skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two words: app stores.

While this is less of a concern for Google (the Android supports alternative app stores, and Google would love it if we all used Chrome), switching to mobile apps will deprive Apple of a significant source of revenue derived from the App Store. Thus, it is in Apple's best interest for developers to continue writing iPhone/iPad apps and Apple receiving a chunk for each sale than for developers to write Web apps and Apple not receiving a cut.
Python's turtle module is an option worth considering. You get a good turtle graphics system but also the whole Python ecosystem.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html
I've been impressed with airthings, but less so recently.

Their app REALLY wants you to turn on tracking all the time, with a flashing unkillable banner at the top of the screen.
Spewing FUD is not a good look either. Introducing paid features is not a 'breaking change'–your pipelines and production code continued to work throughout all this–and charging large commercial enterprises for premium features is not a 'weird, terrible monetization strategy'.
You can disagree with them though. Disagreeing is not limited to posting an event with a time and location which is illegal. There are many ways to disagree.
Super excited to finally be able to run Kubernetes in places other than my AWS account!
Do not be resigned, the day may not come. When you ultimately die, you may not have to make any choice at all, you might never even know it happened, you will never even know you lived.
The important difference between physicians and non-physicians in relation to death is not that doctors understand disease mechanisms.

It is that doctor's are familiar with death.

Ordinary people aren't as familiar with death, and don't have a wide range of responses to it because society hides it and pretends it doesn't exist.

The main place regular people encounter death is on the news as a statistic of war and crime. Then when it visits their family and friends, they are unprepared, except for what they know of death, which is a calamity.

Sitcoms don't include death because they exist to take your mind off work, and provide a platform for advertising consumer goods.

Friends and acquaintances don't often talk about death in expansive terms. They only offer a cliche one liner - sorry for your loss - because that's the only response they've learnt. It's a well intentioned sentiment, and also one that's constrained by a fear of death that is unwarranted.

That's a shame because death is an expansive part of life. It's the point at which a life becomes whole, and we can see someone in their entirety. Death, along with birth, is the context for life.

It's going to happen to all of us, no matter how we try to deny it or hide it. Doctors know this and so they let it in. They do this before life descends into the shadows.
+1

I run bitwarden, syncthing, transmission etc. on a single box at home and this setup works great.
Drivers work, there's just no games. So if you want to train ML models go for it.
India also had people promoting cow urine as a cure, so maybe you’d want to take their treatment advice with a grain of salt.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/viral/controversial-ayurvedi...

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/have-cow-urine-to...
People who used PCs for software and games were in a minority.

It is hard to remember, but the WWW was the killer PC app for a huge majority that didn't jump on Visicalc, adventure games or other pre-web fare.
I don't hate comments. I disagree with unmoderated comment sections with no legal responsibility. On HN the comments are moderated and illegal content is removed. On FB news pages, it often is not.
Awair also sells one for ~150.
The problem boils down to compilers not having multiple classes of warnings. If you do an assignment in a conditional? Yeah, that's a good thing to warn the user about. Heck, that should be an error IMHO. But if I leave in a variable declaration, should my entire build crash to a halt because of the unused variable?

Presumably Google and any other engineering org of any value has their own set of warnings and errors layered on top of the clang/gcc warning/error output. We should try to learn from them, and carry that upstream, rather than bludgeon everyone over the head with a frankly simplistic "warnings bad mmmkay".
Canada wasn't threatened by either of the friends of mine who weren't allowed into the country because of previous criminal convictions. The article isn't wrong when it points out that this occurs routinely. Why is it only wrong when it impacts someone with a cheering section? People will say "it isn't only wrong then!", but they're only angry... situationally.
Another k8s distro that’s hard to administer is exactly what I wanted, definitely not what I used EKS in the first place

(Real talk though, never heard of anyone at Amazon using EKS internally)
The great thing about applications like this is that they really only need to run when the sun shines and the batteries are already fully charged, or anyway when your customer energy demand falls below present renewable generating capacity. Any extra capacity at minimum price does not need to be wasted, because there are infinite uses for the product.

Other similar processes include producing and liquifying hydrogen and ammonia for industrial and agricultural processes.

There is not much economy of scale for these uses, so you can add them to any installation, big or small.
>you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US.

>So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that

As others in the thread have already mentioned, Desoxyn is schedule 2, while Cannabis is federally schedule 1 (with lower schedule number being more restricted).

So no, THC isn't an exception, it is a part of the same rule system. The one in which schedule 2 drugs have more legal privileges than schedule 1 drugs.
There was a crowdfund for legal fees for an earlier thing, but it's gone now. She has a Patreon (xychelsea), and she already has lawyers working on the issue. https://mobile.twitter.com/lex_is/status/1435255042261635072
Great points. It’s worth adding that SARS-COV-2 is spread primarily through the air via extremely tiny droplets (< 5 μm) [1]. Breathing, coughing, and sneezing produces infectious aerosols which can remain suspended in the air for hours. Most cloth masks that are used by the general public will provide very little protection against inhaling or producing these aerosols [2], though such masks are likely to help reduce the spread of larger droplets.

[1] Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149

[2] Aerosol Filtration Efficiency of Common Fabrics Used in Respiratory Cloth Masks
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252#
It absolutely does.

"I invited Hermann Goerring and Martin Luther King to the dinner party, not because I like both of them, but because I dislike both equally and I am trying to expand my intellectual horizons"

The purpose of the sentence is to put them all in to the same category and create a false equivalence.

Don't get me wrong. It's fine if you like Hermann Goerring. It's fine if you dislike Martin Luther King. But you don't get to say they're both the same, then insist on being able to invite both to the dinner party, and then when the dinner party guests complain about Goerring you don't get to tun around and say "see! look at the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" in a way that makes the entire thing a massive narcissistic cry for attention where you are the victim, you're the centre of the story, only your feelings matter and only your needs have to be respected.

Because that sort of stuff is just flat-out far-right-wing trolling.

But maybe you're visiting from an alien planet and aren't familiar with what's going on here on Earth?
Most code nowadays consists of calling third party libraries and your system's other modules. How do you build the models of those components for symbolic execution?
We would be better off, if they just left everyone alone and let people get on the plane.
Let us consider an experiment. Take a long cylindrical coil, so that in most of the coil the magnetic field is constant. In the center, place a diamagnetic material. Does it experience a force toward either end of the coil? If not, why not, according to your reasoning? If so, why does it experience a force toward that end of the coil and not the other?
Web still has by far the best developer experience + cross platform stability, not to mention the lowest barrier to entry. I would be really interested to see what happens with Tauri[1] as that looks like a more promising alternative to Electron.

I do want to see a return to native apps but there are no worthwhile incentives to do so outside of "our customers demanded a native app."

[1] https://tauri.studio/en/
I've had an Awair Element for about 16 months. The only time I've experienced what you may mean by "stuck" measurements was about a month ago, when PM2.5 was puzzlingly and worryingly at a consistently higher than usual level for a couple of days. Trial and error eventually suggested that there was a piece of dust stuck in the sensor or something like that. Upon blowing on the sensor, the measurement returned to normal.
>This does seem to suggest a solution...

Yeah, some already figured out, if you do that, you don't need people from high wage countries.
what MERV rating is that. I do that now but I thought it's MERV 8 which really won't remove much at all
But what many others in this thread have done is just as speculative, assuming malice, and to be clear, I think it could very much be the case, but I’m sharing another perspective based on a lot of experiences I’ve had where external parties assumed malice when internally it was far from it. Take it or leave it. This is the internet and I’m typing into a box.
Chelsea Manning never betrayed me. And if we stick somebody in a cage and take away their ability to fend for themselves, we have to take responsibility for their health care.
I never had much interest in COBOL, but I really liked Hypertalk's pseudo-english code and sometimes wish it had more influence.
You’re being snarky, but the reason they just ask you is so that if you’re caught lying they can deport you for the lie, rather than having to try to deport you for whatever you did.
Well on average it's eating closer to twice a week. People fast for much longer. I think at most I've done 3 in a almost a row - doing stuff with friends will mess stuff up - I fit them in where I can.

You can look into it if you want but there are a lot of people that think its actively good for you. I'm more in it for the weight loss and take anything else as a bonus.
An experimental fusion reactor is not a large building, or ship, or dam, or bridge. We've been building large buildings since the pyramids of Giza. We've been building large ships since before the Dreadnought. We've been building large dams since at least the Great Depression. The same goes for bridges. I don't think it's intellectually honest to compare budget and time overruns for fusion reactors to budget and time overruns for skyscrapers. You kind of say it without realizing it - "millions of large buildings", well yeah: if we have a lot of practice doing something - like building millions of large buildings - then wouldn't you expect us to do a better job of being on time and on budget than the handful of research efforts into the holy grail of energy production?
We don't need a other cryptocurrency company. That's not the point. And with cryptocurrency we don't need the banks at all.
>I am wondering why mobile apps too haven't entirely been replaced by Web apps

Apple has made it so that every browser on their mobile devices is basically really Safari under the hood. And they have purposefully crippled Safari to push developers to the lucrative app store. Nothing is going to change until this changes, either through consumer behavior or through legislation.
Just go on with their lives? Are you suggesting that vaccination alone is sufficient and that normal people should ignore additional simple steps they can take to reduce their risk? Seems rather cavalier, at least for those in higher risk groups.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2020.1...

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/21/bjsports-2021-...
I’m not sure that is the point of the article. Gsuite and Office 365 run in the browser, so people know that those are web apps.

How many people would know that Slack and Spotify are basically just web apps too?
That’s fair. Most of the existing stuff is pretty janky, in that it works for some people in some circumstances sometimes.

I’d say it’s a bit like mid-90s speech recognition: it works well enough to be intriguing, but the hassle and inaccuracy make people favor other alternatives. I’d take an eye tracker over an EEG speller, for example, if I had ALS.

Some of this is due to hard technical problems, like building better electrodes or squeezing more information out of the signals, but I think there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit too. For example, many spellers don’t include language models, which, as someone originally trained in speech recognition, absolutely blows my mind.
> “surgical” masks used actually contained a blown fiber layer, like N95s, and passed the 95% filtration level when tested.

> The study’s authors found that surgical masks — but not cloth masks — reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in villages where the research team distributed face masks and promoted their use.

West coast city: 90% of the people I see around wear useless cloth masks. Borders on criminal that we pretend the mask-as-virtue-statement circus we are currently undergoing has any benefit other than reduced oxygen flow.
No, it was not mind-boggling. Read the first two sentences of the very next paragraph.

"Evolutionarily speaking, Titanokorys belongs to a group of primitive arthropods called radiodonts. The most iconic representative of this group is the streamlined predator Anomalocaris, which may itself have approached a metre in length."

If the most iconic representative of a group is twice the size of this new discovery, the size of the new discovery is not "mind boggling" or "massive".
"Radiation" is meant to suggest that the evolution advanced in many very different directions, like the rays that diverge from a point.

Such "radiations" have happened every time when there was little competition either because a new place or environment was invaded or because a catastrophe had eliminated the former incumbents.

The result of evolution "radiations" was that some group of animals that previously had been more or less uniform because they were adapted to a certain niche, after the "radiation" event became diversified in a large number of groups adapted to very different conditions of life and having much less resemblance between themselves than before.
It was also Toyota helping Tesla buying $50M of stock and getting some inspiration from the innovative Tesla.
they are seeking to block an entry waiver pre-emptively?

I suppose that saves the application for a waiver, and she can just appeal right away via federal courts?
> What is unexcusable is that part of the media propagated with glee a hoax depicting by association their political opponents as worm infested animals.

They could try Ivermectin.
Where else are you going to pay those bandwidth rates?
They may not be poor, but the point is that if you live like that, and get arrested, even if you are innocent and released within a few days, you may have lost your job in the meantime, or have incurred fees that you can't cover, or something else the knocks down the house of cards that is your finances. It doesn't matter if you make minimum wage, or $300k/year. If you spend all of your paycheck before the next one arrives, any unexpected cost is going to break you.
When did Nazi Germany become uninvestable? How many undesirables have to disappear, be sent for re-education, or sent to camps? How many slave labor facilities are acceptable? How about child labor, or toxic environments (actual poisons, not just aggressive managers.)

Ask ARM and Nvidia how doing business with China is working out. China is not playing the capitalism game in good faith.

Investing in China is directly contributing to the worst actions of their government.
Internally do they use ECS?
I didn't really think it was necessary to provide a source as it is literally as simple as googling "nsw population", "melbourne population", and "australia population". The results of those are a little out of date but still in the ballpark of 50%. If you are after official numbers then the ABS is the place to go: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national...
In 8-12 months EKSA will either be very successful or will die, because it’s up against incumbent on-prem k8s so teams will either quickly see the benefits or it’ll quickly be dismissed as useless.

The target market seems to be infrastructure admins who have on-prem VMs and an AWS account and don’t like running their own K8s clusters. No idea what that market looks like in terms of size or interest in something like this, but I’m sure AWS did their homework.
If you're on an instance with a reputation for lax moderation or the other hosts don't like your politics you won't be visible to users on those other hosts. There's a naughty list of hosts that allow free speech or are a home for feminists for example.
No it isn't, even the govt apps in my country have ads in them. With firefox i can easily block them, for apps this becomes much harder, if dns blocking isn't sufficient.
I totally dig what you are saying - and I've been through all of these cycles (well, our IBM minicomputer was dedicated to a single application, so we didn't have engineers spinning up LPARS) + a gig at Loudcloud/Opsware (Pre-Virtualization, so spinning up new environments was nowhere near fast enough to be considered on demand). And I've never worked at a company that let me spin up cloud computers myself (though I've obviously done so myself with Digital Ocean, et al.)

I ran an IT organization that had VMware so I've been on that side - but, once again, employees could never spin up their own stuff, and requesting a new one was never a day, usually took a week or so. And I've worked on customer sites where it was a month+ to get VMs provisioned.

So, despite never having worked at companies as enlightened about empowering engineers to do stuff like you have - your entire analysis has a pretty solid grain of truth, and with $2mm+ in cloud costs at the current gig - we may be entering the "Wooaa there" stage of the cycle, but, I don't ever recall having a toolset that was globally available that let people scale up pods/deploy namespaces the way we do here. We have the ability for engineers to clone an entire customer environment, databases and all, do their work on it, issue a PR, and shut down the clone in a period of 24 hours - and this happens a hundred+ times/month. An engineer interested in working in the latest release is a single click (plus filling in a couple fields around names/labels/release) + 3 minutes 30 seconds away from having a complete build of our current app deployed on 12 containers. I don't think any of the earlier cycles had that flexibility.

Also - when I look at the costs - honestly, the engineering environments are essentially round-off error compared to the full scale multi-terabyte, 500+ container customer environments - so empowering them to do all these things has essentially zero real cost impact.

So - while I think there is some fundamental insight into what you are saying - and I genuinely appreciate it - I think the flexibility / velocity of k8s container management / deployment (particularly around the dynamic resizing of CPU/Memory + replica count) was as readily available as it is now - though, I'm guessing an SRE qualified on Vsphere could jump in right now and tell me everything on K8S was always available in virtualization if you had the right tooling...

Does cause one to think what the next cycle will entail though...
I found this about charging losses 'including charging wall-to-vehicle losses' while looking for a mention of transmission line losses. I was unable to find any consideration of transmission line losses, so it appears the study pretends every EV charges up at the power factory.
Yep, that's exactly what I was saying!
There are some ideas, in fact. They are not very well developed, though, because such research is very expensive, and even the very educated people on this side fiercely fighting the idea that extending people's life is a good thing.

Until the general public accepts the necessity of the age-related research, there won't be any effective mechanism for age reversion.

NIH yearly budget is 35B dollars. Half of that they spend on cancer research, the other half divides between the other diseases. Age research is a tiny fraction of this budget.

Until NIH spends at least 1/3 of their annual budget on fighting aging, there won't be any significant progress.
Yep fair enough. But you get why nobody in USA cares about Chelsea Manning or whether or not she's allowed into Canada.
Happened to a pair of my Dockers once.
Because they believe the best way to preserve their careers is to regurgitate official dogma. It becomes an absurd race of who's performing this ritual in the strongest possible terms. It's going to get worse, keep an eye for explicit adulation of the wisdom of the political authorities.

If there is any Russian speaker around, would be instructive to take one of the old top Soviet science publications and translate the TOC.
Of course Canada won't allow Manning in.

Canada is a Five Eyes member and works to undermine the privacy and digital freedoms of billions globally.

Can't have an opponent to the surveillance state around, after all.
The actual paper: https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...

The study found an effect size of zero in the cloth mask cohort, and an 11% difference in the surgical mask cohort. Effect sizes that managed significance were just barely significant, at a p-value of 0.043. Also, the researchers didn't do any baseline serology, so it's quite difficult to know if there was a starting bias influencing the final results. It's also difficult to know the degree to which the non-blinded nature of the study and voluntary seroprevalence testing biased the outcome. At such small effect sizes, questions like these matter a great deal.

Nevertheless, it is encouraging that someone actually bothered to do a proper RCT of masking as "protection for others", and this study has several points that should be widely communicated (e.g. the ineffectiveness of cloth masks). However, I would not say that "masks passed their test" is really one of them...these results are pretty mediocre.

Vinay Prasad of UCSF has made an excellent summary of the results of the Bangladesh RCT, and I recommend it strongly:

https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1435679462142607361
Early attempts often fail because the technology just isn't there.

When the iPhone came along, it needed no new technologies that didn't exist elsewhere. It was a better overall design that integrated existing things. However, it would not have been successful if attempted in 1995 or 2000. Too early.

The kind of thing that I'm complaining about is when a technology exists, is already mass-market elsewhere, but certain vendors just refuse to sell it to you in other markets. Often for absurd reasons, such as artificial market segmentation, or a perception that some things are "enterprise" or for "content creators" and hence all associated products need an extra zero or two in their price.

Do 4K and even 8K OLEDs exist? Yes!

Do OLEDs with the PPI (resolution) of a typical PC screen exist? Yes!

Do 120 Hz OLEDs exist? Yes!

Can you buy this combination as a 24-32" PC monitor? No!

Can you buy this combination as a 48" or larger television? Sure!