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Looks awesome. Would love to see something like this for Django or Flask.
Just so I understand: they are creating a new company, shuffling all the liability on to them, who then declares bankruptcy, and J&J end up paying nothing?
Some are. ( HW engineer here). But most of them are artists.
My background is in automation and robotics; I studied system identification: a discipline where you would use mathematical means to identify a dynamic system model by observing input/output.

You treat the system as a black box and estimate a set of parameters that can describe it (e.g., Kalman filter).

I struggle to understand what's the fundamental difference between system identification and ML/AI. Anyone?

You ultimately have a bunch of data and try to estimate/fit a model that can describe a particular behavior.

It all comes down to a big optimization/interpolation problem. Isn't what they call "Learning" just really "estimating" ?

Then the more CPU/memory/storage you have, the more parameters/data you can estimate/process, the more accurate and sophisticated the model can be.
Look, I hate Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates as much as the next guy, especially so due to my politics, but the comparison between these guys and monarchies / dictatorships is misplaced.

Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Gates have all done _something_ to earn their money, whereas monarchies and dictatorships empower their rulers purely through shows of physical and governmental strength.

Like him or hate him, Bezos is not the ruler of this country, and has not obviously broken any law -- that we obviously know of of course.

There's a big difference IMO between earned wealth that makes you disproportionately richer, and unearned dynastic wealth. Almost every study on dynastic wealth in America shows that... no matter government policy.. it evaporates by the third of fourth generation. That's fine.
"I’ve tried posting a couple of Twitter threads myself, but both times I did it I found it awkward and confusing. Honestly, I don’t get why people do it. For the likes? For the shares?"

This seems quite disingenuous, you clearly 'get why people do it' you just iterated the reasons you tried it yourself ;p
politics aside, these are red flags for hostile working environments and will repel anyone with competence.
There seems to be alot of hype regarding epigenetics. Many of the grander claims seem to rest on thin evidence, and to the extent a phenomenon is real often given simpler explanations--cultural, genetic, or epigenetic--after everybody stops paying attention.
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Can you cite an example of left-wing news outlets playing "fast and loose" in a way that literally jeopardized the foundation of US democracy and incited mass violence?

Even if you think the investigation into Trump's ties to Russian influence was unjustified, it relied on democratically-elected representatives to impeach him, and it never undermined the rule of law itself.

I'm sure you can find examples with lesser consequences, but given the stakes, are those really relevant here?

It's easy to dismiss all such disagreements as being boiled down to partisanship, which is why it's more useful to look past the actions and focus on the outcome.

Violent rhetoric from politicians and their supporting news outlets has real consequences, and in this case the actions of one side are resulting in the potential for mass vigilante violence:

From Ethnic antagonism erodes Republicans’ commitment to democracy[1]

About half of all surveyed Republicans agreed with these points:

1. The traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.
2. A time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.
3. Strong leaders sometimes have to bend the rules in order to get things done.
4. It is hard to trust the results of elections when so many people will vote for anyone who offers a handout.

1. https://www.pnas.org/content/117/37/22752
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Ahh ok something that sparks interest here I'll try again.
Qt looks like the strongest candidate right now. I haven't started coding with it yet, so I don't know whether I'll embrace KML in my own code or go a more traditional route.

One thing that stands out as a potential limitation: Between C++ and the metaobject compiler, I have the impression that higher level language bindings for Qt are more difficult to create (and therefore more scarce) than bindings for C-based toolkits. The Python bindings seem widely used, so that's nice, but I don't know about Nim (which recently piqued my curiosity) or Rust (which is getting popular). I would rather not go back to C++; I used it a lot in the past, but it was never fun or respectful of my time.

On the desktop side, I'm leaning toward KDE. It was too heavyweight for me when I tried it ages ago, but recent Plasma releases seem to have lightened up quite a bit, and allow me to strip out much of the eye candy in favor of a more utilitarian experience. (It's still not what I would call lightweight, but it's closer than it was, and alternatives have been gaining bloat and closing the gap anyway.) LXQt seemed rough when I last checked, but if it ends up developing into something as nice as Xfce used to be, I'll definitely give it another try.

I also intend to keep looking out for new cross-platform GUI toolkits. I have noticed a few in recent years, mostly in the mobile space, but whether they will mature into well-designed cross-platform kits that cover most people's needs remains to be seen. It's not an easy task.
My guess: repeatedly zooming out and in again -- to look at the many parts of the whole to see how they all interconnect and interact to then wonder why and why not.
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> And it’s really jarring to have so many things in common and then discover they’re promoting the destruction of western values …

I dunno who your friends or acquaintances are, but if your view of them is that they want to destroy western values and your way of living, then that's a problem on you, not them. Most likely, they don't want to hurt you or your way of life... they just want to be able to live theirs, so I would suggest not approaching this is a problem of 'my friend basically wants to destroy my country'.

I mean on the other hand, if you're surrounded by people who literally want to destroy your country, well then I'd suggest moving, I guess. I don't honestly believe there's many parts of america, other than certain cult compounds, that would share that view though. More likely, you are the one reading ill intent into other's politics.
Makes perfect sense in a society that actually innovates and value is realized by concentrated founders. In an oligarch society, dictatorship, etc... its just old money fighting over oil fields for decades and even centuries which eventually do realize some dilution in ownership as families splinter.
Yes. You're just noticing?
Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is? (2019)
The URL might still be advertising and users might still not like it. No amount of wording could change that. Sometimes it's "not hackernews material", it can't be forced.
Does this work for SPAs?
That's because the demand is through the roof. They can't possibly produce enough cars to sell right now.
That's opposite my experience: I took an appointment a few weeks ago from my insurance agent (Texas) who wanted to review my existing insurance vs my needs. On the call I laid out that same logic -- I can afford repairs to my car out of pocket, so it doesn't make sense to insure it, so maybe I should drop it (just keep liability) -- and she agreed, and was happy to tell me the savings!

(I didn't go through with it on the call and maybe she would have put up resistance then, so who knows.)

Edit: From reading the source, it seems like the author didn't clarify that that was the logic he was using, or that he could afford the damage to his car out of pocket. Insurers are probably accustomed to people overextending themselves and skimping on insurance without being able to afford such things, which is risky and something agents have to head off early on.
Yes. As our time and energy is consumed by the corporations, our social needs - maybe "interfaces" - are all replaced with cheap mock-ups.

I’d like to think I’d have more commonality with those around me if they weren’t so damaged by a lifetime of, well, everything they’re exposed to and don’t know to try to resist.
In our current context, selectively there are disadvantages if you are smart.
Nothing would stop you from limiting yourself to apps that only use Apple's ecosystem, but what is the reason to stop others from installing apps that are using other ecosystems on their iOS devices?

I would certainly enjoy F-Droid for iOS.
What if the alternatives were PayPal, Amazon Pay, Google Pay, Steam, etc. ? Would you not similarly trust those payment processors?

Also, it should be telling that if you are using an App which only offers: Sketchy Payment Processor, that the app itself is sketchy, so just go use another app.
webOS in the Palm/HP Pre days and Maemo both had app stores. webOS had the App Catalog and Maemo built an app store around the apt package manager.

The difference is that Palm, HP and Nokia didn't take a cut, and the stores themselves were based on open protocols that allowed users to add their own sources for apps. That resulted in excellent things like PreWare[1] and, in Maemo's case, enthusiast run apt repositories.

It's entirely possibly to have safe and open app stores that don't follow Apple's model. Apple's App Store model is implemented and maintained to protect the revenue it generates, and security has always been an afterthought.

[1] https://webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware
Yes, and the country where everyone has $0 is most equal of all.
> Geeks are very different audience from general public.

HNers forget this quite often.
Exactly.

Gifted programs were providing that, via extra supervision and easier classes to manage (everyone wants to be there). These activists are now robbing these kids of their only alternative at having a functioning environment for 8 hours a day.
>Being not smart at all usually also means you are ignorant to what you don't know, that life has its merits, Repetitive jobs don't bore you, and happiness comes from simpler joys in life. I wouldn't mind living that way at all.

You're mixing up all kinds of unrelated things here. As does PG. Whats smartness? Going by Joscha Bach, it's the ability to reach your goals, as opposed to intelligence, your ability to make models. Wether repetitive work bores you isn't a matter of intelligence or smartness, however it does correlate significantly with cognitive functions (Jung).

The then following paragraph seems projective to me, generalizations are just all over the place; thats just not how it works, neither from a neuro- nor from a psychological perspective. It doesn't matter wether you're intellectual middle or high brow, you will always be an idiot because you'll always be residing in a brain, being bound to its constraints of focus and attention. the notion of absolute intelligence that you imply when relating to "being a bit clever is the worst of the lot" seems off to me.

>I would happily trade to being exactly perceived as I am or less and forgo all the money and praise if I didn't also be saddled with expectations of coming up with solutions all the time.

You're contradicting yourself: first you say that the general population doesn't get what being smart implies, and then you say that the general population expects you to deliver on what being smart implies

Sorry if this came off hostile, it wasn't meant so in any way. I just can't relate to these absolute notions and would strongly suggest you to read into psychology and neuroscience
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Why should we care what this board has to say? It's an attempt by Facebook to be bound by rules that they wrote, instead of rules written by Congress. I don't see a reason to pay them any mind.
I answered the question directly in my preceding reply [1]:

> They were sold as something that offered excellent but imperfect protection from COVID-19, which they do. If we look at the mainstream media in particular, analysis of the vaccines has ranged from "studies show this is really good" to "studies show this is okay" to "there's still things we don't know".

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947586
This isn’t really a concern for me, no
That's not quite accurate, let me try to explain it. GTK3 and GTK4 both support a kind of limited "theming" with CSS, and that hasn't changed. In GTK3 before certain versions, the CSS selectors were unstable, so theme developers were relying on something that was going to break. Even after the CSS selectors have been stabilized, it's only really safe for applications to change those selectors. Third party CSS loaded into a running application will always risk breaking. It was (and still is) safe for applications to load themes besides Adwaita if that's something they tested for, but this has to be something done by the application. Not by a third party theme. That's what that website is talking about.

There was a tweet going around a while ago that I'll try to re-state. Adwaita is not really a "theme" it's more like a CSS framework that you build your app on top of. Trying to swap out the theme is like trying to take a site built for Bootstrap and putting the CSS from Foundation on top of it, you might be able to hack it to sort of get it to work but what you're doing is combining two things which are fundamentally not compatible. Hopefully that helps explain why the method that people were using for third party theming in GTK3 was unreliable.

In GTK4, the Adwaita theme has actually been removed from GTK and moved into libadwaita. That could mean some changes for some things, but not other things. Will all GTK3 apps port to GTK4 and libadwaita? Probably the GNOME ones will, but other apps might not. In that case it would be up to those developers to come up with a solution for theming, they could try to base that on CSS, or they could do something else.
I was puzzled over why trampolining is used, so a quick look shows it was used for tracking notification clicks. Anybody know why these analytics are sometimes handled before the view instead of inside it?
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> But the secondary selling point was never having to go to a gas station again when I am just barely going to make the meeting and forgot to fill my gas tank the night before.

Curious example since that's one of the drawbacks of an EV. If you forgot to fill the gas tank and have to stop, you'll be 5 minutes late. But if you forgot to charge the EV, now you're looking at several hours late (or give up and call a cab).
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Looks like about once every two months?

Which is actually more than I expected, and seems like kind of too much.
Quite a few folks/societies that study chronobiology and sleep rhythms have put out statements that permanent Standard Time is what we should ideally be using.

A comment of mine from a few months ago with links to various position papers, many of which are referenced in the story you linked to:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416574

The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms:

> Local and national governments around the world are currently considering the elimination of the annual switch to and from Daylight Saving Time (DST). As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently. Four peer reviewers provided expert critiques of the initial submission, and the SRBR Executive Board approved the revised manuscript as a Position Paper to help educate the public in their evaluation of current legislative actions to end DST.

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31170882/

* https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730419854197

World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology:

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. […]

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

* https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00944

If anyone think that these are wrong, feel free to contact the original authors.
>I haven't worked out the cryptographic mechanisms but my ballpark assessment is that it should be possible to work out a mechanism that protects your identity up until you accept to exchange exposure for ability. The business model is probably more of an issue, as you pointed out.

Another piece to this that you haven't addressed is that in the environment you propose, once you've chosen to expose your identity, every single thing you've ever posted and will ever post is now de-anonymized.

>Oh BTW, it doesn't have to be a legal identity, I think. It could be some kind of identity that you build, it costs something and can be identical across platforms.

I'd note that's already the case. If you're pseudonymous and offend the powers that be on a particular platform, they can already ban/censor/block you.

Please understand that I am not attacking you, nor am I dismissing your thoughts. There absolutely is merit in exploring ways to combat abuse/trolling/sundry nastiness online.

Rather, I find your proposal unconvincing and likely unworkable. It would be way too easy to game such a system and it would impose serious consequences on anyone who might espouse an unpopular opinion -- even if that opinion isn't abusive.

I sincerely hope that we can find ways to limit abusive/destructive behaviors online, but given that we've been unable to do so IRL when one's identity is already known, that seems incredibly unlikely.
Income equality is not a useful measure by itself in isolation. Clearly there's communist societies that have greater equality in income or wealth (if everyone's wealth is 0), but have lower standard of living.
The two sides don't react to contempt symmetrically. The left doesn't care if Trump insults them. It only has any bearing if it leads to policy changes they hate. The right, on the other hand, really, really hates to be made fun of, to the point where they'd rather destroy the country (see the Civil War or the Jan 6 insurrection) than leave an insult unaddressed. The right believes the left is as sensitive as they are to issues of honor, so they spend vast effort trying to own the libs. The left believes compassion, ideals, rational argument, and consideration of material self-interest are what motivate everyone, so they write endless tracts trying to prove their point, appealing to science and founding principles and so forth. The right finds this boring. The clever right find this a useful red cape to distract their enemies with. "Surely we must not nominate Supreme Court judges in an election year! It's a sacred principle! Oops, except let's nominate several now that it's our turn to nominate."
> Chapter 11 of the selfish gene from 1976 plainly states this.

Yep. And the idea has been elaborated upon by many writers since (especially during the '90s).
+1 to basically everything you said, that's why I flagged
I am the person who asked and I was probably unclear. I mentioned the operator sdk because that is what I am trying at the moment but I am open to other approaches so this example is welcome
I don't think that's true. We can see in the comments that there was almost no useful discussion. It just immediately devolved into personal attacks with tons of upvotes.
> Sadly it was short-lived

Understandable since a few years later Google would acquire Doubleclick Inc, which back then was number one in polluting the web with advertising, and first entry in all adblockers kill lists.
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Yes. They deactivate Orb devices if they detect anomalies, but expect this to be hacked very soon.
A bunch of people here just mentioned they love the fact that the payment is handled by Apple for piece of mind. So I guess that would be why?
Security and peace-of-mind, as the other commenter requested. Convenience - already having a credit card linked and ready to go.

Also who is to say the developer would charge less? Let's say, for example, a company called ezpay charges $1 per transaction. If an IAP costs $10, they make $7 off the user who buys via Apple, and $9 off the user that buys via ezpay API in the app. They could lower the ezpay price to $8 and still only make $7, but why bother?
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What are people's thoughts on Allen Watts. Ive listened to a few of his talks on YouTube and read one of his books but I feel there are better any suggestions
>…He has come to believe there is only one weapon that can defeat our extreme political polarization: love.

Oh my, what a silly way to pitch a possible reader on your book.

There is a (VERY conservative) town in my state where every single employee of the local department of transportation has quit over the vaccine mandate. Now the former employees and their conservative allies are gleefully posting about how “the libs” won’t be able to use the nearby freeways due to lack of maintenance, and how “the libs” will have trouble driving around town because there will be no snow plow operators come winter.

Here’s the funny part: The conservative:liberal ratio there is about 50:1. This rural town is gleefully destroying its own infrastructure over some perceived culture war, fully knowingly. These people are willing to cripple their ability to leave their houses in order to “own the libs” even if they’re not even existent.

I do not think I could be convinced by some old guy that his newly-invented form of conservative Kumbaya will actually make it possible for these people to go to the pharmacy when it snows, or get fresh food from the grocery store.
Right, we should do something like require fathers to pay support to their children, and become involved in visitation rights should the parties request it.

I don't understand what you thinks happens in divorce that's so special. If an unmarried father and mother have children, then any dispute they may have regarding children that can be taken to court in a marriage can also happen to them.
> Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Gates have all done _something_ to earn their money, whereas monarchies and dictatorships empower their rulers purely through shows of physical and governmental strength.

Nothing says this has to be the case, and China - definitely a dictatorship - demonstrates a pretty clear counterexample.
No, Jobs actually didn't want an App Store. He had to be convinced.
The iron in the universe is increasing over time.

On earth it replenishes too via meteorite strikes and by nuclear decay. I'm not sure was decays into iron, but I'm sure it's most things, given its name as the most stable element

Mind you, rust is quite similar to iron ore
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