong enough reason to expect everybody to response similarly to the same diets.

anyone who I have ever known that did a water diet had the same results.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27012687
Nokia + Microsoft poured more resources into Windows Phone than Nokia would ever have poured into Meego. And they failed, despite both WP 8 and 10 both offering a really great mobile OS experience.
This (my) little rant is of course hyperbolic, but I tried to make two points:

1. The actual specification is sometimes better reflected by the implementation than by some test cases.
2. Some test cases don't help you understanding what's supposed to be computed.

Of course, counterexamples could be made. Imagine a board game with a test function testing specific moves. Those test cases will help you understand the implementation a lot.
Do you have any links to the incident for the uninitiated?
Is it possible to run Android apps in the Linux phone? If I could run WhatsApp and my bank’s app (which I need to in order to get into my account) I would definitely switch.