skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a recommendation, but this is a thing - "ESP8266 Adds WiFi Logging To IKEA’s $12 Air Quality Sensor" https://hackaday.com/2021/07/24/esp8266-adds-wifi-logging-to...
> Can you please elaborate on that? I thought the free edition of Qt was open enough to be the right choice for writing fast multiplatform code. Did they change anything wrt licensing, or there are technical issues?

The minor releases are free only until next major one is out. After that, further minor releases are proprietary-only. I.e. that means right now, no free updates to 5.x anymore, if you want maintained release, only 6.0 is an option.
It does not match my experience. My lightning connectors wear off - it is only a matter of time. It has never ever happened to any on my USB-C cables.
What is special is the possibility of growth - what a cat can be is very limited compared to what a human can be.

Your reference to the Matrix is flawed in that you assume the "real" world is somehow not "fabricated", but it actually is via your sense perceptions. ;)
Great, when are you releasing the NFT? :^)
This is true; I do reluctantly pay for Spotify. But that'll always be the case with more equitable, less profitable, ergo less well-funded alternatives. And it has been consistently (slowly) improving over the years. Worth supporting imo
This argument does not make any sense , it's not even standard across all the iPads. They haven't done anything to make it a standard.
For 5€? I would disagree. I live in Frankfurt, Germany and I don't get a lot for this price and I can't live off Döner Kebap or stuff like that. Healthy options are around 10€ or roughly $12.
Lots of professionals (e.g. Data Journalists) still do those finishing touches in tools like Adobe Illustrator.

Here's a NYT tool to convert d3.js graphics to SVG to allow manual editing: https://github.com/NYTimes/svg-crowbar
As a long time Firefox user, from when it was still called Phoenix, I reluctantly and recently switched to Opera on Android. Firefox crashed several times a day, text input and rendering was messed up, no page refresh, limited extensions ... The list went on.

It's still my main desktop browser which I love. Other than sharing the name Firefox, the Android version has nothing else in common with it sadly.
The TL:DR of this article seems to be "You'll never be able to make big enough bioreactors while keeping it clean enough - even a single spec of dust kills everything".

But I think that's not true. As long as you can seal the bioreactor and heat it, you need not worry about contamination.

Just put all the ingredients in, heat it up to boiling point for a few hours, cool it down, and then add your single starter cell.

The bioreactor can be as big as you like - a plastic lined artificial lake could be a good starting point.
Micro Front ends don’t exist
Archaeologists See Ancient Teotihuacán with Aerial Mapping Tech
Now talk to some Smalltalk developers...
>What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?

There are currently more than 1 Billion active iPhone worldwide, even at one lightning cable per iPhone that equates to 1 billion lightning cable in use. And you have iPad and other accessories. I would not be surprise if there are more than 2 Billion Lightning cable currently in use.

Seems wasteful to abandon 2 billion cables? Although I suppose Apple could stop shipping cables as well. And only include a Lightning to USB-C adopter.

Not to mention lightning is a better design and higher quality cable than USB-C. Apple could mandate MFi for iPhone USB-C charging as well, but that sort of defeat the purpose of USB-C?

Or even better if EU could mandate USB-C quality and standards. Say not to crappy USB-C cables. Which would be even better than forcing USB-C on devices.
There is a significant dissonance there for sure. For example, most people would say that some wars are justified ethically, yet they might change their mind completely if a family member is killed in one. Emotional impact can be a significant part of what you deem ethical. Yet you can't structure broad ethical "rule sets" based on subjective trauma or experience.

The relationship between rationality and emotions when it comes to ethics is really complex, and since it's in the realm of philosophy I don't think there are any clear cut answers.
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Great write-up!

There's one small typo:

> Uploads us the existing LiveView WebSocket connection

"use"
Keep the cables, and buy Lightning-to-USB-C dongles that will inevitably show up in the market?
I can't add much to this really.

The Qt Company obviously don't think app developers using slightly old versions of their software provide any value to their shareholders, even though you're helping to grow the broader Qt ecosystem (libraries available, product awareness, knowledge sharing, growing the job market, etc).

As far as the Qt company are concerned if you're a FOSS app developer, and not on bleeding edge Qt 6 and actively contributing bug reports (i.e. acting as their outsourced QA), then you're just a worthless leech.

The feeling is the Qt library is only FOSS at this point because their hands are tied contractually by the KDE foundation.

This has lead the KDE foundation to create a surprisingly active fork of Qt 5.15:

https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/commits/kde/5.15

which is now the default Qt 5 base package on Arch Linux:

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages...
as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is mentioned it reminded about "Kesari" - a movie about Battle of Saragarhi i watched recently (it is on Amazon Prime for example)
The comment now says "micro USB-B", which is in fact the previous de-facto standard before the type C family.
Multiple points of entry to a SQL database is the root of all evil if I’ve ever seen it.
If you can buy one. I think they stopped making them a year or so ago.

I've heard the DACs on the Chromecast audios are pretty good, so should be plenty hi-fidelity for most people's needs.
Thanks to homonyms, haku is a lot of things.
- 吐く is to vomit, but also to emit, confess, etc.
- 履く is to wear
- 掃く is to sweep
- 拍 is a beat or a mora
and there are plenty more.
Wonder how Singapore fares ...
But that's the thing, who will price those negative externalities?

Anyone in a poor country (with access to fertile land and water of course), with little to no education, will always be able to raise animals without a lab.

Basically for it to have a real impact over plant based meat, it will have to be cheaper then cattle meat - else it will just become luxury food for those who can afford it.
Greenwald kind of reminds me of Anakin taking a knee in front of the emperor in Revenge if the Sith. It's not really convincing but he's doing what's expected of him. It's sad what happened to my "heroes" of the early 2010s.

To get a general idea about his motivations and his shift in allegiance, this piece is a good start: https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-glenn-greenwald-the-new-mas...

Quote:

> Intercept editor Roger Hodge theorizes that money is probably behind at least some of Greenwald’s adventures in right-wing media.
>
> “He needs subscribers and he’s giving people what they want, which is hatred and rage,” Hodge told The Daily Beast. “He’s tapped into the rage machine. He understands that there’s no engagement like rage engagement.”
Yes, and superimpose signals on the power connection, I suppose.

The only problem I see with this is that fiber optic cables are physically less robust (you can't bend them as much).
If citizens care about the environment they will stop buying Apple products. They don’t, hence they don’t care about the environment. Why make laws that go against the citizen wishes?
Interesting!

Link with more info: https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6938/...
The law introduced by the EU commission also addresses this. They don't want chargers to be included by default anymore exactly because of this.
Show HN: Jq Play in the Browser via Web Assembly
I, and many others, use jq play[0] a lot to craft queries.

However, jqplay.org sends everything to a back end behind the scene, so it can be slow for big input json, and not great for privacy.

Someone recently integrated jq compiled to web assembly in aioli.js[1], so I decided to make a jq play clone that runs in the browser.

It does not support sharing a query, but it's minimal, and does what I need for now.

[0]: https://jqplay.org/

[1]: https://github.com/biowasm/aioli
No more along the lines of Star Trek 2.0
> There's a reason we have a chain of trust and authority leading all the way up to the supreme court and not just "yolo, SFYL."

I partly agree with the argument, but i sincerely hope "your" supreme court will never be responsible for Internet governance. For what it's worth, i sincerely hope "my" constitutional council (France) will never be responsible for that either. Both are equally corrupt and reactionary entities, and i personally don't have any sort of faith in any Nation State whatsoever, as these entities were formed and architectured to oppress people and promote elites.
>>> That's because of EU regulation.

I am interested in that (because the "secret history" of many market driven change often ends up being a regulator in one influential area made a good decision - the usual example being California and car pollution standards)

Edit: just to say I am not commenting either way on the EU here, or on regulators in general. I am just interested if there was a clear point in USB standards process that EU intervention made a difference.

If so it would be useful to know their track record in this when judging this situation.
The same reason why there are regulations about pollution in general.
I think that the idea of the USB-C port on the iPads is to connect external devices. These are more likely to have a USB-C <-> something (e.g. USB-C -> USB-[micro|C|A]) cable that people already have lying around, as opposed to lightning -> something cable.
I got a Ginni [0] like… 2 years ago, and set it up as a chorded keyboard. I've had diagramming the layout (based on Colemak, and trying to follow some kind of "real layout logic") as a pending task for these two years, I may have even lost the source code files but have a pencil-and-paper diagram hanging on my corkboard. It's a fun gimmick, and surprisingly easier to use (for non-coding) than expected.

[0]: https://www.gboards.ca/product/ginni
The Lightning port is a piece of shit in terms of capability as implemented.

The ancient 30-pin iPod port was actually capable of better video output than Lightning. Read Panic's analysis of just how shitty Lightning is: https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...
A little off topic but people like Kurzweil and Moravec have always made fairly sensible predictions that we'd get AGI around 2030 plus or minus a bit. The fact that some fools said it would be a piece of cake in the 70s or whenever doesn't really prove it's a myth.
There is already type inference in Python type tooling.
Looking for Tim Cook's contact I believe in Six degrees of separation
As many of you know, there was an insider leak at Apple recently. And we have a solution LeaksID (leaksid.com) that could help solve this problem in the company. We made our patented technology of invisible marking. If somebody takes a photo or a screenshot of the confidential document with these marks, LeaksID will identify the leaker without fail. Question. Do you have any ideas on how to write about this to Apple?
> What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?

It's the $25 lightning cable, which is literally engineered to break.
With its touch back panel, this is the virtual keyboard the PS Vita has always been waiting for.
I don't believe this, for two reason:

one, from an energy perspective, there's a lot of non meat involved in growing an animal that's jut not there when growing only a muscle. All the energy the animal spend on growing and sustaining brains, lungs, a digestive tract etc is unnecessary to the artificial meat, so there's some margin for industrial production costs.

second, government may decide to force consumer hand imposing taxes and levies on livestock, if the climate situation gets bad enough
Micro-USB is also execrable junk.
You could try regional Australia, like Hobart, or Western Australia:D
They had flops, meh versions / releases and good ones stability wise. Just as any other major IDE (or product for that matter).

I own Delphi and still nothing beats it productivity wise for desktop applications. I successfully used Lazarus as well to develop Raspberry Pi based GUI software that controls various electronic gizmos(debugging on Pi was unstable but I've managed).

For products that do not have GUI (or using browser for front end) I stick to C++.

Embarcadero's pricing / marketing though does suck big time. Well, the only product that comes close to Delphi for GUI development is QT and their licensing and pricing sucks even more.
I’m not sure I follow, care to elaborate? Is the Hoskinson family an ‘Old-Money’ fortune from feudal times or something?
> it's just slower to write a Rust program, because the memory management is much fiddlier.

Really depends on what kind of programs do you write. I found that my Rust development gets slowed down only because I have to spend time to create the proper types. Memory management and lifetime problems are very few in my practice (but I can agree that they can swallow a time -- only when you are new though).
You can see the same pricing scheme with all of these "batteries included" niche products, from Xojo to LispWorks. It looks like the sweetspot is around $1,500/year, sometimes lower, sometimes higher.

I still think they are wrong, though, and these companies would make way more money if they'd cater to the masses at a price range of $30 to $100 per major version (depending on the version/features). In the VST plugin market, price ranges were comparably high until companies figured out that the mass of hobby musicians is more lucrative. Now products are basically on eternal sale, prices reduced from 50% to 95%.

In the VST market increased competition forced companies to lower prices during sales. Maybe the lack of competition prevents the same from happening to IDE companies.
If you need a fast free vpn for non sensitive usage, you can use cloudflare 1.1.1.1 app on Android and there is a desktop version I think.
I currently work with a licensed C++ Builder, which uses Delphi libraries.

Because of lackluster examples of C++ code, I have to look through Delphi code several times a day on the internet and when I'm debugging.
I think this may be a matter of different expectations.

When I moved to Sydney 3 years ago and picked up a job within a week writing JavaScript at $130k + super (£80k then, £70k now the exchange rates have shifted a bit), I was very happy to be paid >2.5x what I'd been earning in the UK.

If you're already on $180k + super (£95k), then you're already extremely well paid almost anywhere outside the USA.

Regarding technologies: JavaScript/Python/C#/Java, well, you've just listed the most common programming languages that everyone uses everywhere? If you want to do Clojure or F# or something exotic then you probably want a Fintech.

I share your pain about Spring though. Life's too short for that nonsense.

> The more interesting work I have seen has always been overseas companies opening up in AU.

That is where I ended up. But now I'm a Django developer which I suspect isn't what you mean by interesting.
> GP: Its really quite difficult to argue the software is really the compelling offering with Framework laptops.

That's a very different statement to "Apple has more person-years." In addition, by that measure, Windows is just as good, and works just fine on a Framework.
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CBeebies: Channel appoints George Webster as new host
I'm wondering what they would do to your lungs if you inhaled them...
Yes, I think so too. Previous comment I think meant that if making cultured 'flesh' is infeasible, we can switch to a diet that is vegetarian and feasible at scale.
Twitter doesn't have upvotes and I find it to be more addicting than sites with a upvote/downvote system. In a way, downvoting is still getting a response from a person, maybe that is why
> We each make our own choices.

yes we do, but the caveat is, we dont live in isolation from one another, so in cases such as covid, people being able to take "proven safe but unknown effectiveness" medications is a recipe for unintentional spread to others... this is the opposite of safe imo
But finally this happened. The issue has been around for years. I think (hope) this will dramatically improve the update situation on Android. I wonder though how close Fuchsia is for day-to-day use on current phones
My phd is in the physics of complex systems, so its not exactly this area but the arguments in the engrxiv paper linked in TFA seem robust to me. In my mind there is an abstract question and a concrete question which illustrates the hardness of the problem.

The concrete question is, were there historical examples which showed the feasibility of this kind of endeavor? I dont think so. In fact there is a recent counterexample. Biofuels. They were big in the last hype cycle. George Church, the Tom Knight of Harvard, got involved in Joule, which is now dead. Biofuels was a much simpler pipedream than todays lab grown factory and yet… we are back to designing batteries, which are far simpler than algae.

So after this bubble bursts, I predict that we will be putting our money in making jellyfish tasty. it will be a step up from making yeast or algae tasty for sure.

Another prediction would be uh the second coming of 6502… of amino acid manufacturing.

The abstract question is, is it possible to design a large scale self replicating machine that runs more efficiently than evolution can give us? Again, no historical examples.. but I see the current deep learning “success” as a victory for evolution, not design…

My guess is, if we want to make lab grown meat work we might as well solve the easier problems of immortality and general AI, first.
We could for example lower taxes for those that earn least while increasing water and soil quality regulations (with matching tariffs for imports). This would increase food costs, which would hopefully match the money that people gained through lower taxes.

Meat would then become slightly more expensive than plant, but also have a major benefit for products that don't use a lot of water or harms the soil. Aquaculture would get a big boost, as would alternative method of meat production. The use of farm animals as an ecological alternative to using machinery to keep land clear of unwanted vegetation has become a niche method, and increased water and soil regulations would indirect benefit such farming alternatives.
Looks great. When is the next part on Python coming up?
"900 million active iphones in use" - CFO Luca Maestri

14.26 Wh * 900000000 * 365 (days) = 4684 GWh/yr

46% = 2154 GWh/yr wasted energy

That's about the total energy output of Madagascar with a population of 27 million people.

There's a lot of reasons why the above numbers are wrong but I just wanted to highlight that at current efficiency, there would be a lot of wasted energy. :)
> With USB-C they would be restricted by the USB-IF.

Apple will still find a way to do what they want, especially given they play a non-trivial role in the USB-IF and provided significant resources towards developing USB-C in the first place.

I would like USB-C on my iPhone, but I think the biggest reason why Apple hasn't done it is just because of momentum, and that it _is_ a switch from the current situation.
At this point, I wonder if we are just being silly.

We are never going to stop this planet's deterioration while being on it. Maybe building nice, big and posh O'Neil cylinders and moving everybody and their cows there would be less expensive and depressing than trying to merely atenuate the billion of ways in which we harm the planet. Seriously!
Thanks for sharing, interesting
Some people already can and do this. See e.g.:

- Steve Mann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor)

- https://chordite.com
"Hello,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your account has been re-enabled."

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127021326/google-has...
> about a factor of 10 more is the usual rule of thumb

That's often a dishonest figure which ignores how land is actually used, such as:

- Much of the land used for animals (for grazing etc) is not suitable for growing human edible plants.

- We feed animals with plants that would otherwise go to waste. When growing corn, we only use the seeds. The whole rest of the plant (i.e. most of it) is feed to animals.
I feel like there's bigger fish to fry. There's more and more li-ion appliances and tools, most with proprietary chargers (think all the power tools), and in many cases no user replaceable battery packs (e.g. vacuum cleaners).

It really sucks that I need a new charger + battery if I want to use some bosch or dewalt tool instead of a ryobi or whatever I happen to have. And I can't use these tools' batteries to power USB devices..

I'm sure all these electric vacuum cleaners are a big lump of e-waste when the battery inevitably dies.

Phones have standardized pretty well. Apple is an outlier but I don't think that's a huge deal, and the cost of forcing them (and their users) to switch may be worse than the status quo.
> Epic will resubmit Fortnite to the App Store if you adhere to the plain language of the court order and allow apps to include buttons and external links that direct customers to other purchasing mechanisms without onerous terms or impediments to a good user experience.

That seems very reasonable, why wouldn't Apple be forced to comply with the court order?
When I last researched, most studies studying vegetarian diets for toddlers and young children showed clear deficiencies when it came to certain nutrients and delayed development due to this. So I'm not entirely sure I'd call it unhealthy.

That said, as an adult I do strive to heavily reduce meat and fish consumption and to adhere to a vegetarian diet 80% of the time but it's easier to manage for adults than for young children.
I think they made commitments to manufacturers to keep Lightning around for a certain period. Regardless of standardization Lightning is already showing its age, it’s limiting charging and sync speeds.
From Löb's Theorem to Spreadsheet Evaluation
EU basically said to manufacturers: Find a common ground for charging cables / chargers, otherwise we will simply regulate it. So all manufacturers apart from Apple agreed to use microUSB (at the time). Apple was still part of this, but decided to simply provide an adapter to microUSB.
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No winners either side. And of course no winning for their customers either.

I increasingly want nothing to do with battling corporate giants.
Always come with citations.
For the original yeah, but Frontier seemed an even bigger achievement by Braben alone. Last game I can remember fitting on a single floppy.
Looks interesting! Also, I like how the RPS review[1] ends with "it actually doesn't have a strong one-more-turn factor, and maybe that's a good thing", because that is actually what has been keeping me away from these games for years now

[0] https://mohawkgames.com/oldworld/

[1] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/old-world-is-almost-the-per...
> I hear right-on people mouthing the claims of white supremacists, apparently in total ignorance of their origins.

> We should be aware of this history, but without indulging what Simon Schama calls the “obscene syllogism”: the idea that because the Nazis promoted new age beliefs, alternative medicine and ecological protection, anyone who does so is a Nazi.

It's odd he does not call those (unnamed) claims false, only disparages their origins, while in the next paragraph cautions against exactly this kind of guilt by association.
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