skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were 2 function's called something like convert2Upper and Convert2lower (Don't remember the exact names) in Java that took a string broke it into characters and for each char did the following:

If (InputStr[$i] == 'a') InputStr[$i] = 'A';
If (InputStr[$i] == 'b') InputStr[$i] = 'B';
..
..
If (InputStr[$i] == 'z') InputStr[$i] = 'Z';

Written by someone with over 5 years 'experience'.

- Suramya
The only aspect of the Apple App Store that strikes me as truly anticompetitive is their prohibition on adjusting prices to include Apple’s fees, or even to tell the user what they are.

I can accept that Apple can demand a 30% fee for billing customers on their devices. And I can accept that they would prohibit installation/sales of software any other way. But I should be allowed to mark up the price by 30% and then call it out as a line item.

The fact that Apple can control what prices I set on other platforms and prohibit me from disclosing what’s happening to my users...

That is the part of this that strikes me as dystopian, and that’s the area where I think antitrust and free speech laws perhaps ought to step in.
Polymarket is centralized, but one benefit of it is that you can sign up and fund your account anonymously (though you do require an email). Users are not restricted by state or national laws.

On a true decentralized gambling app, email would not be needed, just wallet. It would also be difficult to regulate (the team behind it could be anonymous).

And I'm not saying this is great or anything, but it shows how you can build something with a blockchain that you could not otherwise.
why is that hard to believe? literal children do it to get fortnite. any site that is trying to get you to sideload will have convenient instructions for how to do it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-fortnite-on-andro...
And the userbase is there because of the apps.

Let’s not pretend Apple doesn’t also benefit from having apps in its store and on its phone.
I love that Vitalik is always being honest and admits when something is overpriced, or the fact that Blockchains have inherent limits to scalability.

The problem is the global consensus. It's a very expensive operation to do per block.
Question for any medical professionals around: If you experience a substantial electrical shock, but it didn’t cause you to go into cardiac arrest and you don’t have any severe burns, is it likely that the danger is over? Or should you still seek medical attention as soon as possible?
This is a good argument that it isn't a monopoly.
Breathing. Psilocybin. Daily Long walks > 6km. Diet. Workout. Human interaction, careful selection.
aviation nit to pick here—

I haven't tried to find the actual flight path, but for a transport aircraft at cruise the "closest airport" would not be underneath the flight's position, but rather at some distance away corresponding to the computed distance to reach the surface in an idle power descent.¹

From 30,000+ feet I'd expect that value to lie around 60–80 miles, iirc.

/Acey

¹–ignoring in-flight fires, medical emergencies, etc., that might dictate an unusually steep descent profile.
I mean... Aliexpress is Aliexpress US - Amazon is worse since you don't expect the product to be counterfeit, a knockoff or completely gamed reviews.

At least with aliexpress that's exactly what you expect, and exactly what you're paying for.
Fast & Open source metrics demo dashboard
Got a nice zap from an iMac power supply
> since there's some technical skill required.

That's the understatement of the year. Check out

- 2nd Reality: at a time when Doom-style graphics were awesome

- 8088MHz: getting 1024 colours out of a CGA adapter (which is made to output 4 colours)

- 1K (or was it 64K?) demos that involve flying over procedurally generated (close to) photorealistic landscapes

The demo scene pushes the brink of what's technically possible. Or just ignores it and goes way beyond what everyone thought possible.
Granted. But the underlying principle is the same, no? If Apple is offering better discovery, consumer protections, policies and support, then they should have the better store experience.

For the record, I think they are offering the best experience at present (by a long shot). That isn't guaranteed going forward though, and I believe competition here would be healthy.
Really it’s not that specific - all the APIs and features is just back-solving to justify their core belief that iPhone is God’s gift to developers and the economy, and Apple deserves a cut of all (digital) commerce that happens on it.
Over years I had shitton of random `abnsadc234` named projects that I used to learn, test, grasp, actually implement some concept.

The thing about $customer_ready software is that huge % of it is just "boring" stuff, the exciting $core is just small part.
No, it doesn't depend. That fits clearly into the first category, in which things do not go wrong when there's an 8msec delay.

By contrast, using a DAW with typical settings, an 8 msec delay is catastrophic within the scope of the task, even though nobody gets hurt and nothing gets destroyed.
Costco reviews generally seem more legit.

Anything I can buy at Costco instead of Amazon, I do.
Yeah, it's why I ultimately think opt-in verified identity networks are how we counter that; not necessarily an easy task to educate people why, educate what's acceptable/unacceptable, and for them to trust the leadership/governance of that ecosystem to be willing to have a unique ID so a bad actor, even if simply.in a timeout for misbehaving, can't circumvent integrity systems by creating another account under fake or stolen identity; a cascading or hierarchical or decentralized-like system for different nodes of trust-identity verifiers may be useful or a good idea, or not, and then can have umbrella organizations that determine which subs or arguably smaller managed-curated networks are trustworthy with their processes/protocols - which can be "random spot tested" via umbrella organization's verification mechanisms to check for integrity; that's unnecessarily complex or it allows for different existing verification platforms to aggregate - but they may not be willing to integrate with such a system as attempt for competitive factor/leverage.
A functional convergent bi-directional streamable distributed database
>really? How convenient

It's almost like a number of countries suddenly refused permission to travel through their airspace, making them need exact fuel measurements rather than relying on preflight planning.
The link you found explains it well, but there is a different perspective if you want to focus on impedances. The idea is to drive the capacitor with a high impedance. This impedance should not be a resistor, because a resistor will limit current (more current means a higher voltage drop in the output), further it will consume power and become hot. Instead, you should look for something that works more like an ideal current source. An ideal current source has an infinite output impedance (because loosely speaking the impedance R=dv/di and di=0 for an ideal current source). A constant current source is a good fit for charging a capacitor since a constant current means a constant dv/dt slope. Now, as your link shows, a switching power supply does not have a constant current source in its main circuit, but it does use an inductor which has similar characteristics since inductors resist changes in current. The governing equation of an inductor is v=L*di/dt, and for the output impedance of the inductor you get loosely speaking R=dv/di =L/dt, which is large for large L and short timescales (dt close to 0), hence the similarity to an ideal current source. Now the driving part of the circuit at the left of the schematics in your link is a voltage source. So to drive an inductor, you use a voltage source. And to drive a capacitor, you use a current source. Inductors can be seen as current sources, and capacitors can be seen as voltage sources. I hope this explains it.
I apply to maybe 5 companies at maximum, but I always track them in a spreadsheet with a similar functionality to this kiter app.

I just forget what the status of each application was or is. When did I apply, when was the last communication and what was discussed. I just don't want to worry about any of it, so I write it down.

I wouldn't use an app like this because I would simply create another spreadsheet when I need it again, but I can see how it would be useful even for a small number of companies to track.
It's merely a daughter company, owned by RyanAir Holdings. That's why RyanAir itself refers to the flight as (unsuprisingly) theirs.

There seems to be some sort of an orchestrated action behind spreading this distorted version of events - I see it on Twitter as well.
Yes, but NASA doesn’t exactly have a huge budget compared to the overall Federal budget.
I think you're correct. Look at Bill Gates total inability to function as a human. Even the so called winners are destroyed by this process of capital.
Hi Alex. Thank you for sharing and congrats on finding a great role. I think you are spot on. For many there will always be the option of jumping in a "track" career or taking the first opportunity that comes their way. For the rest, like yourself, there are so many great companies in need of great people out there that it can be worth taking the time to be strategic and thoughtful. With the ease at which you can search/find/resume-drop/email these days that trend is likely to grow.

You mentioned having success with a Trello board. Is there anything that you wished you could have had in addition at the time?
I am very open. Focus on the statement, not the person.
mythbusters polished a turd. :)
Miniature Russian Jet Fighter Flies 500KM/H
>doesn't using your own UNL basically equate to a hard fork in the event that the nodes don't agree?

Short answer: No, if one or a few dont agree they are just ignored. If the majority (>50%) does then it halts and if a quorum is reached (>80%) it could fork.

long answer: Its complicated. Under normal conditions nothing happens but in edge cases (large node outages/physical disconnection/like if and undersea cable is cut) it could fragment.

This can be avoided if the core of the nodes mostly has each other on the UNL. But since we cant and most importantly should not enforce that its encourages to create and publish an UNL if you think the existing UNLs are not good.
Its also encourages to use an UNL with large overlap to other UNLs
This leads to the assumption that almost everyone uses one of the published UNLs with minor changes (mostly additions) else if you had mayor changes you would publish an UNL to convince other to also drop/add specific nodes (after all if you have a reason you probably want to tell everyone)

Since the UNLs overlap the real nodes UNLs should too and forking is not possible with large overlap.
On a high overlap it could only halt if too many nodes are separated/offline which is the wanted behavior rather than making uncertain progress.

There is a amendment coming (most likely) for negative UNL where nodes can signal that they lost contact to a node and temporary remove it form the UNL. This would reduce the risk of halting if large percentage of nodes are temporary lost. Instead of 20% it would tolerate more nodes to go offline before the network would halt. It basically adjust the 80% quorum requirement down with every node that goes offline but has a minimum of 60% of the original 100%. 60% is the minimum to prevent forking/fragmenting again. only 51% would be needed if the UNLs would had perfect 100% overlap, so its a bit higher to compensate for the fact that UNLs dont have 100% overlap.

https://xrpl.org/negative-unl.html
I wholeheartedly agree. They must have been terrified from the moment it became clear that something strange was happening. It's also terrifying to observe that noone is helping them
Yes it was a mistake
The theory centered mostly around: What are the odds that a bio lab doing gain of function research on SARS is in the same location as an outbreak of a novel SARS variant?

Root Claim puts it’s at an 83% chance it’s a lab leak based on circumstantial evidence: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV...

It’s not definitive but it’s far from conspiracy theory territory.
"in 2020, Apple’s app store commission revenue was close to $15bn, which was larger than total global revenue from the entire digital music industry... Around 90% of this revenue comes from games, and almost all of that comes from in-app purchases."

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/13/apples-ads...
BeerSelfie
Science, bro.
With respect, I don’t understand your comment. You’re saying Facebook provides you utility. Well, FBs business model is they provide you a service in exchange for your data. You have the option of engaging in that transaction — using their service in exchange for your data. Or you have the option of not using their service.

Legally, I’m not sure how you can have it both ways, aside from either FB offering a paid tier (you pay cash instead of providing your data), or we shut FB down entirely.

What exactly do you believe is the solution?

Personally, I think social media is more harm than good. I don’t want to ban or control social media companies (my local officials aren’t even capable of keeping drugs and homeless addicts off school grounds, let alone dictating internet regulation). My personal choice is to not use it.
Yes it would help with porting to a platform which is supported by GCC but not supported by LLVM.

For a new platform it doesn't change anything. By definition neither GCC nor LLVM supports a new platform since it is new.
Morales’ plane was not forced down, and there was no chance of a political arrest actually happening (because the plane would not have landed if Snowden had been on board). Moreover, the European countries would have known in advance that their actions would not force the plane down or create the possibility of an arrest. So your simple question is not relevant to the situation.
The DOE labs weren't so spooky. Lawrence Livermore was more like a campus with public bikes at the end of the 8O's. I got to program on the Cray 2 in FORTRAN as part of a DOE high school program. I even got a picture of myself standing by the Cray 2. They did take security seriously as it's the only time I've had a M-16 pointed at me.
I couldn't view the website or thing properly.
But what about: https://graphviz.org/
I think he meant interview? And it was the word choice that was laughed at not the pronounciation.
I really do. It doesn't fix anything, only makes problems worse. Who cares that I can get a burrito delivered with a button press when people are starving and inequality is only rising?

Why does it not fix these problems and instead propagate them?
I'm not a huge tv or movie person, but about 20-30% of what I watch is probably subtitled, and I've used subtitles to practice spanish. I tried to practice swedish, but I found that too hard.
> The more things like this happen, the less they look like mistakes.

That's a fallacy and being kind to humans is hard.
Great point on the value of keeping tabs on timing. Most of us are very busy and many are fortunate enough for the job hunt to be part time. Having a clear idea of when the last time you had contact with a company is exactly the type of thing we are trying to make fun and easy.
For the historically curious, state-sponsored skyjacking is not without precedent. Israel appears to have pioneered it:

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/13/archives/syrian-airliner-...
[2] https://www.wrmea.org/1994-november-december/israel-was-firs...
[3] https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/rokach.html
In comparing it to the mid 90s web, you miss three things:

Everyone I knew was using 90's web. Home pages, websites for companies, movies, etc. It just wasn't really monetized or centralized into the big tech brands you listed. There was already real use for it, even if it wasn't remotely close to its final product form.

There was very little scamming involved. Nothing the likes of which we see with ICOs, pump and dump schemes, etc.

There was also a real spirit of openness and transparency, people pushing open source, an advocacy for a "world wide web", etc. Blockchain is the opposite, where everyone is trying to carve out their own little kingdom and push their own scam coins up.
> you need to make a consumer-friendly distribution of the node software

https://bitcoinknots.org

It's a distribution of Bitcoin Core. It needs 5GB to store enough blockchain state to fully verify everything. AFAIK Bitcoin Core also has a convenient GUI interface.

I set up a node on my computer. I didn't touch the command-line once. It has a nice GUI and built-in wallet.
This. In school I was taught: “in class, you learn the lesson then you get the test. In life, you get the test then you learn the lesson.”

This parent-comment musings drive home the importance of documentation, or complete project management. You’ll feel it viscerally and whatever the experience, you’re responsible for it.
Aka Sean Culkin agrees to a 20% pay cut...then another...
> Of course, that's my decision whether to support future-me or not

What a great phrase, I'm going to remember it next project do. I get angry at past-me sometimes for the gibberish he wrote.
Your example makes no sense. How would blizzard banning a wow account (I don't know the game particularly well, but let's just use this since you brought it up) be solved w/ Blockchain?
The opposite. No sign up with Google, too much friction if there is another service that does offer it.
Unless it doesn't, because the power supply is faulty.
It could be worse:

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/funny-e...
Nate Silver on this article (https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/139655077036...):

> My priors:

> Lab leak 60% (⬆ +20%)
> Natural origin 40% (⬇ -20%)
I’m curious on how to become one (links, online courses, etc)
Unnamed and unreleased :) I occasionally work on it when I can’t sleep. I hope to release it one day...
PolitiFact also quietly retracted their lab leak fact check (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/politifact-retrac...).

It’s incredible to me how just last year and up until a couple months ago, journalists and social media users viciously attacked those who proposed the lab leak hypothesis. It resulted in numerous acts of censorship (for example Zero Hedge’s ban from Twitter around a year ago), and was also incorrectly used to attack Trump (presumably for political gain in an election year). It allowed the WHO to perform a poor, biased site visit that misled the world, as the CCP tightly limited what investigation they could perform. This entire sad saga of information warfare highlights the need to limit the blind trust we put in journalists, news industry, and fact checkers. We should be especially wary of those who seek to censor views that are unpopular, disagreeable, or speculative.
> thanks to this nobody can today say

So... you won't even try? That's the part I don't understand. An Irish airliner got forced down in an act of war so Lukashenko could kidnap an enemy, and everyone is all "But the fucking Americans amiright?"

Is it bad or not? The distinct impression that I get is that you kinda think this kidnapping was OK, and the US makes a convenient excuse. Please tell me I'm wrong.
Retaining and maintaining a legacy can be the right path when the external processes that interface with them are heavily laden with bureaucracies or qualifications that are slow or expensive to change. Accounting is a great example, as are power plants and telecoms. But it’s important to recognize in industries with rapidly evolving standards, throwing things out can be the answer. This came back to famously bite Joel Spolsky in his defense of legacy code [1] where he argued against Netscape’s complete rewrite, which we now know today as Mozilla.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
There are non-capitalist business models. Employee-owned ones, like many "bootstrapped" ones featured on this website.
> This seriously can't be the best system for everyone involved.

Well its because the general idea of going to university, leaving with debt, getting a job to pay off those debts whilst borrowing more for that car, home and healthcare, etc is now seen today as the great scam highlighted by the pandemic.

It would require having multiple sources of revenue like having 3 jobs + going into youtube / twitch ad monetization, investing in stocks or crypto and your own business to increase your income.

Even if you have huge profits from this, you will still be taxed to death anyway (By being on the highest tax group).
Just to add to the chorus of similar comments: I fantasized about becoming a game developer in school. I had no allusions, I knew what that took. I studied linear algebra, wrote toy games on my own, and even took up physics at university so that I could learn things like optics and motion simulation.

I got a job as a game developer, and I wrote a game engine. I was so burnt out and unhappy that I had to go on anti-depressants.

Years later, some of the most fun I had was optimising financial reporting databases. Why? I dunno, it was just more fun somehow. It wasn't my dream, and I felt like I was that kid that wanted to become an astronaut and ended up in middle management at some megacorp. But you know what? Optimising queries uses the same skills as optimising a game engine! It's fun, and you get paid for it. You get immediate feedback from users, instead of complaining from entitled brats on forums two years later...
Our reality. As imagined/described by a number of folks and expanded by Nick Bostrum in his 2003 paper[0].

Often referred to as the "Simulation Argument" or an "Ancestor Simulation."

[0] https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
WOAH!!! This is absolutely amazing.

I took a portion of a blog post I'm writing, and wrote about half of the first paragraph, and had the AI complete the rest. It stayed along the same topic, and wrote a sentence that I'll definitely be using. From a first impression, this absolutely nails it!

However, at $25/month, this is WAY outside what I'm willing to pay for a computer to help me with my writing. I'm not sure who this is for at that price. I'm not a professional writer, I write about twice a month.

I'm curious how you came up with this pricing.

As another point, we actually overcharged for our service at https://ayvri.com when we first launched it was $12/month. Most of our Pro users were event organizers so it was a small price for them. But our consumer users wanted to pay for the product, and wanted some of the advanced features (though they rarely use them). We lowered the price to $5/month, 10x'd our subscriber base, and barely noticable difference in support requests.

Personally, I think you've WAY outpriced yourself, but perhaps I don't understand how you see the market.
It’s only as anonymous as the paper trail behind the funding coins, right?
Definitely. At the time, though, I was 100% convinced Amazon would just put them all out of business. Our choices would become Amazon or Walmart, depending on whether we wanted to have something right now. I'm glad I was wrong.

It's funny though, we were talking about this at dinner the other night. Both my wife and I are still a bit surprised that we'd trust Walmart quality over Amazon at this point. We don't buy anything from Amazon with the expectation that it'll last, or that it's even real - just things that we'll use lightly and nothing we'd eat (minus Prime Now for Whole Foods delivery now and then). Amazon feels like some weird amalgamation of online Walmart + Harbor Freight.