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> Apple does not hinder any developer from selling their software on competing devices or operating systems

But Apple does hinder every developer from selling their software on Apple devices without using Apple's mandatory software distribution service. Which most of us can agree, is relatively monopolistic in nature and creates a captive market of Apple customers ripe for abuse.
What?!? Would you employee people full-time and let them work whenever they felt like it?
Would you rather it had a JSON dependency to parse a config file, or yet another poorly thought out, ad-hoc homegrown config file format?
ReactPHP – Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP
Aside from the absurd title SciAm republished it under, the article originally appeared here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.16131

Whether it is actually much use in understanding black holes is a matter of opinion.
I don't think that's a sound prediction. There are lots of kinds of mental illness, and at least in my view the ones in question are mostly depression, anxiety and the like. Not exactly famous for producing violent outbursts, and a lot of people get treated, which cuts down on suicide. Besides, I don't know if I would trust historical stats for suicide, but whatever.

Also the GP comment was arguably more about sanitized childhood in general, which is a more gradual trend than starting at the 1900s exactly.
It is worth putting out a very big caveat here that "piracy" in this sense is not downloading an Iso through BitTorrent when Microsoft provides the ISO for LTSC to freely download through your browser.

The 'piracy' element is running an activation script off of GitHub.

However IMO that is Microsoft problem and not mine for not providing a legal way for a normal consumer to get LTSC. They could make it another tier and charge more if they were inclined. I hate the idea of paying for privacy, but ethically I would be compelled to do so if the option was available to me.

As said in other comments, personally ethically the way I justify it is I already have a Windows 11 License and I am just installing a different version of 11. Microsoft still got the money.

Given that there is no torrenting and it is just a script you are running, I am legitimately curious about any legal ramifications.

> but thankfully most of what I want to run will run on Linux.

For me once I hit "most" and not "all" I asked myself why I was bothering, I was dual booting SteamOS and Windows but using Windows the vast majority of the time. Been debating recently on re-imaging and continuing to dual boot but solely to have SteamOS for firmware updates.
The author has built the following encoder:

- A genie hands the encoder the type of an iid source sequence (the function N here: [1])

- The encoder produces a representation of the source with fewer bits than what would be possible using a Shannon-efficient encoder that didn't know the type.

- You also need to know the type to decode.

The reduction in bits from Shannon's theorem is explained by the genie revealing this extra information that reduced the input sequence's entropy (also causing it to become non-iid).
The collection of letter-typical sequences of specific type is indeed often going to be smaller than (entropy-rate)^(blocklength), and that is what we are seeing here.
This is where the author's explanation starts to go astray:

> The Shannon limit uses Stirling's approximation which is an asymptotic approximation for factorials and as such the approximation is too large for small values and becomes more accurate as the factorial size (i.e. message length and symbol count) approaches infinity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typical_set#Strongly_typical_s...

I would recommend the author read any information theory textbook, starting at the latest, at the part that covers Asymptotic Equipartition Properties. This is the crucial definition that will make the source coding theorem concrete, in my opinion.
People drown in bathtubs all the time...

There are only two obvious ways to minimize risk: teach people to swim or prevent people from swimming. Guess which one is more cost-effective?
Your comment reminds of the young man on Twitter complaining about how men would go to war and command legions back in the day instead of working boring 9-5 jobs. Brett Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) did the math [0] and the chances of being peasant was 9/10 while chances of commanding a legion was 1 out of 19,200

Quoting Brett, "Buddy, you wouldn't have been leading legions, you'd have been a damn peasant, listening to the Roman aristocrat whose estate your farm borders lecture you on how you are the problem, as your family literally starves to death."

It also reminds me European types who dream of the glorious Roman Empire, forgetting that if you weren't Italian, there was a very high chance you'd be one of those enslaved with your entire tribe after losing yet another war with the Romans.

That's the thing about people imagining the past: they always imagine they'd be a noble where they'd be a peasant.

[0]: https://x.com/BretDevereaux/status/1666297251004596224
> The school system is more of an industrial childcare operation for working parents, than an actual education system for the kids

Bingo. And, as the spouse of a teacher, there's not a lot of hope of that changing any time soon. The pay would have to change... the people currently working would have to be dismissed or, for those introspective and motivated, retrained... never going to happen.

And generally focused on creating followers not thinkers. I really enjoyed "The Coddling of the American Mind"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...

https://www.thecoddling.com/
As far as I know my Tesla S will take action at up to 145 kph (90 mph). I'm not sure if the latest updates apply to my 2015 car, if it does then AEB operates up to 200 kph (125 mph)
> The milieu around you—which shapes you, and which you shape in turn—we can model as a directed graph. The nodes are people and objects and ideas connected to each other. And the graph is directed because you have nodes that send you input and nodes you send output to.

Then shows a figure of a weirdly symmetric undirected graph that looks nothing like a social or complex network!
manioc is the one that really makes me wonder, it needs some pretty complex and time consuming processing before it's not poisonous.
Reagan carried 49 of 50 states in 1984. The vast majority of the problems we see today are rooted in Reaganism.

On the other side of the pond the same generation of voters gutted the UK under Thatcher, then sacrificed their children and grandchildren at the altar of Brexit.

The generation who destroyed the social safety their parents gave them is on the hook for this, even if the majority of them also get to enjoy the fruits of their decisions.
How was that comment acting like this is an "on an iPhone" experience that's new to the world?
Just please allow us to turn it off when we want.

I drove a new BMW the other day, and the driver aides were beyond annoying and unable to be deactivated it seemed.
40% is the marginal rate. Only a very small proportion of people will be paying that, and vanishingly few will be paying that on a substantial proportion of their earnings. The average rate of taxes paid will be much more reasonable.
Ram 1500’s as well. There is one spot where I park when at a clients that does it every time. It’s startling when it happens. I turn it off when I think of it but often forget to re-enable it.
Not the whole market at the high end either, I have very little trouble getting any pair of Balmain, Versace, and Rick Owens sneaker I want - I have several dozen pairs of all three brands

Strategy at the high end is to price correctly but astronomically so almost no one can afford them, then offer seasonal sales to sell the less popular colorways or styles off to the aspirational upper poor.

Nike/Adidas is like the polar opposite, intentionally underprice so demand is frantic and there is a lot of action for middle men, then over the years try to steal back as much of the middle men profit as possible

All very interesting imo
> When all the hard surfaces of our culture have been made soft, spongy and safe, when all the sharp edges are filed down smooth, how will we raise children who grow into adults adequately prepared to deal with the harshness of the real world?

Scarred and maimed kids aren't more ready to take on the real world. Losing a toe doesn't make you any more prepared to deal with a difficult coworker.

Daniel Tiger is actually really excellent in how it prepares kids for the real world. No other kids show does a better job of talking about strong emotions, acknowledging them, and dealing with them (or dealing with conflict in general). It shows parents getting upset, kids being shits, and stuff generally just not going right all the time.

I see no way that having an ugly mean Elaine would benefit the show.
XBox is/was so open it spawned a very popular media platform: XBMC (XBox Media Center)
If the Efficient-market Hypothesis was true, it would not be rational to buy (or sell), any stock, commodity, currency or other investment vehicle as an investment alone. Yet plenty of professionals and amateurs do, and many make a profit, which suggest the hypothesis is not provably true.

One way to think of trading is you're kind of in a ponzi scheme. Not an illegal one, but you're buying stock today you're hoping somebody else will buy off you at a higher price one day in the future. If you short a position, you're hoping that somebody will sell you stock at a lower price than it is today for some reason.

All of this suggests to me that markets are not the perfectly rational machines people insist they are. Sure, most people would do better to buy and hold indexes than to time trades on individual stocks (by a long margin), but the argument that all value is priced in all of the time is just daft.
Yeah, one of the first to use the latest version of unreal with new physics engine.

I just wanted to talk about the finals because I love it.
Plot twist: Earth life is slowly running out of mitochondria.
And how many of those are young kids ? 1 is already too many

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0514-vs-drowning.ht...
I think you should really read more on his track record, history and reasons for dismissal.
That's a strange take. Please provide evidence for how I'm acting? I wondered about something, that's all I see.

I think Uber is a pain to many for both making a market and setting the terms. Let the market decide what the prices and availability should be, that would be more "ride-sharing". They're just a super-informal taxi company. The fact that they weren't prosecuted for breaking laws along the way shows what hold money has on policy-making.

A driver is a contractor of some form to Uber, Uber sets the prices. Uber can screw around as much as they like, because they set all the terms. I'm not disagreeing with the day labor analogy, though it's not even a day here, it's just whenever Uber throws them a bone. You can say the drivers are all stupid if they thought it should be any different. I'd never be an Uber driver except if I thought I could get someone to split gas money with me for some trip, actual "ride sharing".
I remain unconvinced that the benefits of secrecy are outweighted by the benefits of transparency. It's unfortunate that the threat actor was caught so hard, but that is the cost of doing business. Couching it as protect the children or punish the terrorists doesn't change the fundamentals. Police work, soldier work, IRS work. They all have to work within and around the "normal" world. They aren't allowed to just demand obeisance because it makes their job easier
>EDIT: this is actually the combined market share of CDK + Reynolds, who have a non-compete agreement

I would bet money they have non-competes and no-hire agreements with more companies than that - the entire industry is full of it
NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider
Are you read the software licenses for the whole software ecosystem in an Apple shop at purchase time?
This. Optimal use of an arithmetic encoder is with P(symbol | all previous symbols), not just P(symbol). Obviously there are practical problems with storing all possible contingency tables, so for something like HEVC there is quite a lot of effort in identifying where this matters.
>As an example, given the symbol frequencies of 1, 2, and 3 for a total of 6 symbols. Shannon limit [-(1/6)log2(1/6)-(2/6)log2(2/6)-(3/6)log2(3/6)]6 = 8.75 => 9 bits

This isn't how you calculate Shannon limit fwiw. If all symbols are of equal frequency simply take the total number of different symbols and simply log2(different_symbol_count). That's it.

So say you had 60 different permutations. Each of those is a symbol in entropy encoding. Each individual symbol takes log2(60) bits to store using arithmetic encoding. Which is exactly the statement and correct calculation you had for calculating the Shannon limit in the very next line :). As in the Shannon limit for 60 different symbols is absolutely 5.9bits not 9bits

Instead you have some weird calculation here that seems to take individual probabilities and add them back up again to give 9bits. That's very far off and incorrect.
Woah, wait. There is soursop juice! Pow!!
Even the Grimms themselves seem to have toned down the gore in their stories to appeal to larger audiences. It seems like many people at the time didn't think the original editions were suitable for children, so they brought out more family-friendly editions once they realized there was a demand for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/12/grimm-brothers...

> "Zipes describes the changes made as “immense”, with around 40 or 50 tales in the first edition deleted or drastically changed by the time the seventh edition was published. “The original edition was not published for children or general readers. Nor were these tales told primarily for children. It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm’s editing and censoring many of the tales,” he told the Guardian."
What regulations exist on computer devices that Apple is evading?
The Eternal Truth of Markdown
Previous submission, no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776434
From the Reuters article linked in this thread:

> NHTSA did not immediately comment but said in April the rule will save at least 360 lives annually

With about 43k traffic fatalities a year, this requirement is expected to save around 360? Is it that the vast majority of traffic fatalities do not involve someone not braking in time to avoid hitting another vehicle, or is it that braking in time would not save very many lives anyway? Either way, that's not an impressive statistic, especially if it is trying to justify a very intrusive mandate.
On some Linux filesystems you can do this if the chunk to be inserted is a multiple of the block size.

See `FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE` and `FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE` in `fallocate(2)`
Thanks! It's worth adding GlazeWM[1] and Whim[2] to this list for Windows too

[1]: https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm

[2]: https://github.com/dalyIsaac/Whim
This may be controversial, but i the blame browsers for letting them hijack the scrollbar. it should not a feature.
This, he never talked about how much would be produced, promising figures after the election.

He revealed sites where he wants to build with zero effort getting approval or buy in from the owners or even the state.

Stop wasting time pretending this is a serious policy
F*ck Uber.

I wish the United States would do what Greece did.
It uses TOML for configuration.
I share your philosophy of wanting more of a buffer between my neighbors and me, and I'm also conscious of trying not to disturb them unnecessarily (mowing too early or too late, using a gas leaf blower when I could use an electric one, etc.). I'm lucky that my neighbors seem to appreciate the quite too, and I wish this kind of mutual respect for each other was more common.
I wrote an article questioning the use of Pandas for ETL. I invite you to read it: https://medium.com/@thibaut_gourdel/should-you-use-pandas-fo...
If you've got a bone to pick, then include the entire story, good and bad.
Czech children's TV is something else. I've seen some of it too and, to my North American perspective, it feels like a feverdream.
Honestly, your comment is very misleading & unfair. The video seems very in-depth and educational.

Sure, it is micro-python not python. But your copying the typical implicit "just clickbait waste of time" rhetoric, which is really not applicable here.

Haven't watched the dhole video yet, but it seems very genuine & interesting. What a downer your type of comment is. I wouldn't even have commented on it, but i didn't want your comment to be the only one here.
Setting up your environment so that you have to check for errors or the errors propagate doesn't seem to be cheating when the complaint is that other environments often omit checking for errors even when it matters.
There’s a lot of handwaving about message sizes which seems fishy to me.

The ‘hidehohedihe’ worked example, the post claims:

> Thus encoding is complete, the final value to store = 311041. This requires 3 bytes / 19 bits to store, while the original message was 8 bytes / 96 bits.

I guess he means 12 bytes here, which seems to be assuming your message is composed of symbols from the full 256 character alphabet.

Given that the decoder needs the exact frequency count of the symbols in the source message (not just a frequency distribution - the original message frequency counts) that means he needs to communicate a series of arbitrary sized integers (sounds like we’ll need ‘universal coding’ - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_code_(data_compres... ), the 8 bit characters they correspond to, and the ‘compressed message’ number.

We can maybe terminate the integer list with a zero since there won’t be any entries in the list with a frequency count of 0, and that will automatically tell us how many characters to expect.

So I think that amounts to needing to send: 1,1,2,4,4,0,i,o,d,e,h,311041.

Using Levenshtein coding for the integer list, we need 25 bits for the numbers, 40 for the letters, and 19 bits for the ‘message’, assuming we can detect the end of it somehow. That’s 84 bits in total.

You could literally squeeze ‘hidehohedihi’ into that by just using 7bit ASCII.

Alternatively if I just naively send the n characters in my alphabet as a nul-terminated string (iodeh\0) followed by the string encoded in base(n) - base 5 in this case - we’re looking at what, 48 bits for the character map and 28 bits for the message, for a 76bit message.

With Huffman coding you can omit the lookup table from the compressed message size in many cases because you’re using a common coding table across many messages/files.

In this case the frequency count table is message-specific, though, so you can’t assume the decoder already has access to it.

I suppose if you can maybe force the underlying message to contain an exactly even quantity of all symbols - normalize it with padding until the frequency counts are all the same - you might be able to take advantage of the distribution being ‘preknown’ by the recipient?
> A composition of numbers is also a number but a composition of atoms is something else and not an atom so I didn't really follow the rest of your argument.

That's not true. To give a trivial example, a set or sequence of numbers is composed of numbers but is not itself a number. 2 is a number, but {2,3,4} is not a number.

> Computers have a formal theory

They don't. Yes, there is a formal theory mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists have developed to model how computers work. However, that formal theory is strictly speaking false for real world computers – at best we can say it is approximately true for them.

Standard theoretical models of computation assume a closed system, determinism, and infinite time and space. Real world computers are an open system, are capable of indeterminism, and have strictly sub-infinite time and space. A theoretical computer and a real world computer are very different things – at best we can say that results from the former can sometimes be applied to the latter.

There are theoretical models of computation that incorporate nondeterminism. However, I'd question whether the specific type of nondeterminism found in such models, is actually the same type of nondeterminism that real world computers have or can have.

Even if you are right that a theoretical computer science computer can't have intentionality, you haven't demonstrated a real world computer can't have intentionality, because they are different things. You'd need to demonstrate that none of the real differences between the two could possibly grant one the intentionality the other lacks.
Lisps sure is fun! I didn't understand any of this kind of stuff until I learned Lisp.
> It's not car makers individually doing this it is an organization specifically associated with the importation of cars to the US.

It looks like[1] almost all the big players, major suppliers, and then some...except Tesla.

[1] https://www.autosinnovate.org/about/our-members
The reason you look at suicide and violent crime is that they're clear indicators. Diagnosis of mental illness is not: definitions, diagnostic techniques, and access to diagnoses have changed radically over the last 100 years. It's similar (though less rigorous, for several reasons) to homicide being the gold standard crime statistic.

I'm not making a claim that mental health doesn't matter if it doesn't result in suicide or incarceration. I'm saying: those are two sets of numbers you can find going back to the intervention (the sanitization of fairy tales) and trace since then.

The story those numbers tells doesn't match the just-so story the comment provides. Maybe there's more going on than those numbers represents! But I think you'll have a tough time supporting that argument with facts. For instance: the claim was made across the thread that suicide levels were artificially suppressed in 1900 because of religious norms, which works against the story; moreover: you can see in the actual charts what suicide tracks with (it's not a smooth line).
lush was basically an early attempt at what julia does today - a high level lisp like language and a high performance c-like language with good ffi support wrapped in one.

I do see your point about picolisp being simple enough that the dynamic scope fits into the overall model; I might give it a try sometime just to see what it's like in practice.
Dartmouth college (USA), had a requirement that you must pass a swimming test to receive your degree. ( Obviously - if you didn't know how, there were free lessons.)
They have recently dropped that requirement!
( After more than 200 years.)
Why?
At least with the old rules, you always knew that if a person was a Dartmouth grad, you could push them in the water.
Or, at least, not worry about boating with them.
(3 months ago) Discussion at the time (18 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675391
we should absolutely make the originals available, next to the "sanitized" versions that are clearly labeled as "not original" or "loosely based on the original story"

Even "The Shining" is labeled as "based on the original novel from Stephen King" and not as a "faithful adaption of ..."

Any other way of presenting the redacted material it's bad, as in "universally bad".