skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not implying that you should blindly distrust the app store your device ships with. I'm not claiming that experts aren't experts, or that you specifically are an expert. I don't know where you got these impressions from. I'm particularly puzzled by your choice of software licenses as an analogy, given that they were designed by experts in the field specifically to maximize freedom (whereas app stores were not) and have held up in this regard to sustained scrutiny over many years (the default app stores have failed miserably here).

What I am claiming is that you don't have freedom if you can't make these choices for yourself. Sane defaults are fine. Shipping with a prepackaged app store is fine. Even having to reboot the device into a separate mode and enter a password in order to change sensitive system settings is fine. But if I want to add F-Droid, I need to be able to do that and it needs to be a first class citizen. I need to be able to remove Google Play if that's what I want to do. On iOS, there is not and can never be a third party app store under current policy. That is most definitely a restriction on your freedom as a user; I do not believe that any cohesive argument can be made against that statement.

Just because you have the option to opt-out of vendor restrictions doesn't mean that you have to do so. For example, my mobile device won't allow me to disable secure boot or to install my own keys, and it is incredibly difficult to locate one for sale that will. In contrast, my laptop will allow me to do both of those things if I so choose. Doing so requires rebooting into the UEFI shell, which I have the option of password protecting. None of this can be done by a malicious program from user space barring a truly massive security hole. As such, I do not believe that this freedom negatively impacts my security in any way.
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It's billion devices and millions of users. Monopoly or not it affects large number of users
There is a deeper truth that marketing people (like yourself I am guessing?) don't want to admit: what you do is wrong. To it's very core. You're attempting to take away people's free will, using the dirtiest tactics one could imagine. Emotional manipulation, exploiting peoples insecurities, their need to feel a certain level of status from their peers: these are staple tactics of a marketer, and social media influencers are the most horrid incantation of this dystopian reality.

Note that I distinguish marketing from mere ads, which (one hopes) are just trying to impart information. I have no problem with you saying you have skateboard for sale at $50. When you pay a 19yr old model to stand there looking cool with a sultry look on her face, thats not advertising, its manipulation. Sure it works, its even legal, but it's a very evil thing.

https://youtu.be/_86qb7hlbJI says it all (only 50 second long and very funny, be sure to check out his other stuff - comedy is usually greatest when its saying something true).
You can see the previous flight made by the same lion air plane that crashed here[1]. They not only did not declare an emergency but they contained the flight as normal and flew for over an hour with no MCAS and no electric trim.

[1]: https://leehamnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Previous-f...

I should point out they found the stab cut out procedure by trial and error and were able to maintain control of the plane simply by counteracting the errant downward trim. The reason the Ethiopian plane crashed is that they didn't execute the airspeed disagree procedure and left the throttles on basically maximum.

Yes MCAS is an issue, But since no one on this site has gotten this right I might as well point that out
How is TV a defense of videogames?
And what if you spent your life learning in other venues, could not still learn these things?
this isn't at all the same book. the OP is about complexity theory. the book you've linked to is basically math for a cs curriculum.
This tech is just now making it into military aircraft in the F-35 (it’s designed to compensate for failures or combat damage while keeping the plane’s handling relatively consistent), so I would guess it’ll be a while before we see a civilian version.
Vendors of digital goods could use other ways to price it. For example, the product costs $50, but show us your tax returns and we'll discount to $25.

'Student discount' is the same sort of thing, and common across Europe.
My null hypothesis on reading this article is that the Secret Service did exactly what Mr "NSA Hacker" Williams suggested onto an isolated linux laptop -- and in fact this was sophisticated enough malware to start attacking it when it wasn't even mounted. So the agent shut it down and sent it all off to a better equipped lab.

Which is actually pretty sane procedure.

I think techcrunch here is trying to sell us on the idea that we're all smarter than the stupid secret service in order to get clicks through manufactured outrage.
Most of the BAT being donated is coming directly from the User Growth Pool.

Do you block ads without the publisher's consent? If so, you are in a much more morally precarious situation.
> If it isn't being selected, then clearly there's insufficient competition to drive better prices and better packages.

I cannot overstate the absolute brilliance of this comment.

It is absolutely critical that we all recognize terrain has no influence whatsoever on communication technology. There is literally no difference between a link in the rocky mountains and the great plains. With sufficient competition the price will be identical. It's not possible for regional conditions to influence price, if there is any difference, the market will correct that and someone will become very wealthy.

It's also important to recognize the operators of technology have no preferences in living and working conditions. the vast majority of telecom operators in jackson hole are willing to move to san francisco with virtually no effort. And vice versa, there's hardly anyone in san francisco that would be unwilling to relocate.

This comes down to a fundamental tenet of economics. If you see a $100 bill laying on the ground, that's the indication you need to go to the doctor. It's not possible the money would simply be laying on the ground. You're hallucinating.

Perhaps most importantly, we must recognize that capital will simply flow to where the opportunity exists. If only one low quality provider exists in a location, it's basically zero effort to bring in a million or ten million dollars to install a more efficient infrastructure. Perhaps a community waits a year or two, but it's basically a blip that access is unusually expensive.

In any case, it's been a long time since i've read such a brilliant analysis on HN. It's just a fantastic marriage of theoretical understanding and a deep deep knowledge of how theory meets reality.

All right, enough condescending mocking.

There's a reason it's always a town of 500 people that's the most dangerous in the country. small markets have weird results. You're not wrong, it's true that eventually it'll all balance out.

Your breezy disconnected comment is insulting to the reality people face today. An ever so slightly more sophisticated analysis can solve a _ton_ of problems today. Your casual disconnected analysis is the kind of thing that would completely overlook the opportunity provided by VC capital.

It ain't easy. but a few small pushes can have a huge, outsized impact in these small markets.
What's non-intuitive about climate science is that the climate is a non-linear system.

You may have heard of the "Butterfly Effect". It comes from ideas set out by MIT Meteorologist Edward Lorenz. In his seminal paper "Deterministic non-periodic flow" (1963), he set out a model of atmospheric convection and showed that temperature and fluid motion interact very non-linearly as one feedbacks into the other. This means a small change in one, can have little impact in the other. But doing another small change in one can cause a feedback loop which creates a huge effect in the other. In his words, "one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever".

The scary conclusion this leads to is that the climate doesn't always change gradually. After decades of gradual change from temperature increases, it can hit a tipping point where a feedback loop occurs leading to very rapid change, very suddenly.

And unfortunately we don't know exactly where this will occur. Many climate scientists believe we're already there.
The carbon is a business model.
Yeah it really seems to me like a highly expressive data analysis language with a tightly integrated column-store database system could have saved many, many millions of dollars and person-hours compared to Hadoop and Spark.
The Windows XP of passenger jets.
I'm working on an indicator next.
No one, especially the Secret Service should randomly plug in a strange USB stick.

It blows my mind that someone from the secret service wasn't informed that they shouldn't plug evidence from a suspected spy into their laptops.
As an aside, I loved Asterix as a kid and wasn't aware of any contemporary personalities! It has stuck as one of the favorite comics of my childhood -- along with Lucky Luke -- to the point me and my brothers can quote randomly from almost any issue. As an adult, I noticed the modern world references, but maybe because of the ties to my childhood, they remain secondary. Asterix and Lucky Luke are timeless and a beloved part of my youth :)
Blocking ads and depriving publishers of income is a scam. You are stealing from content creators. BAT gives more revenue to content creators than Google ever would.
Sugar really is an addiction and it's very hard to escape it due to its vicious cycle. You may stop eating for a while but as soon as you think "just this once" it's very hard to stop again. Or maybe it's just me and my lack of will power but I did quit tobacco. I think tobacco not being sold and advertised everywhere I go probably helped.
Yeah, I realised that a big problem is that for a person next to me, I look the same whether I play a game, read a book, learn something, chat with someone... I'm pretty sure what looks like a generic "spends time on the phone" is not a great idea for kids. When I have mine, I'm going to have to make an effort to go back to physical books at least and do things like learning something on a big visible screen, rather than privately on a mobile.
Can confirm. Moved from US back to Australia. Had one child born in USA, one in Australia. Neither birth was super-complicated (both in maternity hospitals)... The most expensive thing about the Australian birth process was the parking - had to pay an exorbitant $24/night to park in an open lot. So the whole thing cost about $36 or so.

I forgot the fees on top of our insurance in the US (it being >16 years ago) but it was pretty steep.
Pretty much all of continental Europe (including wealthy countries such as Germany) have iPhone market share at less than 20%; the UK is the outlier there.
Here's a map from the FCC that will let you look up a location and see what service the FCC thinks is available there [1].

[1] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/
The digital goods sellers are going to have a field day if these laws end up allowing "Sure you can 'own' the game, but you can't 'play' it".
That was a scary and sad read.
Well I haven't released anything yet :) Can you elaborate?
Since the technology is based on knative, it should in theory be possible to run these on a local k8s instance. It would support some debugging use cases.

I do agree as far as cold starts and runaway expenses go, although those issues seem inherent with FaaS.
I was at the dentist today because I managed to chip a tooth yesterday, and needed it fixed. Before the procedure, they asked if I wanted an estimate, I said sure, and got one in a minute.

The dental industry works the same as the medical, I have a half-useless insurance that covers too little, and out-of-pocket expenses are always higher than you expect. But if they can do estimates before a procedure, why the hell can't the medical industry do the same?
So... Semver? That seems like a great idea.
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Not directly about the article but I am annoyed that the FB AI blog is very much a part of FB the social network. While reading the blog I got three useless notifications (boxes in the bottom left corner). The whole page has no other indication that I am logged into FB nor any option to log out.
It's a beta.

It's reasonable for a company not to guarantee support timeframes during a beta program.
Did you check your Github repos and associated commit history for accidental push of secret files? There's an article on the HN front page describing secret leakage in Github repos (the most common is Google API keys, go figure)[1]. I imagine somebody out there has a bot to monitor pushes in realtime to extract secrets. You or a team member might have leaked keys in a similar manner.

[1]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/08/how-bad-can-it-git-chara...
As a general rule, i'd guess top level athletes don't have the best outcomes when it comes to long term health outcomes for precisely this reason: at the elite level, there's a trade of between maximising short term personal performance and long term well being.
Google Cloud has had zero dead products in a decade existence. Just because Google phased out a couple browser extensions and a RSS feed reader doesn't mean they have a "horrendous track record" when it comes to real enterprise-tier services such as Cloud.
500 and it's a deal
I guess pilot retraining will always be time consuming, but can anything be done about recertification so that new designs don't face this issue?
> What a miserable feeling, chasing numbers, producing and contributing nothing real to humanity.

You just described 80% of financial services...
The point is not necessarily that secure boot will be enforced by the hardware, but that this creeping centralization of control will bleed into the network stack, which would leave you with a useless experience if you did opt out.
I used to be deathly afraid of flying until I took a flight in Costa Rica in a small 20 passenger propeller plane through a storm. The turbulence was so bad, you could see the pilots barely holding on to the controls, people were screaming and we were bouncing off our seats.

When we landed, I couldn't believe a plane could survive turbulence like that, and the pilots didn't really seem disheveled.

Ever since then, I've never been afraid of flying again.
Again why are you associating money with freedom?

If there are not much innovations happening on other platforms then why are Apple afraid to allow side loading?
I've been reading through your comments, you are a total fucking penis.
> And the more I program the more I prefer stupid and mechanical things when reliability is on the line.

Magic is great. Until it's not.
Pretty sure the answer to all of those is yes.
Is there a size limit on the containers?

That's a problem I hit on Lambda frequently.
You don't need to know in android as well. It's even easier.
I had one of these as a kid. It was awesome!! I believe it was my first exposure to programing. I even have a picture of me with it. Plaid shirts and programming. Not much has changed in ~40 years.

https://blog.buildbotics.com/content/images/2018/12/1-oeEOUx...
Go travel the world and stay in hostels
"Refusing" is a bit strong here.

I agree this was a bug, but hardly a remote code exploit. The thread is very level headed and someone else filed the CVE. In the OSS community I run in this is normal, in fact I'd say it's very common for the primary developer to have a differing opinion about severity. But security doesn't depend on one bug ticket or one maintainer. There are many entities and teams at play that check and balance.
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I think this comment is right on the mark. The core question parents should be asking is, how is my child engaging with the game? If it's a few hours of spending time with friends, great. Even if it's many more hours and they are engaging in a competitive manner that can be a rewarding experience. However I suspect that the much more common modality is a mixture of active and passive consumption, which can quickly become passive due to some elements of the current gaming environment. My personal experience with ~3K hours of Dota throughout high school and early college was highly mixed, with periods of intense engagement and many many more of mindless playing or watching twitch (outside of the 3K in-game hours).

I think that there are valid concerns to the high potential for passive time-sinking in these modern games which exist with an entire ecosystem of a competitive scene, streaming personalities, skins, friends, and more. There are healthy ways to engage with each of the elements of these ecosystems, but it is something that should be discussed and monitored.
The app for my bicycle computer will be obsolete before my bike. On the other hand, my car computer has been running flawlessly for 25 years without any updates.
Asking this as a foreigner - how is the mobile internet connectivity in such areas? (3G, 4G). I wonder if 5G will help such areas where it is too costly to provide cable internet.
I'm currently doing the Digital Nomad thing, wandering around the world building a product.

So many "influencers" out there. Usually not only "growing their audience", but now running courses on "how to live your dream by becoming an Instagram Influencer while travelling". The industry appears to be eating itself (this is also true of the nomad thing, too - so many "coaches" and "mentors" out there who will teach you how to achieve the "nomad lifestyle").

I'm in the lucky position of being able to code for decent money while travelling, so I get to watch them hustle their arses off trying to make it work. I would not want to be in their position. The market is declining, the competitors are increasing, and the option of going home and getting a "normal" job again feels like total failure.

I get the rage in TFA's article, but all I feel is pity.
I'll try: it depends on the environment. With some people, grabbing a guitar and singing is an interactive time. With others, it's playing a game together. Sometimes they like only one side of that.

It's not about feeling bad or jealous. It's that playing a guitar in a room full of uninterested gamers would be as awkward as playing guitar hero in a party where nobody enjoys casual games.
How do you install serverside hooks in GitHub?
Almost certainly not an issue on Apple hardware. Maybe on discount motherboards.
Google killed many popular products without any proper reason. Remember Google Reader??!
The technical problem is that to protect system and user security and privacy, third party signed apps would be very limited. This is under the assumption that most users have a limited capacity for understanding the security and privacy ramifications of unfettered access by apps. (Basically - if you can understand this, you already know how to side-load apps onto Android/iOS devices)

For instance, you might have a choice to read-only access to the filesystem and user hardware, or be allowed network access.

Without a static policy, the only choice that someone like Apple or Google would have to rampant abuse would be to blacklist the 3rd party key. This might mean blacklisting an entire repo if the repo owner is not properly vetting apps - which would likely be perceived as way more an abuse of power than the current gate-keeper model.

The non-technical reason is that there is zero financial incentive for a company to risk breaking their security model and affect their reputation, just so that other companies have the ability to not do revenue sharing.
Thee whole purpose of monopolies an the actual subsidies that they take with glee is to cover these costs. I completely disagree, Congress should compel these people to provide what they stated. If Romania can provide fiber for their rural populations for cheaper than we have there's no excuse for not being able to provide internet in the United States for all but the most remote locations.
What the...? Almost a thousend a month? That's 12k a year, just paid by employers. Where is the money going?
After the Brian Wansink thing, I have a natural skepticism of nutrition science coming out of Cornell, especially with a hypeworthy subject, glossy photos and a PR campaign.
> Don't they always adapt to different rule sets anyway? There is one set at home, one at school, one when they go visit the grand parents and one for whoever is babysitting.

This is more about toddlers than school-age. By the time they hit school, they're already building on top of early age experience. Which is crucial for later development.

The problem is they don't know what to expect. Humans are pack animals. As long as they know what rules to follow, they tend to follow. But once they don't know what to follow... They start making their own rules since, well, they need some sort of rules.

This is one of the reasons why dropping the kid off at different places with different people at early age (like 0-2 years) is not that good. My wife used to work at kindergarten and according to her experience, there's a massive difference between classes where they have same people working with them and where staff changes every few months. Same applies to elementary school. Much less effect after that though.

> There is a lot of overlap but a lot of exceptions/infractions depending on the context. Plus kids are more or less constantly probing for edge cases and try to push the boundaries naturally.

Yes. But the problem is when there're lots of people with different edge cases and different boundaries. Then they learn that if one person doesn't bend, they can just go to someone else and that person will do what they want. Thus boundaries effectively don't exist. Only obstacles you can go around.
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"And paper manuals? Are they expecting to use iPads for in flight documents or something? Shall we compare failure states of paper vs tablets?"

That cat is already out of the bag. "According to the FAA, Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 EFB may act as a substitute for the paper manuals that pilots are otherwise required to carry with them. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_flight_bag
This is just a other step in towards total control of our computing. We are seeing deplatforming, banning, blocking, etc, across large parts of the internet and this will only continue to grow. Britain is now proposing broad powers to regulate the internet to force removal of content they see not fit (not sure why this isn’t larger news on HN, maybe I missed it).

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/business/britain-internet...
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Thanks, you've just convinced me to make my Pinboard bookmarks public (after I clean them up).
> Google Cloud has had zero dead products in a decade existence.

Didn't they just 10x the price of Maps api calls recently?
I'm on the fence on how bad the regulatory system is. Boeing has a massive incentive to make safe aircraft (they're seeing it first-hand right now), and modern commercial aircraft might be too complex for the FAA to effectively certify without input from manufacturers.
Free will is highly overstated though: as the parent comment said, everything you think and believe and thus do is linked to a particular social context. That's true for the stuff you buy, the stuff you believe in, the things you think are "wrong" or "right" or "normal" or "abnormal". When you start looking/living in other societies you realise that all of these is just cultural norms.