skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better luck here, but I shy away from thinner gaming laptops like the ones Razer makes. Thick chunky laptops weight a ton but then so does my old thinkpads. Thin laptops have ruined our ability to cool things reasonably.

They weren't the most powerful, but Dells Inspiron series of gaming laptops have been pretty good the last few years. Especially when it comes to price Dell and Acer keep putting out sub $700 gaming laptops you can often find on sale for $600 or $650. They almost all have an open m.2 slot or 2.5inch bay for extra cheap storage and swappable ram.

Currently I'm on a Maingear Vector Pro (Ryzen 5800H / Nvidia 3070) and a blessing is just how tweakable the fan profiles are as well as power adjustments for each of the saved profiles I have setup. AMD's lastest mobile parts are still extremely performant with a 35W power cap if I want to keep the fan speed down.

All else fails I can just hit the 100% fan button and even under full load the cpu is hovering around 78C and gpu around 68C. It's loud but I don't do rendering often so its a compromise I'm willing to have for the amount of portable power.
> Xaiomi's and Viomi's

Not sure I'd connect a device from these vendors to my home network.
> By your argument, we CAN commit murder, but it has a very high probability of additional adverse consequences

Which...is obviously true. I mean, it would be nice if people could not commit murder, but they can and do.
We'd survive the first few months after nukes start to fly, after that I'm not so sure. The vast majority of humans live in areas where the climate and environment makes survival without a lot of cultural knowledge very hard. Add to that fallout, possible climate effects from the nukes, I can easily see a non-zero probability of total extinction within a couple of years.
I'll get shot for suggesting this most places, but I feel like GTK has the most 'native' feel across every operating system. That's not to say that it's easy to get working (setting up proper build targets is going to be your biggest hurdle), but your reward is a stylish and robust UI with proper touchscreen support on Windows/Linux.
> But it did make me suspect that in another few years the newest appliances will simply not function at all if you don't log in, and pay the monthly subscription fee.

That's the dream. Every appliance maker wishes it was a SaaS company.
Apple will stop finding ways to squeeze indie developers and spend more time making iphone great again
By trying and failing, depending on what I’m learning I prefer to take in knowledge differently though. For something physical, say piano, yoga, fixing a drain: video, something technical: text, language : audio. But for any of these things I seek out someone better than me, Since the pandemic started I’ve done video guitar lessons in addition to YouTube, yoga with Adrienne on YouTube, French lessons with a native tutor to brush up and At work, i reach out to people that are better than me at any concept or skill to set up one on one sessions and always offer to do the same with things I’m strong in. With that being said, I spend more time doing things through articles but feel the time other developers share with me I learn more faster.

Sorry I’m rambling, but, when possible I think it’s great to get a person better than you to help learn. For me personally, that level of accountability keeps me from falling off (which I still do, but, less)
I got the "100% thing" when I said it in the first post, and you started responding "if vaccines don't give immunity", yada yada. In response to me saying tehy don't give 100% immunity.
Using SIMD acceleration in rust to create the world’s fastest tac
And DOM API is an example of bad API design. Compare that to a modern XML API (like .NET System.Xml.XDocument) and you never want to see Dom again
If they were doing that, they should also overhaul the whole system so you're never giving your credit card number directly to the sites. Similar to how if I use OAuth to log into a site, that site never has a chance to see my password.
Apple's system does not allow a developer to refund a purchase. Seems like the height of half-assed.
Interesting project. Couple questions:

1. What separates you from Spree which recently started offering a headless platform as well?

2. Do you support Tax/Shipping calculations?

3. Where can I see a list of all supported integrations?

4. Do you offer deployment options?
Ok fair
> A lightning may contain between 200 and 2000 kWh of energy. There isn't any capacitor or inductor bank that large that could contain this amount of energy that fast.

Here's the thing though: The Earth-sky system is a big capacitor, which discharges when its dialectric (air) breaks down to form lightning.

You can bleed this capacitor slowly before it discharges.

I believe that one way to do it is with lightning rods. Supposedly, the spiky tip of the rod concentrates charge, causing a strong local E-field which ionizes the air a little, letting a little current flow. One theory is that this prevents lightning from striking, by preventing too high a potential from building up.

If so, we may be able to harvest "lightning power" at relatively high voltages but low currents, using spiky, lightning-rod -type structures, say on top of wind turbines, that trickle into our own capacitors and power electronics.

Then, you would see nothing dramatic at all, but maybe, over the course of a few years, you would see a statistically-significant reduction in the number of lightning strikes. At most, maybe you'd occasionally see some St. Elmo's Fire on the spikes.

At massive scales you could imagine this messing with the nitrogen cycle -- I believe certain nitrogen compounds important to plants are made by lightning -- but that seems like a pretty far-off concern.

Actually, this is a pretty good article. Lots of good work back in the mid 1700s by people like Ben Franklin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_electricity#Hist...

Or, check out this delightful website: https://ionpowergroup.com/. Deep in the bowels of Government Science you can still find people who wear socks with sandals.
You think there are law firms that will want to hire her? She's toxic.
This isn't my whole approach or anything (it builds on a really good education) but I find my continuous, lifelong learning of things I want in my soul to know about has reached a stable, always-improving habit by having a few stacks of the right books in reach in the right places.

On my toilet is a stack of dual-language books; German and Old English, Latin, French and Spanish, Ancient Greek, Japanese, as well as Shapiro's Introduction to Number Theory. Lots of Dover editions. Wittgenstein.

Next to my desk (on the second desk) there's always an open math book or two (Knuth Vol. 1 and From Frege to Gödel right now), as well as a few open notebooks.

By my bedside, a few works of great literature and philosophy (right now Rawls, Joyce, Homer).

In reach of the couch a variety of books on art history.

By the reading chair, well... lots of books.

I read, skip about, get stuck, forget things, but every day I dip into these little piles for a few minutes here, maybe an hour there if I'm lucky.

One thing I never care about anymore is finishing. My mind can grow a bit more, most of the time.
That makes the brand look so... cheap.
Get him to try the Godot game engine 'build your first game' tutorial. I have seen kids fall down the rabit hole after completing that tutorial.
That sounds like it would be going too far and almost show contempt. But perhaps they can reject apps that use scammy payments
Yikes. All unencrypted I assume?
Why are 2 logic gates faster than 1?
Helpfully given in the introduction, here is some useful context for this change in case some people miss this part:

> Since 2016, all personal messages, calls, video chats and media sent on WhatsApp have been end-to-end encrypted. […]

> WhatsApp’s backup management relies on mobile device cloud partners, such as Apple and Google, to store backups of the WhatsApp data (chat messages, photos, etc ) in Apple iCloud or Google Drive. Prior to the introduction of end-to-end encrypted backups, backups stored on Apple iCloud and Google Drive were not protected by WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Now we are offering the ability to secure your backups with end-to-end encryption before they are uploaded to these cloud services.
> In my town there was a local scandal of sorts where some people got exposed as promoting white nationalism but then they were called white supremacists in all the reporting.

White nationalism is a particular expression of white supremacism.
Just curious about having that many - I have, I think, 8 right now, but there seems to be a limit (of 10?) due to how many times you can re-use a phone number. Do you get around that by using multiple google voice numbers or something?
>> In short, iOS apps must be allowed to direct users to payment options beyond those offered by Apple.

> It seems their max app gaming revenue lost would be 64 * 70% * 30% = 13.4B for 2021

It is my understanding that the injunction is not limited to games. It applies to all apps.
This 100%. As an Android user if I have the option to pay for a subscription with Google Pay (even for extra) I will do it to avoid the dreaded "You can only call to cancel" interaction where someone will spend the next 10 minutes trying to talk me out of it.
I ask you to put your thinking hat on and imagine other scenarios where compulsion is softened by indirection. The 'tested or vaccinated' choice is a temporary choice and unlikely to last. The pressure is firmly in the vaccinate or lose your job direction.

What is the 'good of society' and who decides it? In a pluralistic society there is valid disagreement about which are the goods (plural) of society. It seems you don't agree.
I didn't include that kind of users, because I'm not travelling with them. Just like you I wouldn't trust them with the main spreadsheet, but surely you can give them their own spreadsheet: they won't be participating in most decisions anyway, so it's not like you'll need to copy paste most of it
One drawback of the current situation is that for example you can’t purchase ebooks through the iOS Kindle app (because Amazon can’t/won’t let Apple take their 30% cut there), and the app can’t even link to the corresponding product page on Amazon. If the new ruling enables such purchases and linking, then as a consumer I’m very much in favor of it.
The worst it could do is broaden my horizon. As long as it's fiction I don't mind, but thanks for your concern :)
... but if you can't work on an interesting problem (where you get a cut of the revenue to solve it) then please, make sure to work on the best possible tech stack, ie, the one the company you want to jump ship to already uses.
Both Apple and Epic are considering an appeal of the decision : https://twitter.com/bobbyallyn/status/1436386058317402112?s=...
Very interesting. Apart from the UBI angle this is too political to discuss here. And until specific UBI plans are announced there isn't much to discuss there.

My thoughts, in long form: https://yevaud.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-andrew-yang
It's not a question of "obey or starve," it's a question of "live in and participate in society, or GFTO." If you want to enjoy all the benefits of living in a well governed, well protected society, you're going to have to give up certain things.

If you're not willing to give up certain things that are required to maintain that society, you're welcome to go away. You have that choice.
Maybe it's along the lines of "Races should be ruled by members of their race" versus "<Specific Race> should rule everyone". Then the first would be race nationalism, while the second is race supremacy.

The next question though is when someone claims race nationalism, are they being sincere or just trying trying to make their race supremacy more marketable?
Have they fixed ipv6 support yet?
To brag a little, my favorite feedback on the newsletters I send is "Thanks! Short and sweet, loved it!" to a 1000 word email.

It's okay to write long. But it needs to feel short by being concise.

You can always tell when someone squeezes a 1000 page book into 200 pages. It feels short and insightful. But when they expand a 20 page book into 200 pages, it feels like fluff. You can tell when that happens too.

A good pattern to observe is an author's first and second best seller.

The first is often amazing. A decade of lessons and insights squeezed into a book. The fast followup is usually fluff. 2 years of add-ons expanded into a full book.
It reminds me of a part in The Dark Forest [1] by Liu Cixin, where a single alien probes annihilates a whole fleet of human space ships because of such big technology difference.
This series [2], btw, has transformed my view of space and space opera litterature. I have a much somber thinking about space, the theory in the books, is that there are species that want to wipe all their opponents and the only way to survive is to hide.

Another take at this is from Charles Stross in Singularity Sky [2], where a whole human fleet is again destroyed by aliens like a flick of a switch.

I know these two are science fiction, but like comment, a nuke won't save the day when aliens have been forced to live in the void for the travel time and have engines capable of taking them here.

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest

2. https://www.goodreads.com/series/189931-remembrance-of-earth...

3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81992.Singularity_Sky
Runs on "linux" (aka NSA/Microsoft Windows) isn't the point here. The source code isn't available outside of the NSA/Microsoft walled garden, seemingly anywhere.
~USD$70 B AppStore revenue (yearly, 2020), so simplistic estimates:

5% price cut: -$3.5 B

15% price cut: -$10.5 B

... I think all bets are on the table as to how Apple will respond, given the magnitude of what we're talking about.
As far as I can tell, you don't need it if you're piping the right stuff to Remove-Item

C:\temp\foo> dir

Directory: C:\temp\foo
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 9/10/2021 1:03 PM 0 thing1
-a---- 9/10/2021 1:03 PM 0 thing2
-a---- 9/10/2021 1:03 PM 0 thing3

C:\temp\foo> dir thing* | Remove-Item
C:\temp\foo> dir
C:\temp\foo>
If there is competition allowed, maybe Apple lowers price and then you don't have much change in convenience.
Wait, what intentional security vulnerabilities?
Containers aren’t the final destination, but they’ve enabled polyglot orchestration i.e., an app developer can target Kubernetes without needing to manage the minutia of operating a bunch of Linux hosts. It seems like almost every company that isn’t using containers for SaaS software development ends up badly reinventing Kubernetes and sinking a ton of time and money into maintaining it, and as a “human person”, I’m glad that I can focus my efforts on higher-level problems. When a technology inevitably matures to replace containers, I’ll look into it, but for now containers are the best way to build and manage heterogeneous distributed systems.
> You have taken a theoretical question - the definition of sovereign government and the monopoly on violence - and applied it to reality. It's Alice In Wonderland stuff.

I'm not seeing an issue here. Theory which one cannot apply to reality is rather pointless; wouldn't you agree?

> That's not how real people function, including (almost certainly) you.

Which part are you objecting to, exactly? That (a) people tend to follow the law when it aligns with what they would have chosen to do anyway, or that (b) they tend not to constrain themselves to following the law when the law doesn't align with their own moral standards and no one is plausibly threatening them with violent repercussions should they fail to comply?
I recently built one using Fyne for golang. It works well for my case but Fyne is still very new and in development.

http://fyne.io/
Title says original Windows 95 Paint.exe but readme says it uses JS Paint and the readme of that says it's a web based remake.

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95 seems closer to achieving the title.
A thing that helps with Rust, in my opinion, is that the language is statically typed and people mostly write functions. That makes it easy to glue the pieces together in my head. So even if the documentation isn't great, I can find a way to do what I want.
Oh ok, thanks for the heads up. Can't believe I let all these doctors, medical professionals and scientists cloud my judgement and make me believe them. I should definitely trust a stranger online, believe their conspiratorial drivel on a shadow cabal consolidating power and redpill myself out of this fever dream of a life I've been living.
I don't know that there is much data specific to the COVID vaccine, but for vaccines in general the overwhelming concern seems to be the (false) perception that vaccines are not safe:

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...
The funny thing I noticed, people who talk most about it owns more than 2 cars per person in their household and sometimes use private jets or aircrafts to move around the globe.

Why to worry about changing earth if the earth is changing for last x millions years more than imagine.

I think most important thing is to be able to adapt. Millions of people died in ww ii with stuff discussed in this topic... many more will die, no questions
MSDN and the whole ecosystem around it is a gem. MSFT isn't great at some (or even many) things but I've always felt MSFT really put a lot of effort into developer experience. I don't miss much about moving away from the MSFT orbit except for MSDN and their development tooling. I kind of got some of it back with Visual Studio Code but I still really miss the Visual Studio level of experience.
30k is either a small city or a very large building.
Lisp-based extension and scripting language on macOS and iOS
The young and minorities have some of the highest rates of not being vaccinated. Are those demographics heavily right wing?
What makes lightning strikes so powerful is less the total energy and more the short timeframe it's delivered in.
The agreed-upon surface area of 'the good of society' is smaller than you think. A disease that is %99.99 survivable and likely won't be resolved by non-sterilizing vaccine. is not comparable to the prohibition on murder.
I think the judge didn’t specify how equal access needs to be given to alternatives means of payments. It’s very straightforward to design a payments SDK where card data gets stored on the phone and payment providers are forced to use that SDK so that all of them would absolutely the same experience as Apple pay. You can even force them to provide subscription cancellation like Apple does. But Apple wants you to believe that’s not possible, so probably they won’t do it.
If you have access to Python 3.5 or 3.6, you can use my open source library https://build-system.fman.io to create a Python / Qt app with an installer for all the OSs in minutes. Python 3.7-3.9 is also supported, but only available commercially.
Qt/QML is my choice.
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It's not just that. As a developer I wouldn't want Apple to know who my paying customers are. Right now, there is no option. With this hopefully there will be more options.
> Every iOS and macOS user will prefer to use the Apple system.

Speak for yourself. I am from India, and we already have much better payment systems then Apple's:

1. All our debit / credit card are chip-based.

2. No card transaction can happen without the PIN. Some online transactions require both a PIN and a password.

3. For any online transactions, the payment processors often support the following options to pay - using debit / credit card, directly from our bank account (Net Banking with 2FA), Unified Payments Interface (UPI) ( https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-overview ) which is another online digital payment mode that even allows for easy peer to peer payment between parties and umpteen online / mobile digital wallets.

4. Best of all, using any of these payment modes won't allow Apple any access to my financial data.

(And naturally Apple supports none of these popular modes in India because otherwise Apple would come under closer scrutiny from indian regulators.)

As far as App Store commissions are considered, from a developer's perspective Apple can go screw themselves if they want anything more than what competing payment processors charge. (Like Epic, I am disappointed that consumer rights weren't considered at all - ultimately it is us owners / users of Apple devices that pay these 30%-50% or whatever commission!)
Don't forget about Informix. Early 2000's had several commercial databases.

I worked at both a Sybase shop and an Oracle shop. I far preferred Sybase.
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It's not guaranteed, but one realistic outcome is that its IAP services get worse, because e.g. automatically saying yes to all refund requests is less feasible when margins are thinner. Retailers like large supermarket chains are only able to have no-questions-asked refund policies because nobody is actually taking a bad box of cereal back to a store, but in digital, it might too easy right now for a 3% cut + absorbing chargebacks to be sustainable. Similarly, having cancellation be one-click and done is great for the consumer but if you're in the razor thin margins game unfortunately making unsubscribing difficult is a competitive edge.

IAPs are only indirectly a product that app customers get a choice in; the primary customer is app developers who have vastly different interests. There may have to be a shift on some of these axes for Apple to compete on price.
Age-gated.
It would be really nice if there was a shared widget API that would work for the major operating systems. If most of simple app could work on Windows, OSX, maybe mobile (Android / iOS) and Linux / BSD.

Something that was mostly native for all of them.

Currently the only alternative to Electron that is similar is a program that hosts a local webserver and the local browser is pointed at it, but that's a second class experience.
> China also didn't have official community transmission in December 2019 yet we were seeing people coming out of airplanes sick constantly, which allowed us to calculate their infection rates

No, this did not happen. Infection rates weren't calculated until January 2020. Nobody even knew there was anything like SARS spreading in Wuhan until 27 December 2019.

Within 72 hours of the first test result indicating a SARS-like virus, it was all over Chinese social media, and even CCTV reported on the outbreak. And of course, it only took a few weeks afterwards for the hospitals to become overloaded with sick patients.

> Today there are no flights out of China

This is simply untrue. Just to take one example, yesterday alone, there were 9 flights from Shanghai Pudong Airport to LAX.

The situation in China right now is obvious: the virus is gone. Just ask any of your friends/colleagues who live there.
>The founders didn't want a strong federal government, they wanted to states to be highly sovereign.

Depends on which founding father you were talking about. Jeffersonians preferred weak central government and autonomous states while Hamiltonians preferred strong central government. It's what lead to the creation of political parties in Washington's administration.

>The founders put in the bill of rights to limit the federal government's actions, not state government actions.

The Bill of Rights limits both, that's why both state, local and federal laws can be deemed unconstitutional.
> 1. Cut down the IAP commission to 15% for everyone. 2. Cut down the commission to 5% for those who pay for a Business Account, say at $5,000 a year.

Payment processors and their networks are infinitely more complex and resource intensive than a mobile app distribution store, and their commissions tend to only be between 1% and 3% per transaction.
https://www.fltk.org/ - fast light graphics toolkit
https://nanogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - nanogui
Only if you have physical access to the server.