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I have a lot of respect for Allan Odgaard. Something happened, and I don't want to speculate, that caused him to take a break from Textmate (version 2.0 was supposed to come out 9 or so years ago).

Instead of abandoning the project he open sourced it and almost a decade later it is being released.

Textmate is now my graphical Notepad on Mac, with VS Code being my IDE and vim my text editor.

Thanks Allan.

That looks like a pretty good option. The downside is the price and it looks at least twice the size and weigh of thr SanDisk players.

With an off the shelf antenna, what kind of range can you spoof?

Maybe they too are fake/non-existant, a kind of honey pot to catch external spy agencies or a way to distract them.

I wish they had an option between free and $45/month. I want to deploy a tiny client side js app that requires http auth. I would rather netlify than a VPS, but not at $45.

I completely agree. I feel stupid everything I try use AWS. I have a pile of credits in my account that I am not using because I cannot bear to try (and fail... Again).

It's maddening and they clearly do not care.

A few months ago China banned Canadian pork on the grounds of forged export certificates (without specifying which exporter). It was seen in Canada as more retaliation over the arrest of the Huawei exec.

Now they are looking pretty silly with vastly less pork being produced domestically.

> - The containers concept is really great but not for most of the general users to make use of it. It’s still a bit geeky in nature.

This. Containers are quite complicated to reason about, require a fair amount of setup and do not sync. Not to mention the color pallete is bizarrely limited.

I use both Firefox and Chrome but use Chrome for work because Profiles are much easier to use. I just open another profile, which loads with a nice theme and a set of extensions (limiting my exposure to some extensions in other profiles).

Profiles are so simple and just work.

Firefox of course has profiles, but you cannot run two of them at the same time without using the command line (or creating shortcuts to launch multiple versions of the browser).

That would not have been about the Sahara, but about Arabia.

If you look at some Sat photos of Saudi Arabia you will see some crazy large circular meadows. They have greened the desert. Almarai is one of the world's largest dairy farms.

I have been driven in some quite delapidated cabs in SF. Maybe lack of maintenance or other in-cab monetization such as TV, brochures, or "suggesting" restaurants or clubs to tourists (not sure if this happens in SF, but definitely in other cities).

Maybe suspicious because the body had been moved?

Maybe he died because of someone's fridge, they freaked out and decided to dump in elsewhere.

Finally! Every. Single. Time. I have been forced to use VLOOKUPs or INDEX/MATCH I wonder why nobody on the Excel team had still not built a new easier interface. I wish I could only use Pandas but excel is the lingua franca of business.

One good reason for buying from Amazon: books and audiobook are trivially de-drmed.

heh, that was a typo. I fixed it.

> "Stoic philosophy, Sherman tells me, isn’t a “black and white picture.” “You can cherry-pick as much as you like in order to get the picture you want,” she says. “But to use Stoicism for a political agenda... "

Which is exactly what this article and author is doing.

Sotcism isn't about expressing emotion (cry when appropriate, then stop would be the stoic message, and don't encourage grief in others)

It isn't about red pill philosophy.

It is, as expressed in the classic texts, almost exclusively about not worrying about bad circumstances, such as being exiled, being a cripple or being the ruler of the world but being surrounded by terrible people.

It is probably applicable to every woman and man alive. We all suffer set backs, sadness, mortality and loss.

Throughout history people have tried making it into other things. Fortunately we have the classic texts and they are amazing. My favorite being Senecas letters to his brother.

Very glad you are ok. That video is something, made my stomach turn.

I feel we are being fed a line here. I think it's unlikely that access to such important military computing infrastructure woud have been blown to stop Iran hijacking foreign flagged oil tankers.

Either the story is a cover for the real purpose of the operation (most likely), or the story is wildly overblown.

Can I buy from someone who went to all the hassle already? Or are those organizations not allowed to distribute keys?

I don't doubt we saw a very edited version of his defense.

Early versions of android did have a network permission. It was not able to be revoked but at least you knew apps that had no reason to require network access, like early flashlight apps, were not exfiltrating data.

The permission may still exist (it has been a long time since I last wrote an android app) but it is no longer user visible.

The guy you replied to is the CEO of cloudflare. If he says it's OK then I'm pretty sure it's OK!

Yes but the Dark Age specifically refers to Western Europe, in much the same way the disastrous impact of the Mongol Empire on Islamic scholarship, for example the burning of libraries during or after the Siege of Baghdad, barely touched Western Europe. Chances are the Mongols destroyed some advanced mathematics that took centuries to rediscover.

What is a good source of data for spotting wildfires? Any APIs that can give me hot spots in a region?

Thanks for the links. Very interesting.

> I'd not done this until just now, and frankly, it appears that last year's smoke activity was actually greater

Someone linked to a NASA page a few days ago that said the same thing.

"As of August 16, 2019, satellite observations indicated that total fire activity in the Amazon basin was slightly below average in comparison to the past 15 years".

http://web.archive.org/web/20190820090023/https://earthobser...

Since the news story broke they have updated it, saying it was updated to clarify sources yet they substantially changed what they have said:

"Editor’s Note: This story was updated on 22 August 2019 to clarify our data source."

The live page now reads:

"As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. "

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145464/fires-in-bra...

I would have been a lot more honest to say "we incorrectly stated that fires were below average and have updated our position".

I like that for privicy reasons they won't tell you why you were banned. Whose privicy?

Does that just mean "our black box NN has banned you and we won't know or care why" ?

Often unemployment numbers are at least partly political. There are many ways the number can be manipulated. Unemployment of 1% is considered extremely good.

The International Labor Organization defines being employed as anyone who works just one hour a week, which is 10 days per year (at a 40 hour work week).

This leads to countries such as Cambodia (0.3 - 0.5%) and Thailand (0.7%) claiming crazy low unemployment because grandmother sweeps the farmhouse flood once a week [0]. In reality the stats hide poverty. Another way to have high unemployment is to have most of the work done by migrants and deport them as soon as they don't have a job (UAE, 1.6%), or ensure the rent is high enough they are forced to leave if they lose a job (Gibraltar 1%).

In a functional developed economy you need people to move between jobs as supply and demand change, so a certain level of unemployment is expected.

[0] https://www.cambodiadaily.com/editors-choice/cambodias-low-j...

Because jwz appears to have a very short fuse and at one point in time one or a group of users on HN didn't agree with him (as best as I can remember), referrals from HN are redirected to an image of a testicle.

Here is a wayback machine link to avoid the image:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190810115358/https://www.jwz.or...

It sounds like all the drama OpenAI made about not releasing the model was all just marketing. $50,000 is nothing for a nation-state or even just a motivated third party. I had always assumed OpenAI had spent well into the 6 or even 7 figures to train the full model.

MSFT has sort of invested $1 billion into OpenAI so I guess it worked!

> I think it's worth mentioning that GDPR was basically exactly this.

There is very little the GDPR would have done to prevent this.

The data was legitimatly collected from customers. It was leaked because of badly configured server or firewall. The company is no longer in business so no fines (or minimal fines) would be paid.

I thought McDonalds owns a lot of real estate? WeWork just had leases. WeWork is more like hotel chains that have long term leases or licenses for the buildings.