skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not until you start telling me that I don't have a right to eat food that the FDA hasn't approved for me. If you only eat FDA-certified food, good for you. It's a service the government provides free-of-charge, and some people like it.

It is illegal to import unapproved drugs, so yes FDA can stop you. And no the FDA is not really “free-of-charge” since you pay them through your tax dollars. But I concede that, like most analogies, this one is flawed because we don’t get to vote for the governing body that controls Apple’s decision-making.

> No, the solution is explicitly stopping big tech from being a gatekeeper. Apple can continue to sell their "premium" App Store with amazing security benefits and brilliant moderation, while advanced users can toggle the "freedom mode" setting or whatever and go get IPA files off Github. It's not some pie-in-the-sky concept, it's how software distribution was meant to be done.

To me it sounds like you would prefer not to be an Apple customer. Apple is selling their walled-garden approach, if this is not what you want there’s always Android which allows your preferred software distribution approach. Why the necessity to force Apple to do the same?

In my case, I don’t want iOS to allow third party app stores because I don’t want another attack vector to be introduced into the system. It would be like Adobe Flash all over again. At the moment if there’s a major security issue that arises in iOS I can squarely blame Apple because they’ve taken on that responsibility. That is what I’m paying for. If the day comes when I think Apple is no longer keeping me secure or is unfairly restricting software that I want to use on their platform then I can switch over to Android.
App [submission] as a service, or AasS. I guess that'll be my YC pitch for '23. Wanna be my co-founder? /s
Congrats on launching!!! I will see if I can find someone who can roast your product.
> At least Facebook is a reasonably successful advertising business and social network, and VR headsets are an actual product that you can use for gaming, telepresence, etc..

They went whole-hog on the metaverse and their customers rejected it with a resounding "no". If they stop now they can probably make a full recovery. The fear is Zuckerberg is far too stupid to do that. In any other company the board would have terminated him several quarters ago. He is smart enough, however, that he allowed the board absolutely no power. So he is a Benevolent Dictator for Life and due to this it's entirely possible his own hubris will run Meta directly into the ground.
There is none. The only thing anyone has referenced is some pre-PayPal code that got scrapped and rewritten in the merger and some games when he was a kid.
More iPhone users use Windows than use MacOS. That's quite the seam and for this reason I generally recommend Bitwarden or Strongbox on iOS.
I tried Android years ago when I bought an abominable B&N Nook Color, and it became clear very quickly that there was no plan to keep the device updated with security patches, etc. Not only that, but the OS had been grotesquely hobbled in an attempt to keep you within B&N's sad walled garden.

I understand there are flagship devices that don't have this problem, and maybe this is unfair of me, but I came to expect that devices using Android would likely be riddled with garbage from whatever OEM was relying on the OS. While I do think it's cool that Google made Android so open, it also opened a bit of a Pandora's Box.
Elon Musk fires Twitter CEO, CFO, and other execs
Yeah, and technologists don’t give a shit about what regular people think. When have they ever advanced the state of how we use technology? In 20 years they’ll be happily be using VR glasses, completely having forgotten their initial skepticism.
Political panhandling, unfortunately, has been granted exceptionally strong constitutional protections :(
My estimation is likely exaggerated, I was thinking of YouTube and websites with sticky video ads.

Since 20,000 people seeing a 30s unskippable ad in Youtube amounts to 167 man hours used, maybe I should have said "hundreds of man hours wasted for a few measly dollars?".
I'm good enough with the farm animals
Why should I switch to plant based?
Most laptops have the fan speeds set overly aggressive. I bought a Asus Zephyrus last year and by default the fan was coming on and off every few seconds, I tweaked the fan profile and boost policy so now it rarely comes on at all for regular day to day work. CPU temperatures stay under 55C.
> YT would still be making money

You are aware how YT makes money, right?
Cable failure from misuse/abuse almost always happens at the point where the cable meets the connector. Cables with flexible reenforced material at that point can help a lot with longevity.
That theory that you make up the entire memory of a dream the instant you wake up based on the "randomized" state of the brain at sleep must be bunk then.
>worth 12 billion

Why do you say this?
No. People like David Koch benefit.

The rest have very little say.
Elon Musk fires four Twitter executives including the CEO
> Are you implying that ideology should be changed?

Yes. Privacy and Monetization can go hand in hand but this is a problem Big Tech isn't looking to solve because they do not consider it a problem in the first place.

If we continue on the current path, the dystopia will only get worse. Companies that refuse to innovate in this space are going to face the consequences sooner or later or on the other hand, people that refuse to stop supporting companies that enable censorship and surveillance will face the consequences as well.
The Quest for Perfect Collisions (2022)
*not necessarily more efficient.
He's the CEO. You think he's writing the flight control software?
Nah, an industrial machinery interface won't be liable for ADA suits. Title II of the ADA only covers "the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity"[0] – public being the keyword.

You are legally allowed to make an accessibility hellscape of an intranet site :)

[0] https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/titleII_2010/titleII_2010_withb....
Why do iOS developers as a group need the government to grant them bartering power?

If so why can't every other sizeable group, such as commenters on HN, demand government granted bartering power?

This doesn't seem like a sound legal basis for a law that would last longer, in the U.S., than the Supreme Court's regular calendar.
That’s security updates only not operating system updates,

For reference, Apple just released a security update for the 5s from 2013 this past June.

The 6S (2015) ran the latest OS until ios 16 this year.
well, by defintion you are possible wrong.

The definition of terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

The definition of violence isnt so easy, because its not just physical right? So to destroy the human heritage is in my opinion a violence. A violence against the european and world history. The most sad part on that is that the countries which are more cooperative and sensible to the cause are those suffering more. China, India, US won't change their plans because Hans and Melanie destroyed a Monet.
You're just restating the same thing you already said, without providing any evidence. You're stating a belief, no different than "God is in everything" or "God is everywhere". It's an empty tautology, if everything is political, then the word is without meaning.

So "God is everywhere" is also a lens with which to view the world. It's based on the same amount of evidence.
My request: usage on error must be output to STDERR, but -h must be to STDOUT
The new yolo king of /r/wallstreetbets
This is a pretty incomplete understanding of the issue, there are plenty of dams where silting is not an issue at all and will serve their purpose for centuries if properly maintained. There are also dams where silting is a regular problem. A so called 'sediment bypass' is often a feature of these dams, where water is pulled from the base of the dam through a bypass to clear out silting.

It all depends on the natural hydraulic dynamics of the dam - some are better placed than others.
I think you make it sound easier than it is. I also decided over dinner one evening. Then I realized meat was in almost every meal I loved. I tried them without meat and hated it. Habit I guess.

Then I realized I'd rather be a bad person than a miserable person; that it was wrong, but I'd do it anyway. This is what you're up against -- the sad but brutal reality of apathy and willful disregard.

Mea culpa.
Maybe because your meat consumption and demand for increasing land and water use to satiate your meat consumption is ruining the planet for the rest of us?

If I could trap all the "unrepentant meat eaters" in a dome and let you ruin your own environment without broiling the rest of us, I wouldn't have a problem with your choices.
> "It’s a fakery to help the police feel OK about themselves, and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place."

I'm sorry what?

I'm not a police cheerleader but does this guy ever tried to live in a populous place without police?
I think you could understand that that value is only useful in some contexts.

It’s like comparing apples and oranges.
or was this all just theater?
Good for him. I respect and appreciate the ownership, much more than the 2 other guys on there who were just acting like they needed to keep JimCramer™ the brand at maximum market value.

In the long run ownership is far more valuable than being right or wrong on a specific call, because ownership is what improves your batting average.
Synthesis of a mirror-image RNA polymerase
- 1/25 of squadron without a spleen

- 1:1000 parachute failure (general stats)

- 1:~970 surviving a free fall. (News excerpts, napkin math).

- 3:4 death by ruptured spleens (auto accidents, AMA)

- 1:~10500 total failure in a single flight of F-8 Crusader (1955-1978). Nearly all F-8s were declared non-flight ready over time before decommissioning. Last squadron of F-8 were rendered incapacitated by Mt. Pintubo eruption in Philippine air base.

- 1:~48 ejection seat failure (1970s, USAF), assuming before F-8E model. Martin-Baker took over at F-8E+.

- 1:~15000 total failure of a single inflight refueling by C-130A drogue approach. (1960-1968 est.)

Or odds were 8.522882234222e−18.

Feels like he was beating at winning the MegaLotto odds.
how does Parag Agrawal come out of this looking "in the right"?
That is, in fact, the modern city.
>Almost 40% of all food in the US is wasted each year and that's enough to feed every hungry person on earth.

You have a feasible plan to distribute all the wasted food in the U.S. to all the world's hungry people that you'd like to share?
Also this http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/start
That's not what this story says:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/dorsey-wanted-musk-on-twitte...
> he has been known to get into nitty gritty

Is he writing any software at SpaceX or Tesla? I've heard stories here and there of him sitting in an engineering meeting.

Zip2 was founded in 1995 -- there are credible claims (from a biography) he wrote software there, and that's all I've found.
He forced PayPal to switch to windows. Opinions differ as to the wisdom of that move.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12513223
highly doubt this guy wrote a single line of code at any of those companies
Use your imagination. You can:
- Attend meetings and feel an infinitely greater sense of presence than Zoom
- Whiteboard with your coworkers
- Play games more immersive than any you’ve ever played before
- Extend a tiny laptop into a massive multi-monitor setup - on the go
- Spin up a massive movie theater for yourself on a plane flight
- …
Elon apparently used Tesla engineers to review Twitter code: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/tesla-eng...

Do Tesla employees work for Tesla or are they Elon's personal staff? How is acceptable when employees can be fired for moonlighting?
Is there any actual evidence of him "getting into the nitty gritty" at SpaceX or Tesla? Confirmation from people who would have been there to see it? Or just his own claims? I don't think his time doing early web stuff at x.com or PayPal counts as "heavy duty" and it certainly wasn't 20 years.
Someone was repeatedly breaking into my apartment lobby to steal mail. The police told me they couldn’t do anything unless I had video of it. So I caught the crime on video, identified them, and went to the police station with the video. They said they wouldn’t do anything because it wouldn’t be prosecuted anyway.

Oh, and they also warned me not to confront the perp or do anything myself or they might arrest me. The same person continued to steal packages, and I moved.
Who's using extensions in a work context anyway? I only use an ad-blocker because it's safer from a malware perspective.
Tbh the best direction for twitter to move in is to stop recommending content people did not subscribe to. And then adjust the rules to allow anything legal to be tweeted to your own page. If you object to someones tweets, don't follow them. There may still need to be rules on replying to others tweets since thats pushing content on people.
Something will survive, but maybe not mankind.

The while save the planet thing isn't about the planet but about us.

If we change the environment, nature will adapt and live will continue but maybe not in a way we can survive.

So it's unlikely that we kill live on earth just the live as we know it
Throwaway so the Googlers don’t hunt us down. Whenever we get a violation we just resubmit a new build without any material changes, maybe a bug fix or two. We know our app review will be handled by a different person in country A this time instead of country B, or a different person down the hall, so there’s a strong chance the review passes without issue.

Violations are completely arbitrary and not enforced or closely reviewed upon resubmitting, so we put as much effort into them as Google does.

Being forced to work under these conditions feels like being in an abusive relationship.
Zelle is absolutely bad, imo. It's like an incomplete Paypal but with a $3.5k transaction limit.
I think you'll find the attached link is project currently in development that does exactly what you're saying is economically impossible. It clearly is not impossible to build a relatively shallow dikes on top of a butte.
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tmux is a fantastic tool, but it tends to intimidate naive users.

My way of reassuring them is telling that they only need to remember one key shortcut, namely Ctrl+B at once followed by "?" to get to the help screen.

I can't say a lot of people around me end up using it, but must of them just don't need it that badly.
Here is my .tmux.conf [1]. This file also contains a basic tutorial. I set the PREFIX key to ctrl-a as it is more ergonomic. I also have a "mouse-mode" that can be toggled. When enabled, you can use the mouse to resize panes.

[1] https://github.com/jftuga/universe/blob/master/tmux.conf
There's even a paper on it "Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake": https://www.usu.edu/geo/geomorph/kansas.html
> Provide an asynchronous email-like support channel.
> Sure, a real email address would get spammed, but let me kick it off from a contact page and then reply via email
> Let me navigate the phone tree on the web and have them call me when a representative is available instead of me waiting

These options only work if the user actually knows what their email or phone number is.
Motivation in Acquiring Twitter
To what end? He signed the deal as was proposed, no?
I believe that Elon plans multiple routes to account for possibilities when he does business. I believe he colluded with other parties to depress Twitter's share price through legal drama, firstly so they could profit by knowing the moves in advance, and secondly so he could try and force the valuation lower to save his own money money. I believe he has tried several strategies to get the US government to intervene and cancel the deal.

Maybe all that is wildly out of band, but we've seen him operate for years now. He routinely lies; that is, creates a message he wants a certain market to hear to achieve a certain effect, and in a couple of moments, despite his massive wealth, has demonstrated that he has a keen interest in acquiring more wealth.
This is probably more common than the context suggests. CEO/CTO that both claim deep technical skills while not having touched code in decades, one demanding to talk to engineers, the other claiming he's deep in the codebase and knows what's going on. The best executives I've worked with are the ones that freely admit they don't know about the code, the worst are the ones that insist they're "technical" and keep bringing up stuff from 20 years ago with no bearing on the current problem but believing they're sharing their technical expertise
"We're destroying the planet with unfathomable cruelty, but at least we get to eat what we want!"

This is not the accomplishment you think it is. This is absolute depravity on a societal scale and the fact that we're all so okay with it is horrifying.
> I don't like another app store.

Second this. The existing trust system of the web is much preferable to inventing closed store. Plus the web isn't going anywhere.

Here's what should happen:

Some site says "get our app". Click. A banner shows up showing the app name, icon, screenshots?, highlights the domain.

It declares what capabilities it needs, but most permissions are temporary and on-demand. Apps that have sensitive perms (mic, camera) are highlighted whenever they use it.

Aggregators, blogs, (heck even governments), trust pilot can all have their own ad hoc review systems and warn against whatever, for those that want. You could even have a pre-installed whitelist for extra safety for non-techies for all I care.

Ready to download? Just press get app. There can even be an option to run the app once if it's something stupid that should have been a web page. Once downloaded, the signature is verified against a tls cert.

Something like that.
When I frequented Portola Valley, we called it six months of mud, six months of dust. Those golden hills are actually brown.
How is Unreal limited in a way that prevents it from doing something like CP77?
IntelliJ EAP quiet-launches support for Linux-arm64 remote dev
that is: "Docker on M1 support".
Where do you live? The greater cruelty is that we can feed everyone, but choose to throw it away instead if they can't pay. My mother worked at inner city schools in Ohio, let me tell you if the schools didn't have a free lunch and breakfast program (something a lot of politicians hate) a lot of kids wouldn't be eating at all. Saying hunger is solved in America is absurd. Maybe it is in a technical sense but it's far more profitable to keep it around, so we do.

Rate limit edit: The fact you have to give out food for free is the opposite point. They had food lines during the great depression too. Ideally the government wouldn't have to hand any children food for free lest they not eat at all.
Thanks for the laugh! I can only
Imagine the shenanigans that would come from such a bug
Interesting. Which plugin?
Interesting! I’m not at all familiar with game engine design or even game dev, but the only game series I can think of that reliably handles large, open-world scale well is GTA.

Here’s a dumb question: in theory, would Rockstar’s internal engine (RAGE) have worked for CP77, or are the technical challenges simply too different?
Status seeking is a fundamental motivation for people and catering to it has always been a source of wealth. In the past it was gold, silver, gems, ivory, beaver pelts, or purple dye. Now at least it's a device that performs a function.
i don't think so. we're moving towards language servers, so as long as your ide speaks langserver, you'll have a few choices
> You need only few % of the population protesting in the streets (less than 5% imho) to topple an authoritarian regime.

I know who my money would be on if vegans decide they want to try and overthrow the country.

> we can't pretend forever that (negative) externalities don't exist.

I agree but like I said, I think petri dish meat is the answer which would most likely be even less resource intensive than plant based alternatives when perfected. You only use the exact resources you need for each Petri dish and you can literally build a meat factory for every city. Next to zero transport emissions.

There is a good reason why those farming subsidies exist. It does not end well when people are hungry en masse.
"heavy duty", "hardcore", "falcon heavy", "cybertruck". Those terms relate. I guess he means appreciating programming down to the electron, photon millisecond when debugging a lost rocket launch three times in a row burning his money in the sense of physics and not some kind of marketty arbitrary opaque name for flavor of framework, platform package container combo.
Seems hyperbolic. Meta is spending a lot of money on R&D right now (good news for longterm investors); Facebook is still the place for real-life connections (outside of business); VR is immature but will be a big deal once it lowers in cost.
The pencil is weird, granted. Especially on the, I will admit, convoluted iPad lineup.

However, one reviewer said it was weird? Name the product, I’ll find someone who called it “weird.”
oh sure, the problem is in "the code".

just need to fix the code and then twitter will be all set.
And that's how Apple spoils you.

There are M1 machines with fans, but you can rest assured they did the tuning so that you don't end up paying thousands for a machine with poorly thought out fan curves that don't incorporate basic hysteresis.
I'd say it's more like a conspiracy by Big Investment to control energy markets to maximize profitability, and renewable energy is just less profitable than fossil fuels, for the fairly obvious reason that you can't easily meter sunlight and wind. OPEC can't decide 'less sunlight this quarter', for example.
A month ago an article appeared detailing how several prominent investors made a huge amount of money by buying the dip on twitter as the lawsuit business unfolded. I personally suspect collusion. The legal drama cost him relatively very little and was basically a favor to his friends.
Yes, except unlike wildlife, we have evolved be smart enough to limit our consumption in order to sustain future life. Unlike the algae that grows until it literally chokes itself to death, we can limit ourselves so future generations can also thrive.

Up farther in this thread you're celebrating increasing meat consumption as an economic victory, so I suggest you tilt your balance more towards "conservation" and away from "immediate pleasures".
I was certainly going to bring it up. The fabricants from Cloud Atlas haunted me.
Please, please, please:

* Write help text to stdout, not stderr, so I can grep it

* Set exit status to 0 on success and 1 or some other small positive integer on failure so I can use || and &&
he comes out of this quite wealthy, and, the man who made elon kneel, so I think he'll be all right.
You sound like a Catholic. Just because we can have sex doesn’t mean we should, etc.

What is the point of restraint? To what end? I should suffer to make your ideal of how the works ought to be a reality?

I’m not into your religion.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698870
It's purely spatial resolution and the representation of topography that high-resolution simulation permits. Any NWP model like WRF or WRF-LES will produce topographic-driven wind fields with high fidelity pretty much out of the box, without any customization required. The result may be pretty, but it's really nothing of note from a weather modeling perspective.

ECMWF's model is 9km spatial resolution, so Angel Island probably doesn't even show up in the model domain.