skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beside the IP the copycat kb apps are nefarious for the app store users but I get it, Apple does not care about its users, it just pretends to when it suits their interests...
“Look around for a proportionate personal vehicle—some large, flat, aerodynamically suitable piece of wreckage. Mount it and ride, cowboy”

Given that you woke up after falling 20,000 feet, anything that in itself is “aerodynamically suitable” will be high above you by now (1) or, if it dropped of before you started falling, be miles behind you. Even that tightly packed parachute likely has lower terminal velocity, and will be out of reach by now.

I guess your best (not one with good odds, but still best) bet is an airplane door with an uninflated glide that you can tie yourself to, remove from the door, and then inflate.

(1) you can see that with rain showers: it’s the smaller droplets that hit the ground last
A new chip foundry entirely paid with tax payers money, and where the profits will go to a private corporation? (the 'socialize losses, privatize profits')

https://twitter.com/EIF4eu/status/1438041794940395523

"The @EU_Commission announced a new European Chips Act, in order to jointly create a state-of-the-art European #chip ecosystem including production."
Because you may have forgotten that you still have a choice? The rider (mind) is pretty weak compared to the elephant (animal), but still strong enough to convince itself its' thoughts are correct. Thoughts beget feelings, watch them. There is always light at the end of the tunnel.
done! Is there a way to put an auto reminder to read it just a minute before the accident happens?
I'm wondering if those copycat and scam apps still available in App Store?
Also another note is that I believe sooner or later regulators will come after them.

And after what they've shown today they'll have only themselves to blame and what they've shown today.

Unfortunately whole community will suffer because of them being insufferably arrogant.
In that case, I believe they actually hired the guy that did that tweak.
Disagree. A finely crafted but ultimately false story can be actively harmful. A young person may think that they are not of the same caliber as "the greats" and cannot make their mark on a field, which would discourage them from trying. All the while in reality "the greats" were never as great as the historians later depicted them. "Come on in, collaborate, and make a difference" would be a much more positive message and wouldn't be any harder to explain than what amounts to the creation of personality cults.
Maybe I'm missing something about this - but the money you get from selling stock isn't income.
Another great way to improve the environment is biking for trips below 5-10 miles. This carbon offset would do laps around car ownership.
Pascal permits a null production for the statement grammar.

simple-statement =
empty-statement
| assignment-statement
| procedure-statement
| goto-statement .

empty-statement = .

from http://www.pascal-central.com/iso7185.html#6.8%20Statements (ISO 7185 Pascal)

In practice the separator-vs-terminator distinction mostly shows up in if-statements:

if foo then
bar
else
baz;

I believe that anywhere else in a statement context, you can put in as many extra ';' as you like and it won't make a difference. And of course you can drop the final ';' before 'end' or 'until'.
FreeBSD (and all BSDs for that matter) have pretty good networking stacks besides any new recent-gen WiFi.
It's not expensive if you're not paying for it. Immigration administration flies people from the border to the interior for processing and release.[0]

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which turns over border crossers to ICE after arresting them, has begun flying migrants to other cities for processing and is releasing them directly into communities without going through ICE, saying their own facilities are at capacity." [1]

[0] https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/ICE-says-780-...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-mi-state-wire...
Europe’s Climate Lesson for America. As wind power flags, energy prices soar
Meh. The problem is FlickType requires network access during use. The App store licensing is ok with keyboards, it's not ok with keyboards that get network access. This, Apple perceives as a major privacy issue-- one for the possibility of keylogging, but also for the broader possibility of the always-on logging that the weather apps are infamous for.

edit:
Sorry, I didn't include the source, the Developer License Agreement. Here's a link (relevant section on page 23) --
https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/terms/apple-de...
It did. You only had to approve the permission of you wanted to use the extra features.
It's an editorial. Related thread: Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing (wsj.com)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28511524
So did anyone test the nuke and the fridge?
It is only a skin for Safari, Chrome too.
That’s most of their open source stuff. And probably most of their closed source too.
I read your two linked comments, and am still not clear on what you mean.

Are you suggesting that we use an extension/addon for Firefox or Chrome for generating ones site from .md over the thread-starting rust binary? If so, for what reason?

In the second comment you suggest "listing transformations" "and then have a machine perform those steps". We must have different views on "damn specific".

I'm not demanding anything. You posted something that was immediately downvoted, and asked why, and I spent time outlining a possible explanation. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm not, but another perspective rarely hurts.

You do you, we all strive to be understood.
> ... and immediately had to reflexively reject it so it wouldn't sink in.

I am not convinced by the apocalyptic prophesy that billions of people will be living in 35 C wet bulb temperature soon ...

If I were to be convinced that such a scenario is likely, you'd have to also convince me that creating a global system of central planning is the right thing to do which is what these NPR types want.

Even carbon pricing and carbon markets, the least intrusive measure on the table, require some central authority to decide the right amount of CO2 to be emitted. Since anything and everything useful we do requires emitting CO2, that ties all our futures to central planning.
Will they do something about the fact that when YC (to put a very random example) invests, they ask the recipient to move to US as EU regulatory environment is extremely hostile to startups?
My original comment suggested simply that the claim that wearing masks around children would harm them requires evidence. But the comment I was responding to here made the claim that the harm caused by masking in front of children is unknowable. I submit that if a harm is truly unknowable then we may as well treat it as no harm, since in this case common sense tells us that children are adaptable and resilient. But please, if you have a reasonable estimation, do share.
To paraphrase THHGTTG:

What to do if you find yourself falling from a great height: consider how lucky you are that life has been kind to you so far. If life hasn't been kind to you so far, which is not unlikely given your current circumstances, consider how lucky you are that it won't be bothering you much longer.
I wonder why the advice if you're still on a row of seats is to ditch it. Whilst heavier, it may also be wider. I guess it's the ratio of mass to surface area (× drag coefficient) that matters, and if the thing you're attached to's mass-to-surface-area ratio is lower, you should keep holding onto it.

As long as holding onto it doesn't result in you orienting your body away from presenting the most area to the oncoming air. Don't hold onto a beach ball for example.
Ah yes, in the US they can't occur the risk of "fumes" from an affordable electronic device, that's why they need to charge people a year's income for a minor emergency room visit.

Never mind the fact that for millions in the US the air is toxic, the water is full of lead, and the food full of agro-toxins. But they are lucky, because the FDA makes sure medical devices don't release any accidental fumes and they only cost 2 or 3 magnitudes more than they need to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
At this point with chip shortages it’s in EU’s interest to attract businesses to build it. Even if it costs us to build it, overall we’ll benefit from it. How much is lost due to stopped Audi plants?
Of all the institutions to promote a uncensorable web it is the EU?!

Talking about Gaslighting.

Who knows, it could be a gentle attempt at keeping talent from leaving, or FOMO because every other important nation is doing crypto-stuff and lastly, and naturally, the sheer incompetence of this overextended bureaucracy where one tentacle doesn't know what the other tentacles want to ban
Creator here.

The Doctave CLI is more like MkDocs or Docusaurus in that it supports a docs-as-code workflow. It takes your Markdown files and generates a pretty documentation site from them. It's more batteries-included and opinionated though: it has limited customizability by design, so that you don't have to wrestle with plugins or spend time bikeshedding themes. You just install Doctave (a static binary), write your docs, and host the site on e.g. GitHub Pages.

For an example site, the docs for Doctave can be found at https://cli.doctave.com

There is also https://www.doctave.com which is a dedicated host for Doctave documentation sites. It's aimed at teams that want to do docs-as-code, but still want to have all their docs centralized and searchable under one roof. This is closer to GitBook.com, but Doctave still uses a docs-as-code approach instead of GitBook, which is mostly used through a WYSIWYG editor and is closer to a traditional knowledge base system.

[Edit: formatting]
Now that was epik
It's disappointing to see this project, like many other decentralized web projects, has tunnel vision with respect to "cool technologies". The real distributed web is not non-web protocols, blockchains, or the like. The real distributed web is THE WEB HTTP servers and every single individual running their own web server to host their content (and then syndicate on whatever walled gardens are most profitable after).

Connections are fast enough. Computers are fast enough. Self hosting is entirely viable and it cuts the gordian knot that is the content moderation problem. If it's a static HTTP site then there are almost no attack surfaces; it's magnitudes safer than running JS from an arbitrary site in your browser.

These non-web protocols do not dencentralize. Lets start with IPFS. It's a great idea but unfortunately, like other security/anonymization layers, it relies mostly on centralizing gateways to actually let people access content. Additionally it is design to disassociate people from their files. Not a great start.

WebRTC is just the sickness of modern browser and in-browser "app" architectures causing them to re-implement what already exists in the host OS. But this time in the browser, the most insecure piece of third party code running software there is.

And blockchains like etherium aren't even worth talking about until they actually do switch over to proof of stake like they've been talking about for the last decade and never doing. And even then it directly involves monetary transactions which is sure to make thing suck for everyone.

No, the decentralized web is the decentalized web. And it's easy to be a part of it.
Seems quite meta that the term for this was taken from Apple's software. Sherlocked effectively means replaced and forgotten.
I think there are better approaches than this.

1) Setup a VPN via wireguard and only expose that random udp port. That way only a single UDP port is exposed and port-scans become infeasible.

2) Setup 2fa via libpam-google
Correct - the redundant semi-colon denotes an empty statement.
TeX doesn't do this automatically, but is rare to see "rivers" in TeX produced publications due to the superiority of its paragraph building algorithm.
I already made my point. That, if I have a choice, I’d mildly prefer to wait a few years before taking a new type of medicine.

I’m taking my second dose of Pfizer tomorrow (I explained the expedience of this in my first comment). I’m not some frothy anti-vaxxer. I just have a preference for tried and tested methods over the cutting edge.

I also don’t sign up to beta software when there’s a stable or LTS release that meets my needs.
No the app itself, the book collection interface: wooden shelf with books on it.
A small change in tax policy isn't going to make the difference in owning a home in the bay area. The problem there is the price of housing.

Yes, somebody making 400k in Palo Alto isn't rolling in stacks of cash (though you are certainly doing a lot better than the grad students making 30k). But this sort of "hey but in this extreme edge case the policy is sort of frustrating" argument is consistently overused to prevent reasonable policies (see estate taxes and farms for a classic example).
Wow funny to read that after I just read that Solus was considering moving to EFL after being dissatisfied with GNOME's direction.
> the sheer incompetence of this overextended bureaucracy where one tentacle doesn't know what the other tentacles want to ban

Tell me, which Murdoch newspaper have you been binging on?
That omits the second half of the trend analysis by Our World In Data. The decades-long drop in global hunger has in fact reversed in recent years, and it's misleading just to cite the preceding decades of progress without any mention of its recent reversal:

However, over the last few years, the total number increased to around 663 million in 2017. This increase in hunger levels are largely a result of increases in Sub-Saharan Africa (where rates have risen by several percentage points in recent years) and small increases in the Middle East & North Africa. The UN FAO have linked this increase in undernourishment in particular to the rising extent of conflict-affected countries (which is often a leading cause of famine), and compounded by climate-related factors such as the El Niño phenomenon (which can inflict both drought and flood conditions).
They're about to get two scoops of California Soul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Unfair_Competition_...
IPFS is pretty awesome, and the ideas it builds upon like a Merkle tree DAG are really cool. I love the idea of DApps or Decentralized apps. I've played with some cool projects like MetaMask etc. But I really don't like the idea that all (most?) DApps are based on Ethereum and require huge amounts of Gas to run. Can't we have DApps without Blockchain/Ethereum?

I know IPFS doesn't use Ethereum, and neither do things like SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt, based on the gossip protocol) but the biggest ecosystem of DApps is based on Ethereum and requires gas...
Yes, Oliver Burkeman is on my list of "Read or buy anything he writes"

His book "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking" is one my favourite books
Missouri cave with ancient Native American drawings sold at auction
Jupiter got smacked by a space rock; an amateur astronomer caught it on camera
It may not be earned income but it’s income. Capital gains.
What's a bit more annoying is the superuser ownership of the public schema in the newly created DB.

Nothing that can't be fixed by removing the public schema from the template DB, though...
There are enough swiping keyboards around now that it would be tricky to get any patent on it surely? Definitely seems like a dick move but "tech company copies good feature that isn't legally protected" is not exactly uncommon in this industry, if anything it's encouraged by most consumers
Meet The Man Behind NASA and DARPA’s Warp Drive Programs
Handling and NVH tradeoffs. You can reduce tire pressure to combat these but a more substantially built tire will succumb to heat related early failure more easily if you do that. Also money. Tires with more stuff in them and more exotic stuff in them are more expensive because that directly translates to more manufacturing steps.
I don't believe that you can manually moderate platforms at this scale. Even with the hybrid model of some manual moderation, I've read a lot of articles on the content they're forced to deal with crushing their mental health.

Add to that politics intervening threatening regulation unless they're allowed to tilt the scales. I can't even imagine how endlessly complicated that gets.

I've been debating this question internally for a while and also the question of algorithms. Subjectively speaking it seems to me that it's just as herculean of a task to come up with an algorithm that provides quality content to just about any user. I've tried some of these "alt-tech" sites/servies that claim to have no feed algos other than popularity and even the ones that have a few quality channels on them have their front pages flooded with all sorts of cooky, weird, bad material.

This is not a defense of Facebook (or Twitter), just some thoughts I had for a while now.
> In this case "consumer" is better off so seems like market works as intended.

How is the consumer better off when a choice for them has been removed? If Apple's keyboard is superior, then consumers will automatically chose that and not buy this guy's software. How is this "nanny state" behaviour by Apple justified?
Juniors get less complicated and more well known tasks, but the effort involved is still high. Like digging a hole, everyone can do it, but its still hard.
government is our current paradigm. There could be way more distributed ways to keep all this stuff safe. Do not think it is the only paradigm. It is the only one we lived in.
Tangential, but one thing I learned from dense computer history book The Dream Machine is that the term "von Neumann architecture" is improperly assigning credit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

von Neumann simply described the work of Eckert and Mauchly on the ENIAC in a written report. And his name was on the report which made people think that he came up with the idea, which was false. It also resulted in a patent dispute -- it's interesting to imagine what would have happened if the concept had been patented. The book goes into detail on this.

The wikipedia article also talks about Turing machines as a precedent that store data and code in the same place. But ironically I'd say that probably gives him too much credit! I think a large share should go to the people who designed a working machine, because it's easy to say come up with the idea of an airplane; much harder to make it work :) And to me it seems unlikely that the Turing Machine, which was an idea created to prove mathematical facts, was a major inspiration for the design of the ENIAC.

Finally, even though the author of this web page has his own credit dispute, I appreciate this elaboration on the credit assigned to Turing.
about halfway down remember to shout "so far so good!" in case anyone is listening.
well, we do have u.s. state governments putting vigilantism into law, and making sure the victims of this vigilantism pay the legal bills of the vigilantes, so at this point, i’m not sure we can clutch our pearls over something which after all these years has become routine (i.e., leaks)
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> just so that we could all be happy right now

To be honest, I'm quite happy about big companies revealing their ugly real face. And some people might benefit from such a reality-check.
Nice write up! By pure coincidence I asked GitHub for this feature 2 weeks ago [1] and they confirmed it was in the works.

[1]. https://twitter.com/micahhausler/status/1431350884810821637
If you want to talk about brainwashing, have you considered how the company you work for puts a penalty on your efforts? Their literal model is paying you less than the value you provide and recording that difference as profit. The rate they collect is often much greater than 10% of your efforts.
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US is quite close for the top 10 cities (~1 million 'too many' people in New York, 200k too many in San Diego, Austin and Dallas), but there are FAR too many cities with a population around 250-500k

England would be surprisingly close, if London had been half the size it currently is. If you took half the population of London and distributed it proportionally out among the rest of the country then you get quite close to a Zipf law distribution.

France doesn't really follow Zipf law for its 5 largest cities, but cities 6-15 follow quite closely.

Australia I 'weird' in that it's two largest cities are basically the same size, but if we ignore Melbourne for while the next few cities line up quite nicely before we start seeing a much faster drop off in city population than Zipf's law would predict

Thailand is way off, since it has 1 massive city followed by 10 cities of more or less the same size.

So yea, no country follows exactly, but it's closer in many cases than you might expect. Plus comparing the actual distribution to Zipf's law is an interesting way of comparing urbanization in different countries
> We show that many important and widely-used NGS algorithms can be made up to 160× faster than their Python counterparts as well as 2× faster than the existing hand-optimized C++ implementations

It seems it's better to think of this particular claim as "we made a C++ algorithm that is 2x faster than the previous SotA C++ algorithm" (with the help of a heavily optimized DSL).
> I fully support Eleftheriou on this just for the principle, but if I were in his place I would have agreed at a very large sum from Apple (even lower from what I had in mind) just so that we could all be happy right now ;-)

Seems like Apple has a very anti-competitive position, no?

To me this goes all the way back to the walled garden argument. Apple sat on, what some may consider, a straw man arguing that they couldn't deliver security to their customers without it. Fast forward all these years and Apple's walled garden seems to be failing rather regularly for the trifecta of their: users, developers and the system in general. Users get less choice in the app store when Apple wants to compete directly, developers with good ideas who aren't willing to sell out to Apple will pay the price of their livelihood drying up over night if you don't give Apple what they want and finally we get things like no-click zero days on a routine basis these days.
> Macklin, an 18-year veteran of obesity medicine and coauthor of the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines, is referring to his two years of experience treating over a thousand people with obesity using the relatively new drug semaglutide.

Sadly, another intervention pushed by Big Pharma. Selling you a future of unhealthy dependency.
It is perhaps useful to consider the entirety of the disclosure, however, in that it would let you know that by pressing "reject all", it appears that you are allowing all their listed purposes: they claim legitimate interest for every purpose they list. Reading further, after scrolling through one list of around 700 partners, you would also find a second list of what appears to be around 700 other partners, with, it appears, likely around 300-400 legitimate interest switches, all defaulting to on.
the limit should be not causing damage to others. Regulations just put a higher barrier to enterpreneurs.

It is not a good idea to regulate all the time when in fact every regulation could effectively be a wall.