skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually the difference between the US and the EU when it comes to monopoly lawsuits. The US has to prove that the behavior of a monopoly was harmful to customers/consumers. The EU has no burden of proof and can just take market size as a way to go after them.

The general problem I see here is how you slice the market to say a given company has a monopoly. It sometimes feels like those going after large companies try to slice the market in such as way to say they are monopolies, when other slice it in another way to show that it's not. Which slicing is "correct" is really hard, especially when markets shift relatively quickly.
What I find frustrating is that the levels hypothesised to have an effect on reducing the incidence of respiratory illness is way higher than the current very low 'recommended' limit.

Yet when you see studies of Vitamin D they never seem to use the higher level. They seem to stick rigidly to the lower bone health level. Unsurprisingly they see no effect. My own little test[0] showed that inadequacy very easily creeps up on you.

Where is the Randomised Control Test on incidence of respiratory diseases with those people held above the 75-100 nmol/L hypothesis level?

It's deeply frustrating at the lack of actual solid science experiments that goes on in this area. It appears to be a heavy dose of inferred statistics topped off with a heavy layer of credentials, and hope that nobody asks the awkward questions.

[0] https://new-wayland.com/blog/onward-to-100-nmol-update-2/
I think you mean, have the employer buy that laptop/phone for them. The employer provides an, imo, unreasonable ask, then they should have to provide the alternative.
Genuine question: What are the quality improvements offered by Python? Is it mostly access to the scientific community's Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib? The language's semantics?
Must be something in the water today. Although I quite like a coordinated attack on my most hated browser, so I'm not complaining.
I wonder if digital entertainment (e.g. thousands of 1080p movies in a 10TB HDD) could make being there "bearable". You don't have to enjoy it alone, you have shipmates. Maybe even internet (satellite connection)?
Ah, yes, the infamous Rip Van Winkle effect.

I consider time dilation to be an inherently literary format, and Forever War is where the idea is turned up to eleven. There's also a short comic adaptation if you like.
There is medical software here in the Netherlands, that, to this day, still recommends using IE11 for the best experience.
This suggests a potentially disturbing trend -- companies or managers that will start implicitly punishing employees for working remotely.

My guess is that even at companies that officially support partial remote time employees will start to feel some pressure for taking advantage of it.

Adam Neumann once asked his executive assistant if she 'enjoyed her vacation' after coming back from maternity leave. Now they have a different CEO, obviously, but I can see the parallel -- any kind of situation that deviates from butts in seats at the office will be frowned upon.
IE11 is over 10% on the sites I build. Even when IE11 becomes only .5% of my users, I will support it.

I work in healthcare, so I don't get to make lazydev excuses about time constraints and "edge cases." The people still using IE are the people who need my web sites the most.
Where are you from? I’ve never heard someone do this.
Thank you for providing this detailed and thoughtful analysis.

"Job creation on this scale and at this pace is not without precedent. The U.S. followed avery similar path in mobilizing for WWII. Winning the war for the Allies had a total cost ofaround 1.5 1939 GDPs. Transitioning to a completely decarbonized energy system probablyhas a cost closer to just 1 2019 GDP of $22 Trillion.

Recognizing the terrifying realities on the front lines of battle, and the deprivations at home, is this a fair comparison?

"In the most simplistic analysis, only considering jobs in the energy industry, we cansee that decarbonization will produce at steady state a few millions more direct jobs thanwhat we are doing today with fossil fuels. In a more complete economic analysis based onthe typical methodologies for modeling economy-wide job creation we see the net creationof around 23 million jobs at the peak settling at around 4-6 million more jobs at steadystate (2040 and beyond)"

4 million net jobs represents an increased cost of $200 billion per year for the same level of service ($600/yr per US citizen). The article estimates the capital costs of decarbonization to be approximately $3 trillion ($9,000 per US citizen).

Very good. We have a baseline understanding of the real costs of the project. Now what is the cost of the null alternative? Could we realized a decarbonized society without government intervention? Is this the most efficient use of capital?
IE11: yes. IE11 "integrated into anything you were using IE11 for": no. MS is working hard to make sure that it fulfills its contractual obligation with respect to IE11's EOL, but it's at the same time removing it from everywhere it was traditionally integrated so that it can die a proper death. It'll be officially supported for as long as Windows 10 is a thing, but they're going to make it as useless as possible outside of "just being an old browser that's incompatible with today's web".
That seems to be the point. Targeting ordinary people with less-extreme views. People who aren't wed to a particular political ideology or who aren't motivated by hatred of their political rivals, but who just want to see their own lives and those of their countrymen improved.
In the context of covid-19, it's important to establish causal benefits of Vitamin-D.

Drinking water is good for health, breathing clean air is good, taking Vitamin-D is good but none of these have evidence as a cure for covid-19 specifically.
Anyone else notice how all the comments at the bottom of the page are from bots posting links?
Yeah I mean the effects of gamma aren't controversial, but the whole concept of being able to move the market with social media posts to force it to skyrocket, that is more dubious to me. The GME stuff was essentially as far as that concept has ever been taken, and that particular scenario didn't play out- so while theoretical, I don't think this is a real thing with any significant effects. The whole thing about manipulating financial markets for "lols" is just kind of strange to me- and it all feels very dishonest. I have been on WSB for years and occasionally look at stocktwits, and while it used to be mostly harmless, a lot of loss/gain porn, a lot of bad insight, but the occasional nugget of some solid research... it just feels sinister these days. Are these guys really in it for the lols... or secretly hoping to get rich and keeping an eye on their internet friends to ensure they get out before their friends do?

In general though, its not really clear to me who on these financial forums are the manipulators, the manipulated, or just truly clueless. But it's all just kind of upsetting, as it becomes clearer that the internet is spiraling towards ever increasing manipulation.
Indeed! The Curse of Knowledge strikes all the time if you aren't on constant guard for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
I got to get back to work, because I'm dis-engaged because I work from home. So I can't spend an hour explain how wrong this article is.

Yet WeWork major competition is work from home.
Iron dome intercepting a barrage of rockets over Tel Aviv
I'll add on to the good points other have made here - smaller planes tend to fly out of small airports in the suburbs or the countryside. Larger planes fly out of much more urban areas, where there are a lot more obstacles, making a safe landing less probable.
This is probably the only way to have fast software in today's hardware.

Unfortunately the popular languages are all about single element at a time, and pointer chasing with the compiler having a hard time vectorizing operations and reorganizing data structures. I think most compilers don't/can't even do this because there are not enough guarantees. The only systems that actually do this are DBMSs.
I've always understood the F in any of these to translate to "fine" when in ahem polite company. Same number of characters.

[EDIT] LOL wow that justification is wrong, forgot about the 'ing'. Still, that's the word I've usually seen subbed.
I am not analyzing the realism of the physics, I'm not qualified for that. Physicists say it's realistic enough and I believe them.

But realism in the science aspects of a movie shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of a coherent story or bad character development.

I respect your take and what that movie means to you, but don't think that I didn't want to immerse myself in it or anything like that. I was highly anticipating this movie for years. It just didn't do it for me.
I posted this because I spent the weekend at a coastal town called Agulhas The name "Agulhas", Portuguese for "needles", is said to have been given to the cape because the compass-needle was seen to point due north, that is, with no magnetic deviation.
This was in the 1500's the current deviation is over 20 degrees east.
Thanks for your response.

Its the interesting use cases I'm trying to find - the kind of easily understandable case studies that make for a good narrative. Hence the reason for my post.

I dont need to worry about the technical details.
Case insensitive filesystems are a horrible idea, because you have to take encodings into account and the Turkey test, which means that either your normalization is broken or something will be equal under en_US but not tr_TR.

Normalization should be done in the file manager or in a gui file picker, and not at the filesystem level.
>> Blockchain is a brilliant solution to an extremely rare problem

It's not a rare problem. Fiat currencies don't work for the majority of people. The problem is ubiquitous. We need to separate money from state and blockchain provides a mechanism to do that.

Just because fiat works for a handful of rich people, doesn't mean that it works for everyone. Everyone can see that the current system is unfair.
I wrote something that might help: https://github.com/skorokithakis/expounder/
Every corporation in the US should be lobbying to abolish Bitcoin. It’s an existential threat that could be eliminated if they pooled their financial and political resources.
I make the distinction as do most native speakers I know. however... it's probably as weird to the people who don't distinguish it as is the rider/writer distinction[1] some people make on the "i" sound in those words whereas I don't make a distinction.

“writer”: /ɹaɪtɚ/ → /ɹaɪtɚ/ → [ɹaɪɾɚ]

“rider” : /ɹaɪdɚ/ → /ɹaɪːdɚ/ → [ɹaɪːɾɚ]

[1]https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/4103/the-wri...
I didn't downvote you and respect your pragmatic view of research and coherent well thought-out out replay.
East Jerusalem is an annexed territory where the residents have an Israeli citizenship which is different from the west bank so in my opinion Israel law does apply and the specific International law/UN opinion does not apply.
My two cents is it depends on the nature of the lack of functionality, is this just about not displaying information or is this going to cause data corruption (ie, if validation checks or expected ajax calls are not being made), if it's just the display of things I would probably go with a warning message.
Italy already created a new Google, it went incredibly well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557824
If we’ve learned anything from Apple’s history, it’s that what they say today has little bearing on what they’ll do tomorrow.
Crypto is wild wild west even a small speculation can send prices up like 10-20% in a day. There is little to no government oversight, if you have a hint or some insider knowledge there is lot of money to be made. Other thing you can do is whenever crypto is down just put few dollars across all options you have and eventually one of these coins will skyrocket and you diversify again.
IE pre-Edge is best thought of as a built-in UI library that shipped with Windows, not a browser.

When you add that + longevity in deeply integrated enterprise software, everything makes more sense.
Thanks for catching that! There were some manual steps to convert it from RST to MD and we are still doing a run through to fix everything up (and to make things consistently use Replit - the later chapters still reference a local environment quite a bit).

I've added that code snippet in now. Feel free to let me know if you spot anything else :)

The site also links to the original which is more battle-tested at this point [0]

[0] http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/
Isn't that an intentional design decision in Zig? As far as I understood, Zig isn't trying to "solve" memory management, it's trying to provide manual memory management with better tools than C to help you do it right, but it's explicitly not trying to save you from yourself in this respect.
The structure would be designed around an adequate fatigue life. I wouldn't be too surprised if fatigue considerations were such that in "normal operations", stresses could well be 10x lower than the ultimate material strength.
No joke. If you think about the computers that would need replacement, say purchased in 2010, could literally be replaced with some microcomputer that fully wipes and resets itself between logins that runs some desktop linux. These things are capable of driving a screen, keyboard and mouse and can connect to the internet - we've boiled down what a computer is to a re-settable science at this point - there's no need for a big ass tower with fans in it anymore.
Kelley btw
China isn't doing worse than Europe and US when they were "growing up" as China is now. Asking China to do better than we did because we have polluted the earth without helping China out is unfair and China likely (and rightly) won't listen. So to answer your question: The US and the EU can do our part which is to help clean up (even if that help is to help China polute less) instead of pointing fingers or start trade wars. Carrots work a lot better than whips. AFAIK the EU does more carrot than whip which gives me some hope.
I don't understand what the scandal is?
Then actually it might not help you too much... it's really a replacement font rendering engine for Windows (initially Windows GDI rendering and now they're adding in support for DirectWrite). It uses FreeType with various parameters to make the font rendering look more like macOS (in a nutshell: macOS doesn't use aggressive hinting to force the font shapes into the pixel grid, which makes it blurrier but more accurate on low-resolution screens; Windows does, and so it looks sharper on low-resolution screens).

However while looking around at a bug report to get MacType to work in Firefox [0] I came across a setting in Firefox's about:config [1] that can change the font rendering and that might help you out. Not sure about the history forking thing but there may be some Firefox extension to help with that.

[0] https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/673
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652141
This is how - https://techstartups.com/2021/04/30/bill-gates-turned-55-mil...

First you buy stock in your selected list of companies. Next you pledge suitable sums of money to charity programmes. Then you use your power and influence in ensuring said companies get all the big contracts. Your foundation is funding these programmes of course, so you can influence whom they partner with. The stocks of those companies shoot up and you profit. The funding is effectively more of a strategic investment than a donation. The tax savings are just a bonus.

Think about why Gates, who is in the philanthropy business, fought so hard to ensure Oxford don't put out their vaccine in the public domain? Oxford wanted to do so but Gates stepped in "suggesting" they partner with a well known entity like AstraZeneca instead. Of course, when you are a benefactor to an orgranisation, your suggestions tend to do more than just suggestions. AstraZeneca's terms were that they get exclusive IP and licensing rights and you know the rest.
> It seems to me that both languages are interpreted

Node.js uses the V8 engine for JavaScript which isn't just an interpreter - it includes a JIT compiler.
>A "landing page" is not necessarily the home page.

Excellent point. And a very powerful one too. It just caused me to think about the content and structure of an educational site I'm involved with in a VERY different way.
Thanks!
I don't recall anyone talking about removing support for Safari though.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/obesity-...
I had a feeling this was the case and even had a discussion with some colleagues about whether they paid up or not. Like the article says, they couldn't afford not to.
There was never a time when that was the case.
> (Mind you, there's no similar feature for Android, so FAANG might be carefully snooping on only Android users. But it's pretty unlikely.)

Android has about two billion users - there's an extremely strong incentive for large, ad-driven companies (like Facebook) to segment Android off and take advantage of every API possible to gather data with - and they certainly have the resources.

> Or do you imagine the hypothetical speech-to-text modelling is happening on your phone?

Yes. Speech recognition is a relatively easy problem for the purpose of the advertiser, because they don't need anything approaching perfect accuracy - unlike tools like, say, Siri, which need a very high accuracy rate. It's well-known that you can sacrifice accuracy for performance/power in many algorithms, and voice recognition has been the focus of intense study, with many low-power algorithms being developed. For instance, here's a design (it does contain a custom chip, although one tested at a large process node and containing functionality similar to a GPU) that consumes 8mW of power on a >100k word dictionary: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2018/Price_IEE...

> For an example of a similar battery draw: try opening Shazam or another "audio fingerprinting" app

Those are completely different tasks. Audio fingerprinting is not remotely comparable to low-accuracy voice transcription - otherwise Siri and Google Assistant would drain your battery constantly at the same rate.

It's pretty clear that your claims of "superstition" are unfounded speculation that is inconsistent with the abilities of modern technology.
Show HN: I made a Slack app to bulk add everyone to a channel
What difference does that make in practice?
The problem is that IE chains your feet compared to every other single browser. CSS Vars? Nope! JS performance that is 1/50th that of Chrome on the same platform? Yep! Weird-ass rendering choices that make zero sense compared to the W3C standards? MS has you!

Basically, IE11 didn't change with the web so it's really out there now. You can develop for Firefox and all the Webkit/Blink offshoots just fine, but IE holds you up.
https://github.com/ratfactor/ziglings
Curious why someone wouldn't like Kelley- Is it because he shoots down feature additions a lot?
If we accept that emission credits are intrinsically valuable (i.e. have some utility in the form of helping to reduce the adverse effects of Global Warming), I do not see why that is an issue. You can think of a portion of each credit as part of the utility of one actual Tesla car sold.
I know that glider maintenance procedures in my country call for redoing the center of gravity measurents after painting. Might have been related?
Thanks. The main problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to access it by keyboard. Secondly, it's also not possible to convert a tab to a separate window by keyboard. So what is a single keypress on IE becomes a cumbersome operation.
I don't know why the comment above was downvoted. The parent clearly doesn't know what they are talking about (e.g. in a deterministic setting at most one third can be malicious).
> It was trivially easy to expose the user's google/gmail address by typing in a random URL within the user's blog.

This one is fixed now!
Pg8000 – Pure-Python PostgreSQL driver
Judging by all the 'I know better' comments that are posted in this very post, you really couldn't.
Every company on the planet seems to be asking that. It’s like “AI”, one of those technologies that you can’t risk everyone else using while you don’t.

So for some reason having a solution and look for the problem is suddenly acceptable. Few seem to find the problem though.

If you read through typical descriptions of how blockchains can be applied in industry, you’ll notice that they are extremely vague. That should tell you something.
Django debug is quite dangerous to expose online. Are you hosting this on your own computers?
My favorite physically-based sci-fi is “The Expanse” (TV show on Amazon). The physics and constraints of space travel are not only accurately depicted, but also used to drive the story forward in interesting ways.
Sure! I'm thinking of things like QT, WPF, WinForms, Java Swing.

What these have in common that is missing from HTML/CSS/DOM is a significant library of controls and layouts.
More like Chrome is the Web Standard now. Generally stuff that runs in chrome, runs fine in Firefox and Edge, Safari can be a little weird sometimes but overall it's way easier these days.
IoT Testing Services
How do I hide most of my income?
> the more valuable the network becomes the more it costs to secure it

I'm not sure you need to completely break this relationship, just make it less linear. If I want to go from securing something against amateurs to securing it against governments I might go from 128 to 1024 bit encryption - at roughly 8x the cost to secure. But if an adversary has to use some form of brute force to crack it, they have to do 2^(1024 - 128) or about 10^70 times the work, so it's a lot more than 8x the security.

Obviously the above doesn't apply to Proof of Work, which seemingly require the relationship to be linear. Maybe Proof of Stake might get us in the right direction.
Or clear evidence that he is moderating the rhetoric, after seeing people literally YOLO their life savings into a joke coin.
Is WeWork still around? After their last CEO, I thought they shut down most operations.
Silicon Valley on HBO is easily the most realistic tech/software story.
I mean, the remote question is still very much up for debate in most places.

Personally, I think any company that refuses to offer full remote work to any developer who wants it deserves to crash and burn. However, I also think that's wishful thinking in the near-to-medium term: I'm expecting to see at least a small majority of companies try to force all their employees back remote once they decide that enough people are vaccinated that they can call the pandemic "over enough".

I think it's massively premature to dismiss concerns about having to relocate for a new job at this point.
Sure, I've not seen any claims that vitD cures covid (although I can imagine they exist somewhere) - but the full body of science leans heavily towards it being a strong preventative measure against the worst clinical outcomes of a covid attack.

I imagine your other points could be preventative as well and I would also highly recommend breathing clean air when possible and staying hydrated. I know that might sound silly to read, but simple measures to boost your own immune system really are far more powerful than society seems to give them credit for.
This is the app in question:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enel.mobil...

Mostly 1 star reviews on it.
The distribution of popularity of the features is not uniform. My intention is to carefully look at the intersection of relatively less used features and features that make python slow/inefficient and exclude them from the supported subset.