skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something didn't make sense to me: if the weevil evolved in the Himalayas and spread by human contact, how could there be a maize weevil when human colonization of the americas predated agriculture and then restarted only about 600 years ago?

Turns out it goes after all sorts of grains, and is even referred to in the US mostly as a rice weevil. Which is a relief, as otherwise the rest of the article would be dubious. It looks like it was named as such solely because it was first identified as a species in the late 1800s, presumably in a transplanted crop.

It's also annoying that NPR called it "sitophilius" which doesn't make sense (the genus is actually Sitophilus -- "grain lover" which makes more sense, though that typo seems for some reason to be pervasive).
Doctorow, per usual, writes with the certainty of an out of shape sportswriter playing Monday morning quarterback. He just doesn't know what he's talking about.

For example, he says "Uber...allows them to illegally discriminate against people with disabilities" Does he really not know the long history of cab drivers not stopping for black passengers? This has been frontpage news on multiple occasions, most famously with Danny Glover. Multiple friends have told me how much Uber/Lyft have improved this situation.

Meanwhile, Doctorow's meta platform idea literally steals revenue from people who have added tremendous value not only at time of transaction but after via the reputational system and other customer service functions. Nevermind that it would be trivial for Uber to squash this via cancellation fees and driver derankings.

If you want to form a co-op app, go for it. But find a better thought leader than Doctorow.
Oh, I just spent a lot of time trying to root a phone just to get rid of Wiko's constantly nagging "helper" tool and failed. I'll now try this for sure!
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Will they also pull such shit with KaiOS?

I thought I'm a happy camper, when Nokia reissued the 8110. Ahh, no Google spyware, no Apple extorcionist paricing.

How wrong I was.

First of all it comes with Google Maps and Google Assistant. Then after the first software update it puts in Twitter and three crappy games, which full versions need to be bought and which cannot be removed.

Their privacy statement is also noo what I would call encouraging.

Do I really need to shell out for an IPhone after all?
Why post this without even checking your facts?

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9318&idPhone2...
in econ 101 utility is measured in “utils”

eg 1 banana = 10 utils, 1 apple = 5 utils, 1 car = 100 utils, etc

utils are just a proxy for money and/or time which are interchangeable through wages paid for labor

money is our real world way of valuing the utility of goods, labor, and more generally time (the scarcest resource of them all)

utility functions will never describe an individuals preferences perfectly (hell you couldn’t perfectly describe the utility of any of the transactions you make) but they’re useful when describing and predicting aggregate behavior, especially when fed a lot of consumer data (higher confidence)

all of game theory also uses the concept of utility to weigh payoffs and there are many many real world applications of game theory

its not perfect but no models are perfect, that’s why we have statistics and probability theory to guide us as well
That's an assertion that I haven't seen any data to back.

I don't believe either (a) or (b) applies to either xtz or to ada, though ada hasn't yet deployed POS.

I can well believe that there are broken POS implementations, there have been a lot of broken implementations of a lot of things in the space -- but claiming every system is known to be broken or cannot be analyzed is a very bold claim to make.
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Fortunately the backdoor requires physical access to the device, so it's not what worries me. I was more concerned about their data collection, but it looks like they changed to opt-in since:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/oneplus-data-leak-fix,news-2596...

I'm not sure how much I can trust them after that, though. They had a real chance to make a difference and they blew it.
The trend is away from federated services.

Email, the Web, and Usenet were all created before the modal HN user was born. Of those three, Usenet is basically not a going concern (beyond paid binary newsgroups for piracy, honestly). The Web is increasingly siloed off. What federation there is exists largely thanks to commercial CDNs and peering, not user-facing federation that benefits user freedom.

I'm not sure IRC was ever motivated as a federated model. It's true users can run an IRC server, but the main advantage of IRS compared to previous attempts at multi-user chatting (whether asynchronous like BBSes or synchronous like early chat platforms) was that it allowed confederation of servers into server networks. But also my impression is certainly that IRC is moribund with many long-time users having pivoted to Slack or Discord, both centralized.

Rather, where federation is growing, it's largely recent, fringe experiments. That's not necessarily a bad thing, mind you, let a thousand flowers bloom. Mastodon might end up working out for some definition of working out. I doubt PeerTube will.

But in any case, it's more accurate to say that some of the early internet was built on decentralized platforms, some of which were federated, and that recently some tech enthusiasts have recently written some interesting, maybe promising federated platforms. There is definitely not a trend toward federation.
I think, rather, function composition is just piping program output.
Any economic school of thought holds the answer to unknowns in other economic school of thoughts. The idea of following a specific school always struck be as desparate. Any economics thinker worth their salt would never subscribe to just one school as they would know, at least today, that the world isnt predictable and there are fare more externalities to considder. This is also why i am a big opponent of policy guided by economists. They should serve as advisors not policy makers which is often the case today.
Yes, you have to address that kind of attack differently.
No, £35k in the south, where cost of living is a fair bit higher.

£45k pre-tax is top 15% household income nationally...

My point is that I can't afford to pick and choose companies I work for to avoid big tech. I work in .NET, but I have no idea how I'd find a company that doesn't use Office365 these days.

It's not personal usage that funds these companies, it's enterprise usage. Working with (and hence endorsing and funding) software that abusive companies makes is the problem, not the tiny amounts individuals spend.

The only way I know to avoid that is to be self-employed, or own a company yourself.
Just to make a point, there are many Indian dishes that are cooked very sloppily out of the state they are found in. (yes, sloppy even in other states in India, and especially sloppy in the US)
Just as you would need to be in Texas-NC-SC to get the best good BBQ.

The best Indian food I've had in the US is always when a friend's mom is visiting.

Trying an Indian dish in the region it hails from, completely changes your perception of dish.
If you are ever in Delhi, do try their Mughlai cusine. It is the Indian equivalent of meat heaven.
Well this is based on reveal.js, which has been around for years, used by tons of people, and has a commercial product based around it (slides.com).
Ask HN: Anyone living here completely by your rules and rejecting the “normal”?
Most of us live the default life - even those who move thousands of miles away (to other countries, other cultures etc) deviate not a lot.

Anyone here living completely by your own rules? I'm deliberately not giving examples in order to not influence the course of discussion. Just interested in knowing what your rules are and how you're living by them
I'm intrigued. I'm not in the market for a new phone right now as the one I have does not mess too much with android either.

But for the first time in 15 years I think I might consider a Nokia next time I go shopping...
As someone attempting to use a stock samsung rom without google, its possible, but super annoying and buggy. I would not expect any reasonable person with an alternative to go through this, thechie or not. Google has tied into every part of the OS, seemingly for this reason. I am about to throw in the towel and try to sell this for a different used phone with better lineage (or other rom) support. Even lineage does not cut out google integration completely. Your identifiable device details are still sent to google to 'check for internet' constantly.
No, that's not on the roadmap and I doubt it ever will be.

It's a very specific technology, and as long as it can be implemented fairly efficiently 'up the stack' in JS, then it mostly belongs there. Aside from HTTP2 (which is a roadblock now, but not soon) it'll be fine in JS.
Starshits?
That is what I meant.

I applaud efforts such as the impossible burger. But maybe, we should have a gander at the 'very much possible' first.
Ok, touché, good point.
> Pretty sure you can use android without signing into your google account, but most people avoid doing so because its extremely convenient to sync your other devices with your phone.

They avoid it because you can't install any apps (and F-Droid isn't a solution for most people). And without apps you might as well buy a legacy phone.
Can we finally stop talking about “DAU”?
If it is not then the law is the problem (thankfully I'm from one of the countries where such ban would be against the constitution).
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I recommend Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Sussman and Abelson. By the end you'll have learned functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming, and how they're related.

Both the book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html) and a series of video lectures based on it are available online (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...)
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Those are ipad sales, not ipad pro sales. Within the ipad market we don't really know how the ipad pros are doing.

The sales peak you refer to predates the ipad pro.
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Yes, that Grasshopper to me looks like a carefully constructed work-in-progress device whereas the the current one looks like a full scale mockup with shiny wallpaper.

Maybe I overreached with an internet explosion, but the silver craft just screams "spectacle" to me, even if, due to development progress on the Raptors it can indeed do a hop. I've been proven wrong before!
Note that TFA says this is due to regulations. The HN max title length is 95 and I had to shorten it.
I'm not sure about its historical accuracy. For example it says that the whole of Russia in 18th century was Sweden.
Seems like the grouse moors and falcon smugglers could team up and kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
What about OnePlus?
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But if you’re going to do all that why not just put an abstraction in code (that could actually have some automated tests)?
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Something like Flask doesn't take too much more effort to achieve something similar, and will be a lot more flexible, no?
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Good article, but a bit too long for me to participate into discussion. Will read the rest of it later.

This debate between neoclassicals and austrians reminds me of logicians and people from static typing systems endlessly arguing about which logic or type system is the best and complete, without flaws, inconsistencies and paradoxes. They are trying to reconstruct the world from axioms but get stuck at the very bottom in these petty debates.

In the meantime we have people which just whip out Python or other dynamic language, accept its flaws, but produce some real working software which powers the world. Similarly in logic, people just infer generalizations from examples (inductive reasoning) instead trying to build axiomatic truth so that they can reason deductively.

My 'real world' comments to that economic debate.

1. subjectivity. Humans share 99% of DNA not only among themselves but also with pigs. It's evident that some people have subjective preferences, but vast majority of human needs are similar. Housing and food are obviously the largest markets out there

2. welfare, ie. connecting micro to macro
When you observe microparticles of gas (motion, collisions, velocity) you don't get macro (temperature, pressure, density) values until you put the gas into a container, ie. introduce a boundary condition. Similarly for economics, you can observe individual collisions (transactions) but unless you observe what happens at the boundary (scarcity of certain goods) you won't make it to macro values (wealth distribution, poverty)

3. monopoly. You get monopoly when you constrain supply of certain good in the economy. This can happen artificially (pharma industry preventing other companies from entering the market because of inexperience and safety). Or naturally (network effects - all utility (electricity, gas, water, railroad, internet providers, law and justice) companies eventually merging into one). Because of natural monopolies you need a government, but only for those.

The last point about monopolies is the georgist (Henry George) critique of both neoclassicals and austrians. The monopolies are the cause of poverty and unequal wealth distribution, because in the money eventually ends up in the black holes (monopolies) and rarely make it out. The biggest market of all - housing - is a perfect example. All the money ends up parked in real estate.

George back then proposed a remedy. To price 'private property' as a service. The private property owners are those consuming the government services. Eg. Houses require guarding by firefighters, police against squatters and court system to resolve disputes. These services should be financed from taxes based on property then. But nowadays they are financed from taxes on labor (income tax) and consumption (vat, sales taxes). In other words those people that don't own anything pay for the services of those that do own.

It's likely no conspiracy, it's just one of those cases where people measure the thing which is easier to measure, not the one which is important to measure.
Happens when tech is largely driven by ad companies.
Sci-Hub also works because it is convenient. As Netflix and Spotify have shown, convenience trumps morality and to a lesser extent pricing.

Users jailbreaking their device and getting a specific app from a non-official/non-preinstalled app store is not convenient.
Hardly new. It was unwanted a decade ago, when forced down my throat. It just seems people are wising up to the monopoly status. I thought the IE case would have preempted this preinstalled crap. What kind of law can help us seperate hardware, software, and personal rights?
Imagine the impact on energy consumption having to run these ad blockers + running the ad infrastructure. Global warming, is that you?
Good job! Homebrew is, at least for me, essential for using macOS as a true *nix, and most of the changes (implemented or proposed) seem good (e.g., the ability to automatically run cleanup)

I am a little bit worried for the removal of all options that is planned for the 2.0.0 version: I have some formulae installed from source (with additional options) and I like the flexibility that they give. Hopefully the migration to an "options-free" Homebrew will be smooth and some alternative when options are needed (not requiring a lot of third-party taps) will emerge.
Just get a faraday pouch/box for your phone? Turn it off, put it in the pouch/box, pull it out and power it on as needed.

Or just turn it off when not in use.
That's so counter-intuitive. It feels like the sun is a giant gravity well and we just have to give something a bit of a shove in the right direction to fall down into the well. It's not like its rocket science.
Out of interest, why will the exported PDF fail?
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I've read your comment a few times and I can't really tell if you're trying to refute what I said or if you're agreeing with it. I don't think mail order operations ever amounted to more than a tiny fraction of what online purchases are today. They were certainly nowhere near as convenient.

Setting that aside, my point was Amazon had a built-in price advantage that brick & mortar retailers did not. Use tax really should have been the normalizing force there, but no one declares it and it's hard to enforce. So, all things being equal, consumers would shop where they could realize a price savings. The story of brick & mortar retailers transitioning to e-commerce is more nuanced than some titan resistant to change being taken out at the knees by some peppy up and comer. Amazon was quite aware of this and fought very hard against any change in rules regarding collection of sales tax.
Doesn't necessarily need a smartphone,
but you'd need multiple cameras taking the picture at once if anything in the pictures is moving.

I think it'd be better if the cameras are parallel to each other.

I'm not sure how the reconstruction from the depth map works, though. That looks cool.
When I looked at it, I was like, "huh .. it's a lot like reveal.js" and then I looked carefully at the README and it is reveal.js, with extensions/mods.

I've used reveal.js for a while. I found it most useful when I did presentations for multiple meetups on the same open source project. I created a little build tool that let me re-use slides for Ruby, Scala and Python meetups (the service was written in Scala, client in Python and devops was all Ruby, but that's since been migrated to Docker):

https://github.com/bigsense/presentations

http://bigsense.github.io/

Tools like this are great if you have several similar presentations. Some of the additions in Markdeck are things I've kinda hacked in (like terminal output players). Still with a recent presentation where I did everything from scratch, I used the same build process and found it felt a bit much for something that didn't require the shared-slides use case and I wondered if I would have just saved time writing it in a GUI/WYSIWYG tool like OpenOffice or Powerpoint.
I totally agree with you. I think it's pretty pointless to have terabytes of repos for software that then grows stale.

But distributions often say that it's the only way to keep the whole "ecosystem" of a distribution stable.

So? What I think is that Linux "distributions" are growing less and less useful nowadays. On the desktop, no Linux was able to gain significant traction, and many developers are just using Macs and Windows with WSL.

On the server side, ways to "build your own distro" for creating a tuned stack for your purposes ( read: docker images ) exist and seem more useful than standard distro components. Nixos is another take.

Yes, "just apt install foo" is nice, until it isn't. I think we're at a tipping point between the old and new approach.
I would like to echo that everyone should be aware of the coil whine issue when considering this laptop. The problem is that there can be a slight high-pitched and intermittent sound that may or may not drive you crazy if you hear it. It is inconsistent as well and may not be noticeable until after you've used it for a short while (probably within minutes of use, but maybe not when you first play around with it in say a store).

I loved the XPS 13 years back when I first bought it, but this issue caused me to return it directly (but not tell them why). At the time it was important to not mention the issue as the reason, because Dell would insist on sending you back either a fixed laptop or a new one (usually of course the issue would be present). Actually it was a bit worse, since any Dell rep would claim to never have heard of the issue and so you'd have to first go through that back and forth explaining them what was happening. Many customers went back and forth multiple times (and didn't even have a laptop in between the back and forths) and finally after multiple months Dell would refuse a refund and you were left with a laptop that was essentially psychologically unusable. I was a listener on a thread about this on the Dell forums where the same complains would be posted for _years_ with newer versions of the laptop. Their disrespect for their customers shouldn't be forgotten.

So basically it's buyer beware when it comes to this machine. Maybe it's no longer an issue, but Dell does _not_ deserve the benefit of the doubt here. I would consider it again if I could try it ahead of time (i.e. at a store) and only in a situation in which I knew I could return it afterwards (without a restocking fee or anything similar). I recommend others take the same precautions.
I like to see the computer, battery, wifi/cellular radio, etc all be strapped to the my belt rather than next to the eye/brain. It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously.

Whatever on glass/goggle should just be headup display/maybe small camera with small wire connection.
Wow. That's so true. I just got back 5GB. I didn't know about this. Thanks :-)
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The sentence you quoted seems to have no relation to the content of your reply.

Whether or not social science is a lesser form of science (and i may even agree with you that it is) has no bearing on two important questions:

1) Should we separate a person's character from their output. Can we celebrate a person's accomplishments even while recognizing their human flaws. [I say yes, and I think some go too paint both with the same brush]

2) Should we stop turning a blind eye to misogyny, sexual harassment, and generally hostile work environments based on an aura of genius around the person creating this, or is it just an inherent "the end justifies the means" scenario. [To this, I also say yes. One's genius is not diminished by having to be civil, respectful, or not discriminatory. See: Linus Torvald's recent revelations].

That is to say, we need to both celebrate people like Richard Feynman's accomplishments, but do so honestly and transparently that they were a product of a different time and certain of their actions are simply not acceptable in a modern society. That means neither glossing over their flaws nor dismissing them for them.

In that sense, both "“predatory behaviour towards women,” without further explanation", and "Surely You're a Creep, Mr Feynman" are equally not helpful.

Feynman was not a creep for his time. And his predatory behaviour needs full explanation and description in discussions of his work.
>It's not just FB, my Samsung S9 came preloaded with 'undeletable' Microsoft apps too...

Alas, it's true.

The crapware bloat has infested the entire industry. Sometimes I just don't understand? Don't some of these Samsung phones cost hundreds of dollars? Why annoy people who've already paid you with the crapware?

From software companies like Google and facebook, to hardware behemoths like Samsung, the entire industry has become addicted to this stuff.
We can separate regard for the scientist from regard for the science.
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Third parties won't get you in trouble as long as you have a DPA, but you need to get it.

Customer IDs are fine as long as they can't be associated with other information anywhere else, but if they can, it's an issue.

Sanitation is easy but someone, somewhere will screw it up when you're not looking.
So visiting a web page without ublock and the like is akin to idling your car in the morning