skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. My experience with my printing project is that people are underwhelmed when I try to explain it to them. (Doesn't everybody print with an inkjet printer? Doesn't everybody print QR codes?) If I listened to what people said about it I would have quit a long time ago.

When I show people the results it's completely different: I show the cards to a 50-something woman and she swoons like a 10-year old girl. I could be envious of people who know how to draw and to paint, but this project has led me to not take no for an answer and not to "not do" something because I don't know how to do it.

One key to side project success is to look at what people aren't doing as opposed to what they are doing. I am a bit envious of this one:

https://gregdavill.com/blog/d20

It's not really that much harder than the other things people light up with LEDs but the icosahedral geometry is unique.

Whenever there is explosive and widespread technological progress (say the World Wide Web) the right question to ask is "What took it so long?" (futurists in 1970 predicted something like the web would arrive in 1980 and in the form of Compuserve, Videotex, it did, but few people noticed.)

One long-term project I have is to do a sketch comedy performance with a video-game character projected in a mirror (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost); personally I think video-game characters are "overdeveloped"; I don't need to design or code one, I can get it "out of the box" and only need to code up the behavior. For whatever reason, these haven't escaped video games. That project is a personal moonshot for me because it involves the difficult problem of being funny, never mind reverse engineering a once-patented technology a German company used to deploy film mirrors. I was planning to do it in two years at first but my current schedule is five.

There are many things like that where all the pieces are ready but nobody has put them together. That's how you make a side project that's interesting, not "learn a new programming language".
Answer: you just have a bigger time zone table, like https://www.netburner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Compara..., where you can see that A (which perhaps stands for Albany, N.Y.) is 14 minutes ahead of Washington D.C., and B (which is perhaps Baltimore, Md.) is 2 minutes ahead, so this rather fast train will arrive at 2:48pm (12:00 noon + 3 hours − 14 minutes + 2 minutes).

It’s really no different from the coarse-grained time zone system, just more complicated because you have much bigger tables.

(I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a picture of a railway’s time zone table from before the 1883 change to coarser time zones, sorted by station, with most deltas being one or two minutes, but I can’t find it now.)
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris…"
Orville Wright
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this report from UNGGIM shows that Federal mapping around the world is very inconsistant, missing parts are more common than you might think

https://www.isprs.org/documents/reports/The_Status_of_Topogr...
I've lived in Germany for 7 years and never once have I added a picture to my resume. It's been no trouble in getting interviews and job offers. I work in tech though. So the experience could vary depending on your industry
We use Delphi to develop and maintain a large Windows desktop application.

For that I think it's still pretty darn good.

I recently made a new module for our program, with ~300 input fields including custom search inputs, several grids and multiple 3-layer deep details (head-detail-subdetail). I got the UI elements down in less than two days, and had the whole module ready for initial testing in a less than a month, UI to DB.

This included a lot of smarts, overview/selection views and other custom dialogs, as well as configurable UI defaults like tabstops, required fields, field colors and default values which vary based on current process (think invoice vs credit note).

So yeah, for that kinda stuff it's still pretty great I think. You might want to buy some components, but Delphi itself is expensive so that shouldn't be a huge issue.

For the other platforms I'm less sold.

I've tried FireMonkey, which is their cross-platform UI framework, and it was tedious and the code did not fill me with confidence (3D math library was mixing various concepts etc). They've had some years to work on it since then, maybe things have improved. But you're forever stuck with non-native on all platforms.

The key issue for me is that if you're planning on writing an application with an expected lifetime of 10+ years, like we are, I feel uncomfortable relying on a closed-source tool chain.

Delphi works today, but I don't know where it'll be in 5 years time. I can most likely get it to compile in a VM, worst case, but will it generate the code I need?
This is already a change from previous legislation that effectively mandated micro-USB. So yeah, it can be done.
I've no expertise on the technical area, but if the headline says "will never be cost-competitive" in a climate change related story then that pretty much means that it does make sense economically, but that it requires taxes/subsidies to price in externalities.

Because, if it just plain didn't work, the headline would say "This just plain doesn't work".

If it was so inefficient in terms of carbon input/output that it would a net-negative, then the headline would say "This would work but not be helpful to climate goals"

So by a process of elimination, the headline indicates that it does work, and it does make economic sense, but that government intervention in the market will be required to get the best outcome for everyone.

Some people see this and think "okay, lets write some legislation to fix that", while other people see it and think "oh, well I guess the human race will just have to die out in some kind of mad-max apocalypse, because that's better than regulations that ensure the free market actually works as promised".
And they can skip your resume if they don't like your looks or skintone.
also "Enterprise" is misspelt as "Entreprise"
I wouldn't call it a states' rights issue, but it is an issue where states get to decide. In Indiana, the state lets it go county by county.

The argument for it kinda depends on where you are. Keeping in mind that humans are diurnal animals, take a look at this graph for your city: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco

Here, during the winter, daylight starts between 6:23 and 7:25 in the morning. In the summer, it's between 5:47 and 7:21 am. That's with DST. Without it, full daylight would come as early as 4:47 am.

That's more dramatic if you're further north. Take a look at Minneapolis: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/minneapolis

For them, winter daylight start between 6:28 and 7:51 am. Summer daylight starts between 5:26 and 7:26 am with DST. Otherwise, it would be as early as 4:26 am.

So basically, the more north you are, the more summer daylight comes very early in the morning. Given that humans are diurnal animals, and given that a lot of jobs depend on daylight (e.g., agriculture, construction), and given that we use a social definition of time to regulate a lot of coordinated economic activity, the question is: do we adjust the schedules or the clocks?

Certainly when DST was invented, adjusting the clocks was the only practical option. If we have too many light hours in the morning and too few in the evening, let's just swap the clocks by an hour. There aren't many clocks and you get everybody to do it at once, so no communication is necessary.

These days maybe you could replace it with seasonal hours set by every business on as they see fit, but that's an awful lot of schedule-adjusting and hours-checking that needs to happen to know if you can pick up coffee on your way to work. So personally, I'm for staying with DST.
Not to mention the inefficiency.
> They need to mandate the presence of a physical cable, otherwise Apple will drop the port and move to wireless charging.

I think the free market can take care of that. If you want a physical connector, just buy a device that comes with one.

You just might need to go to a place like Guitar Center (instrument store) to buy one. That's what I did when I needed headphones.
>individualist extremism

Really? Don't you think it's a little hyperbolic to call this personal choice "extremism"?

>We're all living on the same planet. So as long as we all share this one resource for our collective survival, other people's food decisions aren't "theirs"

I don't think you appreciate how dangerous such rhetoric is. Arguably far more "extreme" than allowing people to choose for themselves whether to eat meat. Every choice has a cost, how far are you willing to see people's quality of life destroyed to solve what are only potential future problems?
Effectively telling Epic that if they are serious about this issue, they need to batten down for a multi-year court battle and give up selling games in the meantime.
Oh well I never thought of it, nor read of it. Need to go back to books. Thanks for sharing!
… but Apple’s chargers have been USB on the charger side for ages (previously USB-A, currently USB-C). The easy availability of chargers that work with the phones did little to stop the complaints when they were unbundled.
I guess it depends on how far you want it to go. If electric sockets aren't standard then that creates bottlenecks in infrastructure interchangeability.

To me, I don't see why government has any business in USB. Bluetooth maybe since it takes up the air. But USB? It's bad enough that wall sockets haven't improved. Will we be stuck with USB-C long after its natural EOL?
>“Over 285 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through May 24, 2021. During this time, VAERS received 4,863 reports of death (0.0017 %) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.” [3] (the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive surveillance system managed jointly by the CDC and FDA [3]

How do we know that all or even most of these "events" are not coincidences but were a direct result of the vaccinations? VAERS are self reports, anyone can go and fill out a report and it will show up in the data. Just like FCC comments on net neutrality, no one verifies them.
The Matrix is coming...get plugged in.
It's complicated. Right now Apple makes $0 from Fortnite, if they allow them back they will at least get something. Don't let emotions get in the way of business- there is still money to be made. This feels petty on Apple's part unless they are using this to send a message to anyone else who wants to sue them.
I actually feel USB-B is a very robust plug. But it is just so large that most devices nowadays don't have the real estate for it.

The other advantage is that since it is so large, if you get dust and stuff in it you can often use something non-conductive to clean it out.
Remember that depending on your immigration situation and amount you saved you may have to pay a pretty large exit tax in the US.
In the future I might add multiple designs/templates.
I completely agree and I really doubt that it is the real reason, but it is something that Apple might still consider.
Brazil got rid of Daylight Savings Time two years ago. Initially I was against the idea.. Well now I love it. Feels more natural do deal with increase and decrease of sunrise and sunset as seasons change.
The first post, the lab alert from 7/21/21, withdraws the request for Emergency Use Authorization for the PCR test. The second clarification post explains why, in that the "CDC began distributing the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCOV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel to fill a gap. The wide availability of other SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests means that the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel is no longer filling an unmet need."
I have a unlocked booloader and I bypass SafeyNet just fine.
I worked (technically still work) with a fellow who was a real long term thinker, and kept bringing up La Sagrada Familia. He kept saying "I just want to build a software equivalent."

I showed him the demo 8088MPH, which took seven years to complete. He said, "Okay, that's the software equivalent of La Sagrada Familia".
That's quite the claim to make. I'd love to see the verified examples you have to back it up as well as statistics on how often that happens so we can adjust the reported values to get the true number of deaths.

But I'm not going to hold my breath on you being able to actually support your statement.
Lots of US cities used to have great public transit. They were all later 'fixed' to remove public transit and make life easier for cars.
TikTok trolls are creating deepfakes and deceptively editing real users’ videos
A novel low-effort comment showed a very conservative attitude of attributing facts while not providing a source of the information; perhaps intentionally, as the risk-benefit of lying on the internet drastically decreases.
You're absolutely right! You can trust that a community, given sufficient time, will act to protect itself in the long-term and thus individual users. This just might not always be the same as every user being maximally safe at every point in time.

Case in point that gets at both: malicious python and npm packages stealing credentials. They were caught and handled, but not before hitting some people.
World population in 1920 was presumably somewhere between 1.6bn and 2bn: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat... so 4-5x smaller than now.
wireless charging is less efficient and may even affect battery longevity.
Why? Apple hasn’t lost their 30%, and there’s no indication that they will.
Ah I see. You could still offer re-ordering even when sub-forms are expanded. The sub-forms are not that tall if I am correct.

Perhaps add outlines/borders around sub forms, so that users know what they belong to.

I know the page looks fresh & clean now, but it takes away from user friendliness IMHO. Anyway, just my 2c :-)
What is proprietary about Apples chargers? They sell USB-A and USB-C wall warts, and their devices happily charge on non-Apple chargers. Their laptop chargers are USB-C and have been for some time. I charge my MBP from a Lenovo power brick. The only proprietary part is the lightning connector.
> [..] Monero, which is designed to be far more difficult to trace than Bitcoin, whose blockchain has proven to sometimes allow powerful forms of financial tracking.

Powerful forms of financial tracking? God damn journos these days are fucking idiots.
Evolution of Web Performance Culture
The only sources for the claim are evangelic Christian websites, and this specific thread. This thread is actually one of the top results for the search now. I've spent a lot of time reading Wittgenstein, and reading about Wittgenstein. This was never mentioned in any credible source I've come across.
I'm sure Fortnite IAP would generate good money for Apple, but it's not enough to justify giving up the control they want to keep, rightly or wrongly.
> As for feminism, the western world spent trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives trying to bring gender equality to Afghanistan.

Was that why we were there? Was it really?
Searching for Ramadan in https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/asia and https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa is an interesting read.

Morocco textual history is at https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa#L628
and the implementation rules are at https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa#L903

Just above that is this bit:

# From Paul Eggert (2020-05-31):
# For now, guess that in the future Morocco will fall back at 03:00
# the last Sunday before Ramadan, and spring forward at 02:00 the
# first Sunday after two days after Ramadan. To implement this,
# transition dates and times for 2019 through 2087 were determined by
# running the following program under GNU Emacs 26.3. (This algorithm
# also produces the correct transition dates for 2016 through 2018,
# though the times differ due to Morocco's time zone change in 2018.)
# (let ((islamic-year 1440))
# (require 'cal-islam)
# (while (< islamic-year 1511)
# (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
# (b (+ 2 (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year))))
# (sunday 0))
# (while (/= sunday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7)))
# (while (/= sunday (mod b 7))
# (setq b (1+ b)))
# (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
# (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
# (insert
# (format
# (concat "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 3:00\t-1:00\t-\n"
# "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 2:00\t0\t-\n")
# (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
# (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
Ah you ruined it. it will all be downhill from then on
Does it count if no one ever complied to this legislation? Where are the micro-usb iPhones?
It was called the "peculiar institution" because (by then) it was peculiar to one portion of the country.
Wait, they want to have USB-C ports on plug chargers?

Guess I'm getting a bunch of USB-C to USB-A adapters to plug in my USB-A to USB-C cables.. :\
Thanks, and really happy you enjoyed it!

> The only thing I did not like was that for certain puzzles, such as the Ying-Yang one, coming up with an idea that will solve the puzzle is quite straight forward, but figuring out the parameters you used for some of the curves can take a long time.

Yeah, I know that's an annoying issue. I've been trying to think how to implement a good fuzzy judge, but so far everything I have will either forgive mistakes in small but important components or require a major restructuring of the game. Would be happy to hear if you have suggestions for that :)
It's not irrelevant to them (and anybody else who uses or wakes to daylight) coordinating with the rest of society, though. Which is the function of a standardized time. It didn't exist up until railroads were popular; before that each town set its own time based on solar noon.
P.S. This is all part of the broader "Right to Repair" laws, just at the software level...
Please explain where on your page it states that the Sars test detects flu at all.
Have to lug a usb stick around with you and guard it 24/7 for equivalent security?
Why would LE not do both?
Thanks for the info. Looks like it will indeed be dropped, [0] has some more details. I stopped using it because the whole cat-and-mouse game that is mentioned was too annoying for me as well, probably a lot worse for the dev.

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/magisk-development-continues-...
It isn't only a German surname but the German word for fox.
I am a huge proponent of sunset provisions, especially when legislating tech and things that correlate with tech advances.
I can confirm, that way is really easy. Here's my config:

https://www.pastery.net/yxbssn/
Not having a deep expertise on the technical difficulties of cultured meat, but let me point out something obvious: farmed meat is usually heavily sponsored by the public through taxes and it's toll on the environment, on healthcare, on the future, etc. is paid for by others.

The true cost of meat is far, far greater than what you pay for it. If this cost is ever charged to the consumer, then the comparison with cultured meat will look very different.
I don't think it is so much compute in every region as it is data storage there.

My company stores user data and deploys to most AWS regions. It's a big win for some companies to be able to have their data stay in a given area (esp the EU, but I've also heard Canada mentioned).
Sadly, non-iOS devices have way less security, so that's not an option. Spoken as a former user of Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Maemo and Meego. And current owner of Sailfish and Pinephone.

Network effects mean that some apps are only on iOS and Android. Of those two, only iOS has a net-effective security and privacy story, if used without iCloud.

The free market includes feedback from existing users. Microsoft learned that over time. Even Apple does, reversing course on keyboards and touch bar.
By the same author, whose role is described as "independent consultant": "Adverse health effects of 5G mobile networking technology under real-life conditions" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...!
I mean, technically, they can keep using the same connector (usb-c) but make extensive change to the underlying protocol making it required to buy an "Apple cable" for anything else than charging and maybe still respecting the U.E law.
You are right. I meant it more for the case stated in the article, where people don't know what to do with all the compost, so it ends up in the forest.
>When two sets of arbitrary non-sense rules collide!

I bet 2 VPs were trying to determine the direction for their teams.
AWS Cost Allocation Guide: Tagging Best Practices
Really, that's not what this lawsuit was about, and the courts aren't supposed to tip the scales based the size of companies, are they? It's clear we need new laws to deal with the problems at hand. The ruling seemed pretty even-handed based on the law, even if you disagree with it.
I don't think you're right here. Forests form soil

https://www.wri.org/insights/forests-absorb-twice-much-carbo...
If I can keep the cost down, I'm aiming for $100/unit, then I think I could sell quite a few. The nearest competitor, the Lantronix Spider, is $300+ if you can even find them.
Warranty laws in the EU (2 years mandatory) make this less of a problem - eventually a manufacturer must realize they'll make more money doing things right than replacing tons of fried returns.
this just makes me think of the German approach in Slavoj Zizek's random tangent into the ideology of toilets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs&t=47s
The problem is that after years of everyone pulling their own shit we finally have USB C. Yet it seems as if a dozen companies still do their best to remain incompatible in various ways.

No one wants USB C as permanent solution but the alternative hasn't worked out.
Jetbrains seem to be able to compete because they are building for the mass market. JBuilder is an exception. Delphi is a niche product still strongest for fast desktop app development which has a small market compared Rider (C#), PyCharm (Python), IntelliJ (Java), etc. which are all much larger markets.

The pricing was intentional which is different from saying someone "priced themselves out of a market" (which I take to be an unintentional act). They (wrongly) intentionally targeted both an enterprise and niche desktop development segment of the market who are not building mass market apps and could never escape from there because the value of Delphi diminished when Java, and especially C# became mainstream in the early 2000s.

This mistake has more complexity to it when you understand what what going on around Borland and the market in the late 90s. If you are looking at it now, then it just seems like an obvious unforced error.
That's what I would say too if in fact all I had was an Iranian cooperative, or Israelis on the ground.
He has "lost" $125 but gained the crypto, which might be worth more than $125 if the market goes up.
Micro USB became ubiquitous because Europe put forth a commission in 2009 to make it so. Before that every phone had their own weird charger. It was hell. Life got much better after 2009.

Guess who didn't participate? Apple. Because they weren't forced to. This time, they are, and life will get much better.

On American government, yea, it's hard to trust something that is bought and paid for by corporate America, Europe however has some balls in that department.
I think she's trying to say that Reddit should ban or seriously curtail outlinking (links to content that's not hosted by Reddit) and step up censorship of content that's uploaded to Reddit.

But like you said, it's incredibly incoherent and hard to figure out exactly what the point is.