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Nobody communicates at their best or perceives everything correctly when they're anxious and feeling like an imposter. Based on what you have written here I would not conclude that you are inherently a bad or slow communicator. I wouldn't even assume that you're coming off that way to other people. I hope you can get some relief from the anxiety and feelings of inadequacy.
> The point is opening it up so users have a choice.

Users have a choice: Don't use iOS.

Their actions have pretty overwhelmingly spoken and they don't care. The only people that care are techies. And most obviously not that much because most meetings I show up to are still full of iPhones.
Police told man container in car tested for drugs. It was his daughter’s ashes
Indeed, and it doesn't have to be as "machine learning" as the big ones.

A FLOSS system would only have my voice to recognise and I would be willing to spend some time training it. Very different usecase from a massive cloud that should recognise everyone's voice and accent.
I live near a small airport with a lot of air traffic fueled by tetraethyl lead (avgas). So it seems society hasn't really caught up if it's a rich person's hobby.
The implication here seems to be "when using HTML semantically", because I think everything you're talking about can be done with CSS if you're willing to abuse HTML.

Take this CSS accordion which uses hidden form elements: https://codepen.io/raubaca/pen/PZzpVe

I agree that if you want to use HTML semantically *and* have intuitive UX/UI, you're very limited in what you can do without Javascript, but this isn't *just* a failing of CSS; rather, I think it's due to the design of HTML and CSS historically being to the exclusion of the other, rather than with a symbiotic relationship in mind. Go far enough back into the history of web standards and it kind of makes sense though; HTML and precursors had been in development for years before CSS was standardized
I did not bother to read this thread in its entirety though I typically enjoy HN discussion.

Undoubtedly, masks of any quality work. Airborne viruses still exist in secretions (likely, in much higher concentrations). Secretions sometimes even carry living cells, would you imagine (in fact the #1 cause of sputum sample contamination for C&S; the bane of internists everywhere). High velocity events certainly increase the environment-load of secretion and thereby virus.

You don't need evidence in all cases. Im sorry to say, to the otherwise curious-minded, this is one of those cases.
>In the long term, I agree with you. In the short term, it would be nice if the people who we are forced to pay for the task of preventing antisocial behavior would stop the person who is causing tens of thousands of dollars in property damage, since broadly speaking nobody else has the right to do so.

I don't disagree with you. At all. This is a complicated set of issues that will require complex solutions (note the plural).

It would be great if we could stop such folks from causing property damage.

Our society is governed by laws and, more importantly, respect for those laws by the vast majority of us.

Unless we kill or imprison everyone who might engage in such activities, I'd say that we'll likely always have some of that sort of activity.

Reducing the number of folks without strong ties to society/the community seems the best way to address these issues over both the medium and long term.

As for short term solutions, that's much more difficult, as we've spent centuries demonizing the mentally ill, the poor and others society has deemed as "lesser."

>To put it another way, how much more damage does this person need to do before you consider it a crime problem?

A valid question. Without a lot of reflection I'd say that it's less important to determine whether or not some act (or collection of acts) is "criminal" than it is to identify the appropriate mechanism(s) to minimize the likelihood of such behavior from that individual in the future.

And there are many mechanisms to choose from. That incarceration has been the default for a long time doesn't always (or even most of the time) make it the right mechanism.

A broad and complex set of issues underlie this discussion and I haven't done it justice here. That said, I urge people to look beyond the display and use of force as the only mechanism to address these issues.
Well speech recognition for personal use doesn't have to recognise everyone. In fact it's a feature, not a bug if it recognises only me as the user.
I think the active/passive thing is worth expiration. But to 1) conclude that passive=bad seems to need evidence for why that is and 2) is there a significant difference for the Israeli/Palestine article set.

Both of those seem just stated without evidence so it seems odd that the MIT supervisors would have a student write this us.
This is a popular trope, but in practice it's just as easy to do n+1 via your own abstractions where "items.each { |i| i.foo }" happens to do it too. Without any ORM involved. Everyone will do it sometimes and the question is only whether you're going to spot it before it causes an outage. (In many cases it will only cause a slight slowdown)

At least there are tools to warn you about n+1 automatically https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet
That's exactly the point. The "how hard can this be" comments are often applying an individual use case, where corner cases can be ignored or worked around, to an enterprise situation, where corner cases may hit some legal constraints (e.g. accessibility) or may no longer be corner cases once in enterprise-scale (e.g. multiple languages / currencies / time zones).
"We have 150,000 APIs to create and maintain"

Really? API calls maybe, and a lot of them are barely documented in my experience.
I agree. I think the market has shown that if not artificially hampered by the lack of schematics, parts, and DRM that even the most unrepairable seeming products can still be repaired.

A motherboard with soldered on components like RAM or CPU are still more likely to fail because of a bad capacitor or some liquid damage on the traces.
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Indeed, this is what I got from it too. It seems an alternative to VoiceXML used by companies like Nuance.
Tesla Model Y Is Spotted Testing Lidar with Manufacturer Plates
The level of specificity in debates around these subjects is kind of moot. The trajectory of growth of these companies and their impact on our everyday lives make it obvious they will be regulated to ensure fair competition. Whether it happens today, or 10 years from now... it will almost certainly happen, I'm very confident in that.

I don't plan to hash out the legal language of a proposed law in a HN comment, but "platforms" will probably be defined in some way and be required to allow competition. An app store is nothing other than a market that can either be competitive or not, depending on how it's regulated.

It was considered sensible to implement anti-trust laws to protect consumers in the broader markets, I have no doubt that when a privately created market reaches sufficient market share and impact, they will be subject to anti-trust laws as well.

As a thought experiment, imagine 99% of the population uses iOS... now the private market of an app store becomes the de-facto public market by virtue of adoption. The same can be said for social media, where a single app can control 90% of discussion (depending on country and medium of discussion). There is no world in which these things will not be regulated as "public spaces" once they reach sufficient scale.

The question is just when does the scale become sufficiently large, and when do the rules cross the line into anti-competitive behavior. They are close but maybe not quite far enough to get regulated yet.
Oh I'm sure it's at least cat5, but phone jacks are usually wired in series (in my experience, at least), which puts a damper on what you can do with them for data.
I just can't see this use case.

The power draw is probably fine, but the contention for the battery would be a problem. Think, "hey honey, can we put off the Costco trip until next week so we can leave the internet up, and lights on?"

Implementing a transfer switch and dummy load just to dump solar generation when your truck is being a truck would feel like a weird exercise.
This will always bring up http://sinatrarb.com/ in my mind, now.
That does not sound desirable at all for anything other than basic toys..
What if the problem is groups of random people? How much does it cost for an escort with an APC and a dozen guards?

The sad thing about this is that people can’t figure out that $20 / month won’t buy you a 15 minute phone call. You’re paying $20 per month to be a surveillance endpoint so Citizen can sell the real services to the rich.

America is filled with suckers.
5 arlos here and I love the hardware but the software is so bad and unreliable, especially mobile that I regret going this direction. I'd probably go with unfi if I did it all over.
This is a false analogy.

People who purchased a phone, own that phone. Apple doesn't own it anymore.

Thats the difference. McDonald's own the store. But they don't own your car.

And similarly, Apple does not own your phone, but they go to great efforts to prevent you from using other app stores.
its not a binary.. first of all there are tons of people who have software needs who just dont have that option. Whats the solution, hire you? you're expensive, and you have your own backlog to deal with. *they are bottlenecked by you*.

second of all flutterflow (and other code-exporting builders like webflow) generates code you can take over, so it can even be helpful to people who could code it themselves, all it has to do is save some substantial time, which as a UI builder myself a WYSIWYG tool always does.
hoping that maybe enough people hear about your case and are motivated by it enough to change their spending habits even in the face of monopoly and violent threats isn't exactly "being able to do something" as a vigilante's bullet passes through your skull.
d'oh. i'm an idiot.

(an idiot who the state of NM certified last year to install his own on-grid solar PV system, so doubly an idiot!)
If customers don't buy consoles unless sold at a loss, they value them less than making them costs. Which means they shouldn't be made.
Have you ever thought about becoming a police officer to be the change you want to have? History shows that is how things change.
> If you don't like Epic's store, just don't use it. Problem solved.

That only holds up until something you need is exclusive to a store that you don't want to use.
I like rhasspy but the problem I have with it is that it's too much of a toolkit and less of an application. There's too many choices to pick for the different components.. I think they should pick one of each and really tune them so it works really well. This way they'd take a lot of complexity away from the user.
This has already happened: https://cryptoslate.com/steem-community-fights-justin-sun-wi...

Justin Sun tried to take over the Steem network and the community simply forked it. The network that has the most legitimacy is a matter of social consensus, always. That's true of all currency, by the way. If the world starts to reject a currency, that currency can undergo tremendous inflation in a rapid amount of time. This same fate that has happened to other currencies could happen to the USD. The German Mark lost its value in the 1920s. The Argentine peso is currently undergoing the same effect: https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi

Supply and demand are laws of economics. Can't be avoided. Currency issuers can control supply but they can't necessarily control demand. They can try to influence demand, but ultimately it rests on a community or a marketplace to decide that. Doesn't matter how absolute your power is, you can't beat economics in the long run. Read a history book about all the failed empires of history. It's almost always a monetary phenomenon that does them in.
Yes, they do one thing, and say another. They're not telling their own kids that being obese is beautiful and healthy. That message is for the poors.

> 'Wokeism' (or at least significant parts of it) is, contrary to popular opinion, not an elite project. The reason why it has actual pull in society is because it to a large degree comes out of fairly old-school, activist organizing.

I think it's both, and the activist aspect is why it's so effective and embraced by the Twitter slacktivist crowd.

Identity politics was pushed by the elite to divide the underclass into small pieces. After Occupy Wall Street, they shifted the national discussion and focus away from class to identity.
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No, expecting dead people to work would be silly.
Close. It's not the electricians qualifications that make it safe, it's a feature in generating home inverters called 'anti-islanding'.

A correct install is of course also required as it's possible to screw up and unintentionally cripple this important safety feature.
The repairability index that France rolled out this year is great in that regard. Sellers of certain types of devices including smartphones and laptops are required to post a repairability score for the product prominently next to the price tag. This highlights to consumers which products are designed to be usable for longer through repair and upgrade and which aren’t, even if they otherwise look and function similarly.
When we have self-driving cars, can Ford, Tesla, etc., require businesses to pay them a stipend to allow our cars to drive to those stores?

"No, you can't drive to Walmart; Walmart isn't in the destination store. You may drive to Target."
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> I’m still not certain even today, if anything exists that is faster to get a dynamic site up and running than PHP.

With PHP you can just start typing in your file and produce output. Even with lightweight frameworks like Flask there is boilerplate.
Back in the days it had terrible defaults that made it very difficult not to write insecure code and it was lacking so much it was really hard to write good, structured code.
I'm not sure they were drawing a specific comparison between the US and some other country, and there's quite a bit more diversity among European countries. There are at least many in which speed limits are stringently enforced using speed cameras or other more "ruthless" methods, accompanied with even heftier penalties than in most of the US. Meanwhile, I don't know if there are any states in which minor speeding is systematically enforced.
But there’s no Steam on Android either even though they do support third party app stores.
The upper bound could be because it’s a long time to live as a glorified grub.

It’s also interesting that the different periodical broods have pretty distinct boundaries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas#Map_of_br...

Perhaps the same selective pressures that separated the broods geographically also filtered out shorter cycles due to predation?
They don't want to be whatever the market calls a porn site. Advertising a porn site is a lesser taboo

I love the weird twitch content BTW, so I wouldn't want to pare down for the sake of risque entertainers
congrats on launch! just wondering since you're here - what is the roadmap now that you're launched and what key hires are you looking to make?

am always interested in how companies transition from a deep build phase into a build-and-market-what-you've-already-built phase.
It's not the wand, it's the wizard.
Japanese lawmaker says being LGBT goes against preservation of species
Why is a judge asking a witness questions? Isn't that normally either the prosecutor or defense counsels' job?
He wasn't just asking for access to the DNS account - which it seems like, in fact, he already had and used to try and lock Andrew Lee and others involved in Freenode out - but for ownership of the domains to be transferred to him personally. Which would mean that in effect he would be the one who decided what Freenode was and who controlled it from then on, and if any other staff or users disagreed they could just pound sand. In particular, he appears to have rejected the idea of any kind of community ownership or control over the domain ownership.
I'm pretty sure you'd start screaming blood murder if your grocery store put a flat 30% markup on all items tomorrow.
You own a phone yes. But you don’t own iOS. So take your own phone and install your own OS on it if that’s what you want.
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Apple has made a ton of money from people utterly dissatisfied with the windows ecosystem, so I disagree people have accepted this. (I certainly haven't, and put my parents on an iPad 10 years ago and haven't heard barely a peep out of them since.)

I think more technical HN-type users aren't aware or have forgotten how terribad the Windows download scene was in the 2000s. It was almost impossible to install anything without getting some toolbar or adware bundle, if not outright malware.
> Then we'll have to trust that all of these companies have the same level of competence to prevent malware that Apple does (narrator: "they won't").

This is a losing argument. We've already seen that the Apple store doesn't/can't prevent clones and fakes with information collecting inserts from overwhelming the originals.

Another store might actually do this better.
Black Americans want to retain their current level of police presence (or rather, that of the status quo ante). This might be because in many cases they are quite likely to be the victim of a burglary:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r...

https://www.newsweek.com/denying-crime-wave-progressives-are...
This is just stunningly naive, sorry. You're imagining a bunch of noble professionals, but in practice in history when you give a bunch of people weapons and tell them to police their neighborhoods, and ESPECIALLY when you make them accountable only locally (to the people paying them, in this case) and not to society in general...

You get gangs. That's how gangs form. Organized crime, almost everywhere, has its roots in this kind of "local security" of an underserved disadvantaged population. People who can't rely on the police for order end up under the thumb of whoever can provide stability.

Now, OK, sure. I get that you're thinking that somehow this startup has found a growth hack to disrupt this millenia-old industry and do it better than the Mafia. Well... maybe. Or maybe it's just another gang.
> The at&t monopoly came about via government power,...

That is what I wrote, yes. AT&T knew who to "lobby". That is information asymmetry.
> If you ask me, that's a crying shame.

If they ask you, buy the MacBook Air instead of the iPad Pro!
I think governments should be held to the highest possible standard. They are granted powers the rest of us don't enjoy, including the use of force and coercion. Any citizen faced with evidence of corruption has a moral duty to take back those powers any way they can.
Ok, and people should be allowed to install whatever they want on their own hardware.

We don't need to force Apple to put apps on its app store.

Instead, people should be allowed to install whatever they want on the hardware that they own.

> So take your own phone and install your own OS

Or, instead of that, we could use the court system, to stop illegal anti-competitive practices, and require, by the existing law, that people are allowed to do what they want with their own phone.
Privately owned police departments and privately funded police officers already exist in the US. University Police, private police forces at nuclear plants and chemical plants, heck I know of at least one megachurch that has a SWAT team.

The US Marshalls service has a "special deputy" program where bodyguards of the rich and famous become federal law enforcement with little to no oversight. This allows them to carry firearms nationwide regardless of state or local laws.
People lack critical thinking skills. Anyone who thinks they’re getting better value from a consumption priced private service than from a public institution funded by the progressive tax system isn’t considering the economics of it.

Like I said in another thread... You’re paying $20 per month to be a surveillance endpoint so Citizen can sell the real services to the rich.
> Or, using absolute position to, say, anchor a close button to the top right of an element. Sure, the way you did it happened to put it visually in the right spot, but it's not actually in the right spot according to the layout engine because its offset parent is not the element you're trying to anchor it to, so if other content gets put in there eventually, it will be in the wrong spot.

I'm absolutely guilty of this one and would love to know the correct way to do it if you have a resource handy. I generally feel like working with CSS (or ideally Tailwind now) is an uphill battle. In my defense I would also give the container a padding which should (in theory) prevent any of its statically positioned children from overlapping. But as a full-stack developer I often feel like this is the domain of people who spend their entire career focusing on design, and generally when I'm working in this realm its because we don't have one of those people.
Front visibility issues come up from time to time. Especially with children sometimes hidden from sight.

https://www.wthr.com/mobile/article/news/investigations/13-i...
Do you remember what the feature was?
Microsoft making certain choices regarding to safety and how open their platform is has no relevance to what choices Apple makes. Apple happens to choose for a less permissive system and it has been going well for them and their users. I don’t see how that has anything to do with how other vendors choose to operate.
Bioinformatician here. Yes, people have come up with many encoding systems: 2-bit encoding systems, 3-bit encoding systems (for N's), various encoding schemes that allows long runs of N's to be stored with little memory costs, and even reduced amino acid alphabets for e.g. 4-bit amino acid sequences.

In my experience, the performance bottlenecks in bioinformatics is usually IO, parsing, de/compression and needlessly slow algorithms. You rarely get meaningful speed improvements by internally encoding the sequences one way or another (storing small fixed-size sequences in machine integers is an exception). There can be other advantages, though, like reduced memory consumption.

Partly for that reason, most DNA data is just stored as gzipped text files.