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Currently probably because M1 is absurdly better than the competition. They will certainly draw users away from Linux unless either this porting effort gets done, or unless other ARM options that support Linux better become available.
Yea, if you're driven by social support, you'll need social support to be driven. That's not really traditional hackerism.
Exactly.

Machine learning, and "data driven" business leadership, is being treated as a get rich quick scheme like it's low hanging fruit that's easy to do.

When in fact it's been known under multiple different names for a very long time, quantitative management.

And the reason it wasn't popular before is that it's very tricky to pull off.
We had some lawn darts when I was a kid. We had a huge yard, so one day I was entertaining myself by trying to throw the lawn darts as high as I could. I threw one up, and lost track of it, so I layed on the ground and covered my head with my arms (in retrospect, that wouldn't have helped). The dart landed in the small triangle between my arm and my neck. Terrifying to think about. I'm glad they're banned!
It makes sense for Japan to pursue this strategy from a practical perspective.

There are numerous areas of the economy where the national government could focus on fostering a disruptive domestic industry, and many with just as much of a potential positive impact on the environment and humanity as electric cars. So why instead of choosing one of those other areas, it would choose electric cars, and help accelerate the development of the one technology that would disrupt its most profitable industry?
Push sticks have been turned into formidable projectiles, even by the most experienced and careful of user.
This is a fair point! Although I was more talking about the language constructs that are used for 90%+ of code, which from my own experience is:

* let
* discriminated unions
* records
* lists
* seq
* async
* fun

Like all languages people actually use, F# has a long tail of advanced features!
The lines have blurred. I would put it more in the editor category. You really need to download plugins for it to come close to an IDE and it's not as feature complete as say pycharm or Clion.

I would say VSCode is more in the code editor category, but as I said before the lines are blurring. With enough plugins and configuration even vim and emacs can straddle that line.

In general IDE's tend to have more features less bugs, and have all of these features out of the box.
I can confirm the Afghans I worked with between 2012-2014 maintaining regular contact with using Facebook and FB Messenger have all shifted coms to WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram.

This all occurred rapidly in the last week due to fears stemming from rumours circulating about Pakistani ISI backed Taliban gaining technical intercept capability.

True or not, the rumours had a significant effect on many Afghans.
Jon Maher comes off like a massive asshole in this article, saying basically "fingerprint tracking has been around for a hundred years, but there's nothing to worry about as the Taliban isn't 'sophisticated' enough to use it."

The further claim that it's not important as they'd just get Taliban biometric data is also ridiculous. None of our tracking has ever been that accurate, false positives in the data alone would be damming.
If we were a completely utilitarian society pursuing some kind of minimax I could agree with this. But, we aren't. Cities have form which reflects lots of social pressures and my memory of standing on the empire state looking down is that different quadrants of new York and new jersey reflect different views of density and land use from green spaces to the projects.

My area (west end, that's the name of a specific suburb in Brisbane) is a working class high density single storey suburb, now overtaken by extensive modern builds of three, four and five storey small development (we call them six-packs from the typical number of flats you can fit on a block), Brisbane's first highrise (torbrek, a 1960s tower. Interesting building) and subsequent 9 to 15 storey developments. It's gone from under 5,000 residents in early 2000s to over 10,000. (Last census 2016 was 9,000. It's probably 14,000 or so now) It's had fights over parkland, schools, bus services. Huge social change, housing cooperative groups sent to the suburbs to free up valuable land for the state housing commission to reduce public sector debt, factories which still occupy an inner city residential landscape, some on prime river real estate. In 12 years time we will host the Olympics and some of this will be used for showcase development.

It's not just about more people. It's about what kind of life you want people to live. South East Queensland is the same area as LA and will be 5m people in the next 15 years. It's not one thing, it's many things. There's room for a mixture of high rise and medium and low density urban living in Australia.
Not true today. Thanks to locked-down and dumbed-down smartphones, Many parents of the PC-era are actually more tech-inclined than their children
Why are sedan safety standard more demanding?
Im not from the US but this:

“..where they have to be stressed about their children and their safety and now they have to be stressed about their finances”

Is a weird argument, as pretty much me, my parents, their parents (probably going back few thousend years in back), every regular parent was stressed about such things.

And why ppl should not be stressed about that when they are unable to support themselves ?
Do you want to first find that out when you're under duress? Sensible defaults matter.
What's particularly funny here is that the "has fun making computers do things" definition of hacker predates the "breaking into things" definition. What you're referring to was called a "cracker"until the 90s.
Does ML really work for you here vs elastic search or other full text search?
You don’t care until you do.
Not really the same info, the original article is more about the Taliban making use of US tracking tools than the social media deletion.
The climate, once sufficiently changed, is much, much harder to change back than getting rid of national debt or getting civil liberties back.
I think you are forgetting two important facts that counter your arguments:

1. A significant number of Swedes were in Lombardy (northern Italy) at the time the European outbreak started there. Furthermore Sweden has at least two major companies with presence around Wuhan. So by the time government noticed the issue it was too late.

2. Elderly care employees in Sweden are basically gig workers, resulting in a huge rotation in care givers and further spreading of the virus. The Social Democrats (and the Left party V) have often been opposed to this.

Two more things to consider:

1. This difference between Sweden and its neighbours is also clearly visible in the flu pattern over the year. It is simply due to different living and travelling conditions.

2. The municipalities are somewhat independent of the central government. Some with the highest death numbers among the elders where controlled by the opposition (e.g. Stockholm).

So while the government could have done a MUCH better job, your comment is already fairly partisan by cherry picking or ignoring facts.
Last updated on October 13, 2019.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/actor seems to indicate this is implemented in the upcoming version of Swift (probably available in a beta of Xcode)
Another comparison of real life and literary figures would be Harold Skimpole, in "Bleak House" by Dickens, who is a riff on Leigh Hunt, and apparently a very good take-off. I would think Leigh Hunt was mortified. Dickens is on record denying it, and said (after Hunts death) he even showed him the page proofs.

(Skimpole shares some of Mr Toads distain for the real world and its cumbersome rules)
Never got hold of lawn darts but my teenage brain did come up with the similarly brilliant idea of shooting an arrow straight up in the air while laying on the ground and seeing how close to me I could get it to land. That game ended abruptly one day when the wind caught one, causing it to land a few inches away from a sunbathing neighbor.
I've tried having them give me a checksum of the last four digits of my card number. They refused.
But we already have two threes: +3 and -3.

It's not that it's important there be two, just every number already had 2 except for 0.
Lighting has also been spun off into a separate company (https://www.signify.com/global) which has a license to produce Philips branded products - similar to the TPVision - Philips TV arrangement. Philips itself is fully focused on healthcare these days (and some consumer adjacencies like Toothbrushes and Baby care stuff).
> I don't see anything else using a pointer to code in production.

If you log it, you could trace it back to the line of code at your leisure.

> It would also lead to problems like: x = 5.0 * y y is NaN with some address as the NaN type. NaN * 5.0 => NaN. Which address (the original or the * 5.0 line) is used?

I don't mean to be rude, but isn't the answer to that question extremely obvious?

The behavior that's much more useful and enshrined in the IEEE spec is that you keep the original NaN.
This is a post where I agree with the forward statement, but almost every cited example issue is highly debatable.
Quit (yes, seriously).

The extreme toll that burnout can take on your mental health simply isn't worth it. There are greener pastures out there and these days I only work with clients that prioritise quality over speed.
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I like that conversation style when I see other people apply it, but in a specific situation it's hard for me to say what the main point is. In the Big Butch conversation, it can lead to totally different outcomes if you choose to do something for Butch (instead of "riding the high horse"), check in with Cathy, or focus the conversation on the topic you entered the conversation with.

All are possible paths, all lead to different outcomes that might interest you. How do you know on the spot that the issue you came with is more relevant than the new information you just learned from Butch?
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Dear Google TV
I purchased my first "Smart TV" running Google TV. I discovered this product is incredibly hostile to someone who wishes to control what is displayed on their family TV.

If you use it as a "Basic TV", it de-activates the Chromecast software which to-date we have used as both a picture frame and video cast.

If you use it as "Google TV", there is no way to completly remove "recommendations" that are displayed on the "home" screen, and there is no way to display Chromecast ambient mode by default when you start a TV or switch between inputs. The "app-only" mode still displays recommendations (ads) and doesn't show the library, which would be useful for children to choose and control their own shows.

Please do the following:

* Add an Option to add "Chromecast" to an "Input": HDMI1, HDMI2, Chromecast

* Add an Option to only show Library on home screen.

* Add an Option to opt-in to everything shown in the Library.

- Watchlist (Y/N)

- Display Movies: All or Selected Movies.

- Display Shows: All or Selected Shows.

Sincerely, A rather frustrated parent.
Anyone else feel like 'concerns raised' is just empty posturing these days? I seem to see more and more concerned-agency and government statements that leads to no actual action...
There's plenty of informal social support within the hacker community - that's what makes it a community of practice in the first place! The very fact that, traditionally, you become a hacker when someone in the community calls you a hacker is testament to that.
Of course the 12V starter battery has a BMS. At least my car has it (Ford Focus 2017)
> Like a fucking human with diginity does.

There isn't enough righteous indignation about this on HN. Thank you. (No sarcasm, there really isn't enough - we need to care more about people's lives.)
> All were doing well
clinically with resolution of their symptoms in most. Seven patients (13%) reported non-specific
symptoms including intermittent atypical chest pain (4), palpitations (2) and mild fatigue with
minimal activity (1). All patients had normal ventricular function, based on echocardiography.
The 4 patients who had presented with arrhythmias earlier continue to be in normal sinus rhythm
with no recurrence.

> Follow up CMR studies have been scheduled and are
pending at the time of this submission for rest of the patients. There were no acute events, re-
hospitalization or deaths reported.

> Although myocarditis following immunizations against smallpox, influenza, and tetanus is well
recognized, 13-16 the experience in children with vaccine associated myocarditis, other than
following COVID-19 vaccination is limited. Importantly, myocarditis was not reported following the clinical trials of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.17,18 This may be related to the limited number
of patients in the clinical trials and reflective of the apparent rarity of this complication.19

> The present study adds the following information to our understanding of myocarditis related to
the COVID-19 vaccine: 1. Myocarditis following mRNA vaccines is associated with acute myocardial injury and
edema of the myocardium, in the presence of preserved ventricular function. 2. The initial clinical course and short-term outcomes are good and reassuring. 3. There is no apparent difference in clinical characteristics and outcomes between 12–15-
year-olds and older adolescents. 4. The clinical picture is distinct from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-
C) and appears to be less severe.

> Limitations of our study include its retrospective nature, combining patients from 16 different
institutions which used similar, but not identical approaches during the work-up and management
of childhood myocarditis. Our cases represent a selected cohort which may not necessarily be
representative of the general pediatric population.

Also, preprint despite being through peer-review might change their conclusions based on the fact that the discussion section conflicts, low N values, etc.

Seems less of a problem than the blood-clots, though should be something doctors be aware of while vaccinating children to be certain it isn't happening. Looks like it's being treated successfully and heals appropriately, though, with existing medicine.
This is only true of researchers whose career depends on fraud.

In this case, if anything, an established researcher has everything to lose from such data, whereas the insurance company could give out flaky data for whatever reason and not care about it.
>I suspect in 20 years, walking down the street without a digital radio in your pocket will arouse suspicion though.

Reading things like this makes me think of climate change messing up infrastructure and space junk making it impossible to operate satellites is maybe for the better.

Laws have obviously failed in keeping technology at bay from concentrating power in the hands of a few. Maybe nature can help reverse this.
The number of developers on Macbooks suggests that there are differing yet equally valid opinions out there.
"Drug-sniffing dogs in traffic stops often wrong"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2011-01-06-ct-met...
I was also very surprised when I read that it was in Germany.

When it comes to police checks, it is important to know your rights: https://anwaltauskunft.de/magazin/gesellschaft/strafrecht-po...
The police is not allowed to discriminate against you just because you look foreign. Always demand that they tell you why you were stopped and that they show their badge.

When it comes to racists, I personally would reply with irony and humor to make them look silly. But ignoring them can also be a viable strategy.
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I think the whole idea is idiotic, but this particular point doesn't seem like it would be the blocker. We already have employment contracts which state hours to be worked and similar mundane details, this wouldn't be any different. Such contract details would only be tested if someone tried to exploit a loophole, like showing up for a bunch of interviews to get money but with no intention of actually completing the tasks.
Can you really be sure though?

How hard is it really to redirect outgoing calls?
As a merchant it isn't easily possible in the US and Australia (as far as I know) to receive money from customers with no fees in an easy, automated, online way.
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I'm from the UK, can someone explain the timescales, cost and process of getting a doctor's note in the US?
Concepts are just nice syntactic sugar for stuff that already existed in the wild for decades, hardly "language-changing".
The models themselves aren't political. They're not right, left, green, fascist or anything. They're just explanations and successful predictions of some part of nature. Politics comes into play with funding and what to do with technology. But that isn't the science itself.
That sucks. This kind of behavior should be monitored and have consequences till it stops.
This video is in the same vein, and does a great job putting this machine into perspective in teh chip making process, but it's sadly a decade old now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
> Considering the vast majority of Sweden is basically uninhabited ..

Okay then. Most of Australia is uninhabited, so let's compare those two (deaths per million).

> But it's not like you can A/B test this stuff.

You can try, and that's what this story (and similar) tries to do, factoring in variables as best they can.

FWIW the fixation on morbidity, at the exclusion of long term health effects, including the mental and physical health of a society's medical professionals by either being overwhelmed or burned out, is similarly bewildering to me as comparing two countries with similar geographies, climate, and effective population density is to you.

What really scares the willies out of me is that someone will eventually BigData this pandemic, and spit out a number that reflects how many people a nation state should sacrifice per month to maximise the wealth acquisition of the elites. This number will inform how governments will operate during the next pandemic.

This petrifies me because I'm living in Australia, where we've adopted an elimination strategy (well, up until a few weeks ago), and it's worked really well for me, given I have no wish to involuntarily sacrifice myself in the name of a poorly architected and grossly corrupted economic system.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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I was recently reading a book called Why we Swim where the author traces how the ape got back into the water. I think she rightly points out that Swimming is the best place to think because there is no way to be distracted by your phone or anything else for that matter.

While I am also in a landlocked city with little access to pools but it would be interesting to get the point of view of swimmers.
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Writing book is my another bucket list beside building a startup. Speaking about scope, writing book is still hard but seems more doable than startup.

I remember have skim your book, although I didn't read every pages. But as any good technical book and as you said, not everyone are having sufficient energy to average 60 hour weeks for 1.5 years. Put aside they are also a parent. :)
I agree and I wasn't trying to dismiss it, I just really don't see the point. "I think people who insulted me shouldn't lose their jobs" - "Polite reminder that this was posted on a website I don't like" doesn't give context, it just seems to try to deflect and derail with some shady guilt-by-association-tactics to keep people from engaging with the opinion posted.
> I think they're a foolish "toy"

Well, I might agree with you, but that's reason not to buy them, not reason to ban them.

> he prevented many injuries and deaths that would have occurred had he not stepped up

Well, it's likely he prevented deaths via lawn darts. But we cannot know how many lives we lose due to the cumulative effect of prevention of dangerous games. What I mean is, a lot, if not most, of the play that young men do is preparation for a dangerous world. Do you think there are no consequences for preventing dangerous play? Is it possible that the deaths just happen later in different, unanticipated ways?
1500kW bike, that's a beast.. with wings and a pocket fusion engine, I presume .. xD
Then there's an antifraud scenario, when the bank still calls you and asks stuff, now you need precise classification what they can ask you and what you can tell them.
I think the biggest mistake people make with eBike conversions is putting in too powerful of a motor. If your motor lets you bike faster than the brakes or other components can handle, then it's too much motor.

Get an electric moped/scooter/motorcycle if you want to ride faster than you can pedal.
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The specific strain is Heracleum sosnowskyi (often called Sosnowsky's soup in native languages) - it's not the same as Giant Hogweed, but both cause similar burns. It's not just a problem in Russia but throughout many former-USSR countries.

It wasn't bred, but discovered in Sakartvelo, after which it was intentionally spread throughout the USSR to be used to produce animal fodder (feed) as it grows fast. The seeds are easily spread by rivers and can lay dormant for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_sosnowskyi
It's the article's own subtitle; I wouldn't say that's "nowhere near". In fact the subtitle is often much closer to the article's actual content, especially when the main titles are written by headline writers optimizing for linkbait.

This is standard HN moderation—it might be good to review the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Lots of examples at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
When I was growing up in the 90s I lived in a rural area. I drove a late 70s-early 80s style detroit land yacht. I was an idiot and ended up in a cornfield doing 70mph. So did a classmate driving an SUV a few months later. Do you want to guess which one walked away and which one died from a rollover crash?
I wonder if the increased reflectivity could be a visibility issue for drivers, especially when wet (which can already be an issue with regular asphalt). Certainly sounds good otherwise though.
Exactly. I don't really understand what they are thinking there.
I’m genuinely interested because I’ve miserably failed at it so far.

When I inquire about the speed vs quality trade off in interviews or during discovery, the answer is always that quality is paramount. But a little later, when it comes down to the brass tacks, we’re asked to make the trade off and put speed over quality. Every time. Even when it was the company’s motto/yearly objective to “focus on quality”, even there, eventually speed was more important when pressed.

So I’m wondering: how do you find out whether quality is just lip service? It seems like a simple answer but over the last ten years I’ve always gotten it wrong and the project ended up being a pressure cooker with overtime to “fix” it.
do a hackathon

could be self-imposed like pick a project that you have no experience in and do it in a weekend (get something working even if it’s hacky)

you will feel like a hacker
1. Don’t.
2. See rule #1.
That's something that changed for the worse in the last decades. In the 2000's Apple documentation was terrific.

It puzzles me how things like that go. Google and Microsoft improved their developer documentation in the last years