skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better to support returns?

And maybe better protection for items not explicitly boxed to support mail-order/delivery? (Although as noted elsewhere in this discussion, maybe Amazon could use its power to require boxing better suited to their needs from the manufacturers...)
Beware! Beware! Beware of the time sink that is watching "Begin Japanology" episodes!
I think this would be less of a concern since this service is really only of interest to people who specifically want to avoid Google Play Services in general. The Amazon app store presents the same kind of privacy challenges, only just not as deeply integrated with the phone.

I'm slowly moving my current Android phone to a mix of web-based apps (Uber PWA is good) and native apps released via F-Droid.
ex-designer I thought
Skip the "analysis": https://www.scribd.com/document/409788583/Apple-Supreme-Cour...
> Elasticsearch database

Considering that ES db aren't secured by default, it's not surprising that someone downloaded the data
> In a fast paced action game, everything tends to stimulating. In software development... its mixed bag for most of us!

Yes, this was indeed my point (alongside the micro-tasks point in my other reply): games are made to be flashy, stimulating and exciting. They're made to pull your attention, which makes them easier to focus on for someone with ADHD.
Another article for more context.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/26/iphone-...

> iPhone users can sue Apple over “monopolistic” prices in the iOS App Store, prices that a group of consumers allege are driven higher by the commissions Apple charges independent appmakers.
Yes, the main issue was a complete lack of political representation.

I don't think I said anything about the sole reason being taxation. What I said was that limited political representation was not the issue, a complete absence was. I'm glad we agree on that.
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This words was on a car from film Dumb and Dumber with Jim Kerry
> It wouldn't take much to seed the initial culture with this idea.

I don't want to bend over backwards to defend a company that certainly could have done this. But, sadly, this strikes me as plain old "humanity at work." I think many of us have subconscious/instincts to evaluate people on status cues and kids don't yet know enough social conventions not to make that kind of thing explicit. Sadly, some adults may model this bad behavior too.
https://drexl.me/guides/wireguard-pihole-vpn-setup.html should get you there.
I'm also a big fan of school uniforms. Ditto for standardized school breakfasts and lunches as well.
Is it odd that the headline and article imply Amazon created the tech, then halfway through it's clear they are implementing a solution many other competitors have?

Seems like marketing copy regarding Amazon, possibly being behind in implementation of a common solution.
IMO, video games have become an addiction-based industry. It's all about the dopamine response. For many kids (and adults), video games are their primary social outlet.

Social media, modern television, are also addiction-based IMO. The magic of the internet and a/b testing to drive increased engagement has made anything that can be exploitative completely exploitative.
I see no indication that this was “weaponized.” Assange was wanted for questioning in Sweden. He was in the UK and would have been arrested and extradited. This is all completely normal. It went off the rails when he sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, which was his own choice.

Supposedly he did this because he was afraid that he’d be hauled off to Guantanamo Bay or whatever, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

At any rate, we should separate these things. The whistleblowing done by Assange and the rape (allegedly) done by Assange are unrelated. Talking about the whistleblowing should not involve minimizing the rape.
I was going to (very slightly) disagree, but the idea that society is slower than technology is an angle that needs to be stated out loud a lot more. We can't out pace machines and its a fair reason to tax them for the time being.

That said, I don't necessarily believe "society is slow to catch up" should be a long term problem. It should be something the government mandates for x years -- so that it has a timeline to get its act together and build society towards the future.
> engage auto-pilot for "non-interesting" tasks.

Routine is useful. My life is full of mini routines, although not necessarily making as cohesive as a picture as they could, there are certainly plenty of gaps.

I have a bad problem where things go to shit if a normal "auto-pilot" task of mine has to changed.

Simple example, I always have my keys in my pocket, I feel for them as I walk out the door. They're there, I continue. Same thing with my truck (it has manual locks) - I feel for the big plastic on the key, then close the locked door.

However, when leaving the house without pockets (in dirtbike gear), there is room for things to go wrong for me.

I can't just check that pocket. So I either have to replay putting the keys in my bag or not be lazy and check the bag.

I've had to learn to not be lazy and require physical proof... because last time it turns out they were indeed in the bag, _but the bag was in the house_.
I believe it is because of a weird distinction between "direct" and "indirect" calls in javascript. The spec says that an indirect call is guaranteed to execute in the global context, but a direct call will execute in whatever context it's in.

The `(0, eval)` makes it an indirect call by evaluating an expression that returns the function.

This is really timely. I just ran into an issue this weekend where I tried to generalize a function call like this (unaware of the direct vs. indirect semantics), and TypeScript yelled at me about it. Looks like it was trying to evaluate it in the global context, so the error makes sense now.
This effect existed way before modern advertising, right? Kids have always formed status hierarchies based on the wealth of their parents, which could be signaled with clothes, transportation, and basic stuff like that. I guess it might be important that this is more intrusive (because kids get less respite from it when they go home), but it's not clear to me that's crucially different. I remember spending a lot of time at home worrying about whether I'd have the right clothes to wear to school the next day.
> twice the speed = twice less developers in a blunt way

Except that's not how that works. Increasing the productivity of a job does not eliminate it. A job is eliminated when it's no longer necessary.

Unless you live in a parallel dimension, we're both in the world where there's more and more software development being done every day. Twice the speed results in twice the output, not half the developers.
Become a hunter and harvest deer meat instead of purchasing cow meat. You will be participating in sustainability of forests and wild game populations and helping to fund your local wildlife and fisheries agency. Deer populations have reached record levels of around 33 million in the U.S. alone, and they are very destructive to the forests (and suffer horrible deaths in the winter as they overgraze and strip the land of all edibles). The meat is very lean and nutritious.

Entomophagy is also an option -- eat grasshoppers. Insect protein is high quality, low fat, and very abundant. It's lower on the food chain than mammalian protein, easily grown, and can be prepared into tasty dishes (more common in Africa and Asia than in the U.S. and Europe).
For those of you ready to fall down this rabbit hole, I've created this just for you:

http://Japanology.tv

Pull requests / data updates welcome :)
/s/would/would not/
> Nobody would use Hacker News for that matter.

Hacker News is literally advertising / lead gen for YCombinator.
You can install 3rd party app stores on Android devices.

Apple forces all developers to only use their app store, and then makes them pay 30%.
Android can side load, use alternative stores. Samsung phones for instance have Samsung store (Galaxy) as well.
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For a potential preview of what might be featured as the next keyboard on MacBook Pros, go to the Apple store, find the one of the wireless black Magic Keyboards. While not 100% like the good ol' pre-touchbar MacBook Pro, it's still significantly more key travel. There's hope yet.
Amazon offers to help employees start delivery business
right, but i would say do a superficial pass through of all of them and then study more the ones that FEEL logical. The ones that work best with your existing logic will likely serve you most.
I argue from position 1 that we should be looking for the next breakthrough, CO2-emission-free power source. I'm extremely grateful that some people are. Wind and solar are highly inefficient, expensive and difficult to scale[1] and are very unlikely to be an effective solution long-term. Nuclear power sources have great potential among technologies we have access to today and while there are real, technical drawbacks (setup cost, security, waste) there are ongoing, significant research projects in each area[2]. Beyond nuclear, the seeming holy-grail would be to find a CO2-emission-free power source that is 10-100x more effective at the same or lower cost. And why can't we? Our ability to imagine what is possible in the future has been shown time and again to be very limited, in general.

Arguing position 1 amounts to taking an interest in and investing in efforts that will allow the world to progress along its current trajectory without CO2-emitting power sources.

"... why are you surprised to be forced to defend their wrongheadedness?" - I'm not... I just avoid having conversations with folks that would jump to this conclusion without hearing my point of view.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/08...
[2]http://energy.mit.edu/news/mit-releases-interdisciplinary-st...
The in-game purchase (and indirect gambling) problem is very well known, but no one's done anything about it. It's just too tantalizing a prospect for publishers/game companies I guess.

I think TF2[0] might have been the first on the scene with hats in 2009, and other games followed suit once they saw the success... But many of the games I can think of (Counter Strike for one) were aimed at a somewhat older demographic.

[0]: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Item_timeline
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> what’s the argument against diagnosis?

I know you didn't ask me, but as somebody who just realized he could have a mental illness, the thing that terrifies me most is being branded. Technically, on the books, ADHD is an incurable mental illness. That means, once diagnosed, you're forever mentally unstable in the eyes of both the law and potential business partners.

I doubt I'll bother to get officially diagnosed. The risk is too great and the upside too small. I've been coping this long with it and now that I know what I'm dealing with I can find ways to cope with it even better.
Question: How can Apple have a monopoly if a customer can decide to buy a competitor's phone to use as they please (Android, etc). That's where I get lost. The Windows/Netscape made sense since the claim was that Windows dominated the market almost completely (around 90% on those times?). Can I sue any other hardware device company (smart fridges, smart tvs, rokus) for monopoly since I can't load my own apps on them? Anyways, having an alternate app store on iOS sounds good to me.
Doctor of the Church means a teacher whose teachings are universally applicable to everyone in the Catholic Church. It has nothing to do with authority. Many nuns were traditionally teachers of children, too. And each of the female doctors of the church, as far as I know, where nuns who submitted all their teachings to their superiors and confessors, who then examined and verified her writings for orthodoxy (1 Timothy 2:14) before recommending them for others or permitting them to be published (cf. Imprimi Potest).
Then the company used them to develop facial recognition tools
This is going to be an interesting legal case when a vehicle using Openpilot is involved in an accident.
Nobels are given by committees, so they are not necessarily a fair comparison.

Olympic medals are more comparable to IMO medals, and the latter were won disproportionately by communists states with dedicated preparation: China in the last 30 years, before that the Soviets, the Hungarians, Romanians and East Germans. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Oly...
> But if the discussion actually influence real-world decisions then it matters a great deal what people actually believe

I really don't understand why more people are not getting this.

It can be plenty consequential in the real world, I said from the start of this thread that someone could be arguing a popular opinion that nobody in the room happens to hold.

This happens all the time in silicon valley as an example: a bunch of educated, comparatively wealthy, mostly white men make decisions. Maybe they are not very in touch with the opinions of the vast majority of humans who fall outside that category. What I am advocating for this case is the ability to have empathy for those who are unlike you, step outside your biases and adopt an argument that is not your own. This is a good skill. People are falling over themselves trying to call that lying and universally bad or nearly so.
12% fat on a 150 pound person is good for about 63000 kcal. 31 days at 2000 kcal per day.
> Drop speed limits? Statistical deaths

In that case, is there an increase or decrease in statistical deaths? We had a recent change here and I'm interested on how it might change things
Does the 30% take into account the transfer fee ? Because as an artist, this is a supplementary charge in Bandcamp. So I actually receive 77.5% on a 10€ sale. It's better than 30%, but it's not 15%.
How easy is it to learn/remember what all the keys do? I've tried nethack a few times, and had a very... Dwarf-Fortress like experience, in that I had no idea how to accomplish anything via the opaque UI.
I wrote comments on this case here in the past, and not gonna rewrite them, so here is the TL;DR:

This was not unexpected but precedent was on Apple's side.

Apple was basically playing the "whoa, we don't sell apps, we just make an app store. They buy apps from the developers" card.

This is technically true.

In that situation, Illinois Brick/etc would normally say consumers cannot sue you, only app developers can.
Most of the reasoning in those decisions is around how hard it is to calculate damages, etc.

However, the court refused to buy it.

The abstract they give is pretty easy to understand:
"Second, Apple’s theory is not persuasive economically or legally. It would draw an arbitrary and unprincipled line among retailers based on their financial arrangements
with their manufacturers or suppliers. And it would permit a consumer to sue a monopolistic retailer when the retailer set the retail price by marking up the price it had paid the manufacturer or supplier for the good or service but not when the manufacturer or supplier set the retail price and the retailer took a commission on each sale.

Third, Apple’s theory would provide a roadmap for monopolistic retailers to structure transactions with manufacturers or suppliers so as to evade antitrust claims by consumers and thereby thwart effective antitrust enforcement. "
> So going solely by that figure, as long as the gain in efficiency from automating a job is > 42% it's a net positive for the economy?

No, because 1$ to a poor person is actually 1.12$ returned to the economy. It gets even bigger when you go into 1$ to education.

>And that's even _if_ you assume 100% of the savings goes directly into the company owner's pockets and isn't simply being re-invested somewhere else.

Well that's the thing. Even if you give money to wealthy people they're not going to invest more than a poor person will with it. A person in poverty has immediate needs to spend the money on where a wealthy person does not.
It's not really clear from the article, but the prize here doesn't appear to be forcing Apple to pay hundreds of millions of dollars of penalties. (The court didn't even award penalties, but merely cleared the way for end-users to sue Apple under anti-trust regulations.)

The real prize is forcing Apple to allow users to install software from any source:

> Apple Inc. v. Robert Pepper is the latest salvo in a legal fight over Apple’s iOS App Store. A group of iPhone buyers are claiming that Apple’s locked-down ecosystem artificially inflates the prices of apps because all developers must go through a single store that takes a cut of their revenue. The buyers argue that Apple has established an unlawful monopoly over iOS apps, and they’re asking the courts to make Apple allow third-party iOS apps, in addition to repaying every iOS user it’s overcharged in the past.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17479480/supreme-court-ap...

By extension, any company maintaining a walled garden could be sued for anti-trust violations by end users. That hasn't been possible until now due to a previous Supreme Court ruling called "Illinois Brick":

> Arguing for Apple, lawyer Daniel Wall told the justices that the iPhone users’ claim is exactly the kind of claim that is prohibited under the Supreme Court’s 1977 decision in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, which held that only consumers who are direct purchasers of a product can bring a lawsuit seeking the triple damages available for violations of federal antitrust laws: Here, Wall said, the only theory of damages in the case is that Apple charges app developers a 30-percent commission, which in turn causes the developers to increase the prices that consumers pay for apps. Therefore, Wall argued, it is the app developers, not the iPhone users, who are direct purchasers under Illinois Brick.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/11/argument-analysis-justice...
... and when they grow up to adults, they stay the same assholes as they were as the teenagers, just learn to better hide it to conform to the social norms of their new group.
The problem with that is that that basically ensures most blue laws stay on the books by way of legislative DoS. As every repeal bill takes up the same legislative slot as adding a new law.

An approach with sunset dates ensure the most important laws are at the forefront of national discourse, and ensures that lawmaking doesn't degenerate to "keep trying til you pass it, then smooth sailing because no one ever actively looks at these things anyway."

Legislated law is not something to be treated lightly; especially at the Federal level in the United States, where the protection of liberty is a first class objective of the government's existence in the first place.

Vote to uphold, I assert, is a clearer demonstrator of the Will of the People rather than vote to repeal. Vote to Repeal allows refuge in obscurity for keeping laws in force that most would not even wish to have in effect just by virtue of the majority of people being ignorant of them.

Also, it cuts down on the tendency of law scholasticism to create a privileged class through the exploitation of loopholes, and archaic blue laws.

If a law is truly worth having, let it be tested in the fires of reaffirmation. That which is without question, should pass with minimal controversy. That which is in woeful need of update or reformulation, will be brought to the forefront of the national consciousness and reshaped to better serve the interests of the Public. That which is no longer the Will of the People may be safely set aside to fade into the gentle repose of history, and the Public shall enjoy a restored liberty for it's having done so.

My two cents.
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Low prices could make for an antitrust case against Amazon
> "You can't hop into a Fortnite match as a default without being singled out"

If that's true, then a lot changed in a months since I played it with my son. Admittedly Fortnite culture isn't as strong here, and my son has already lost interest (he's back to Minecraft and Roblox again).

That people would bully someone over not spending money is this, seems really weird to me. Then again, some kids will use anything to bully others, but my impression is those kids are fairly rare.

Could it be that this is different across different cultures? My impression as an outsider is that bullying is far more common and accepted in the US than in Europe (they even elected a bully as president), and I've heard about studies that Americans are more likely to kick down to people below them on the social ladder, whereas in many other places people are more likely to punch up and help people below them.

Also: the importance of hollow status symbols. I don't see kids at my son's school care about about such things. Sure, a cool skin is cool, but not as much as achievements are.

My personal opinion on the purchase of skins is that if you end up paying for a game that's free, you've lost.
It seems that the Supreme Court only ruled that users can bring the case against Apple (not only developers), not that Apple’s 30% fee was a case of monopoly abuse.
> I am surprised Kavanaugh joined the Liberal block on the vote.

I'm not. There is a pretty big cloud of illegitimacy over his head. He needs allies in case the next administration encourages some of the proposed inquiries to proceed.
At I understand, this specifically affects Apple because there is no possible alternative marketplace on iOS. As much as Google sets up roadblocks to installing apps outside of Google Play, it's still straightforwardly possible to install FDroid or the Epic Store or whatever you want.

I don't know much about Amazon's Android fork, but I assume it's possible to sideload an appstore there too (though I could be wrong).
It's possible you missed it in my edits as I was editing things in, but the answer is, it didn't follow you home. When I got home, I could be broadcasted at by the TV, but I had no peer-interactive media other than voice phone calls, which are structurally unsuitable for this style of peer pressure. The TV could set the parameters of the peer pressure, and then I could be pressured at school, but there was no dynamic, real-time blending of the corporate agenda-setting and my actual peers reinforcing it in a live loop.

And if memory serves, honestly, even that loop was non-linearly weaker than you'd think (or, if you prefer, the aforementioned dynamic loop is non-linearly stronger than you'd think from the parts, since it's iterative). Yeah, some kids were really into that peer game, but it was pretty easy to check out, and the peer pressure was easily lost in the ambient level of general bullying and child unpleasantness. Yeah, I wore the wrong shoes, but it was something I heard about infrequently, and even if I had been wearing the right shoes it was pretty clear it would just have been something else. It wasn't the dominant playground topic, every day.
At least they are honest. Adults just screw each other over while being polite, e.g. car salesmen, but that's one of the most innocent examples.
Launched in to space for Bezos's Scrooge McDuck gold pool on his moon colony.

But don't worry, nobody needs to get paid for this. The rockets will be built by robots, and the robots will be built by more robots.
This is specifically about the app store.
Antitrust is all about defining markets (which lots of people at HN don't get).

How the court defines the market will decide whether you win or lose in almost all cases.

Here, this is a case about the app store. The market was defined as consumers of apple phones who use the app store.

In that market, apple is clearly a monopolist.

In some larger or smaller market, they may not be.
China fires back at US with tariff hike on goods worth $60 bn
The carbon use of a family making $300/month is minimal and I would hazard to guess any carbon pricing/capping scheme would effect them minimally.

* https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en/news/information/information-d...

* http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/07/how-a-carbon-tax...