skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gating the app store, banning apps and then cloning their functionality could be construed as anti-competitive.

It's the way Apple, Amazon, and Facebook work now. Clone a product, add it to your ecosystem with enhanced proprietary integrations to your other services. Your competitors cant compete because they dont have access to the same api or the same paas. It really has nothing to do with product pricing or selling client side phones.
I can't seem to zoom in far enough on my phone to read the labels. What are those two events where traffic spikes tremendously?
Dropbox is blocked for me. What is that big spike in the middle of the graph? The Twitter thumbnail is illegible. Thanks.
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Studying Cultural Differences Using Emojis and Word2Vec
> or embed it in their applications (whether they ship those applications to customers or run them as a service). They can even run it as a service internally. The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service

Great so I will write a little shim that loads libcockroach and call it TermiteDB and I'm set.
Seems like the SEC only creates new regulation after they see a beefy money grabbing opportunity.
The app store is what killed the mac ecosystem.
Remember when we had small development studios like Monster, Freeverse and Made By Sofa? An active app developer community that would share ideas and code because they wanted to make the best apps, culminating in the Appsterdam movement, where people traveled across europe just to meet up.

All gone. Nobody can make a living of developing 99ct apps, and most iOs and Mac apps nowadays are super buggy and nothing like the polished marvels we had back then.

I miss those days...
Could you provide a source for this? Just curious.
Let's say it was an even more unpleasant animal. Imagine one of these brain-eating parasitic worms.

How much quality of life would you personally be willing to give up on, to save those worms and their environment?
> It's pretty bad when even a significant portion of your user base only uses your product begrudgingly and with resentment.

That describes a _lot_ of companies and organizations (probably the majority of all organizations, I would guess?) most of which I would not consider evil. The DMV, for example. I would agree with calling them 'pretty bad', but pretty bad isn't the same as evil.
I just looked up the Domino joiner. It looks amazing, but good lord, it's $1500 after you add in the different sized cutters.
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Only if you look at thing 'additively.' Zuckerburg also has the authority to put a stop to any development he likes. The people who work for him do not, really.
> It's been years since I've even seen a pro-facebook take on HN, let alone anywhere else.

'let alone' anywhere else? HN is surely skewed toward privacy-conscious types that are inherently not 'pro-Facebook.'
Blockstack

(Link discussing Harvard endowment investing)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...
Yeah well the guy who wrote qemu also did ffmpeg.
But don't obey the speed limits too closely. My first few times on the Autobahn, I'd cruise along at a great speed, then slow down to a reasonable approximation of the speed limit, only to have the cars I had passed over the previous 10 minutes blow by me on the left... wash, rinse, repeat.
Maybe you should use BikeshedDB [0] instead?

[0] https://github.com/tschottdorf/bikesheddb
I feel like most successful generalists approach problems from a perspective of "never stop learning" that is contrary to a false sense of confidence.

In other words, my perspective as a generalist is not that I already know enough about a topic (enough to be dangerous), but rather that I don't know many things but know how to learn quickly.

I think there is some truth that being a generalist requires a degree of confidence and charisma to constantly wade into things out of your depth, but without a healthy dose of fear and respect for the unknown, you're likely to get burned before getting very far.

A Dunning-Kruger generalist just seems like someone who has always gotten lucky with projects and has never had to reckon with running up against their lack of knowledge.
I don't think that the government is generally competent or benevolent, but I am 100% sure that the tech industry is not benevolent, and that bothers me in direct proportion to their competence.
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The opposite is true. Video service enables companies to charge enough to justify broadband deployment. That’s why Google and Verizon offer video over their fiber service even though they don’t really have their own content. Verizon won’t expand FiOS into Baltimore because it can’t get a television franchise from the city without agreeing to onerous build-out requirements. Without video revenues FiOS isn’t really viable.
The first spike is annotated with "Changes in HN logging system".

The second is annotated with "Bot activity: combated with some HN/YC software".
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I'm all for businesses coming up with whatever licensing terms they want. That said, as a user, it'll be a harder sell if I can't easily understand or validate what the license permits and doesn't.

For example, with their new license, could I fork cockroachDB, rebrand it, add considerable improvements of my own, and then offer that as a service? Or what if I'm not offering cockroachDB as a service directly, but the service I'm building and offering as a service can still be argued to be some sort of data-store?
Did you mean https://defundcrypto.org/ ?
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This trick may break ordering and cache aliasing rules on many architectures. If you're dipping into this kind of thing, it needs per-architecture whitelisting.
> In a better functioning world, I'd have hoped this kind of thing would have been driven by sensible legislation

One of the mainstays of capitalism is that competition should generate better, fairer options given sufficient competition and time. Part of the allure of letting the market solve these problems is that they can do so without the need for legislation (which could be compromised, incomplete, or unjustly preferential).

Now whether or not we prefer the capitalist or socialist method of solving this issue is a big question, but I don’t think you can argue that the system isn’t “functioning” as intended right now.
My understanding of physics is that no die toss can be considered "fair" because such a macroscopic system behaves deterministically according to Newton's laws, and isn't even too chaotic to model accurately. No matter the shape or balance of the die, the outcome is determined by the initial conditions and the toss. A skilled gambler can make a fair die land however they want.

The only thing I know is that a well-made die is symmetrical, and so if I have no prior knowledge of its initial orientation then I have to use a uniform prior because nothing else has the requisite symmetry group.

The same could be said for a die that is just sitting on the table without having been observed by me yet, no toss needed.
These questions are completely tangential, and may be a bit too personal, but I can't help but be curious...

1. After you moved out to the country, and discovered you did not want to handle the lifestyle of maintaining all that land (esp. w/ tendonitis + family health issues), did you take a financial loss selling the land? I could see that experience being frustrating.

2. Would you be financially independent regardless of your youtube income and other income (selling plans) from your website?
Hm, wasn't one of the conditions to use BSL (the name of the license) that one of the "Change licenses" must be GPL?

I remember distinctly because while I liked BSL, I never understood why I couldn't use AGPL as fallback (which would be much better suited to my use case).

EDIT: It seems I was wrong:

> To specify as the Change License the GPL Version 2.0 or any later version, or a license that is compatible with GPL Version 2.0 or a later version, where “compatible” means that software provided under the Change License can be included in a program with software provided under GPL Version 2.0 or a later version. Licensor may specify additional Change Licenses without limitation.

https://mariadb.com/bsl11/

So Apache is OK, because such software can be incorporated into GPL app. AGPL is not, because it places additional restrictions.
I think it is safest if you will not factor people having book/laptop/hot coffee in front of their face. For other considerations see sibling posts.

The same issue is for back facing seats on autonomous cars. I don't see it happening.
To be fair, I think Dota has much harder counters for some heroes than LOL
I don't think this is a Godwin situation. The question about personal responsibility is at the forefront of this discussion, which happens to also have been applied at the end of WW2, as a matter of moral continuity. When you then go on to detail how this a facet of western law, you belie the Godwin claim, you brought up for no reason.
What ever happened with Solyndra?
NPM is now more than a million packages
Cockroach Labs took $53M in VC: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cockroach-labs

For the scale of the required exit, they would need a very large support contract, and at that point it would be easier for Google / Amazon to just build their own solution, hire their own people to provide support and development, or just let market forces do their thing.

The fundamental shift now is that a lot of open source software is on shaky ground, having been built by VC money searching a profit. This is the same force plaguing NPM and the JS community. The piper must be paid at any cost, even if it means compromising the open source part of the project
YouTube Bans Kids from Live-Streaming Video Unless Accompanied by an Adult
I can't reproduce this at any window size on Firefox, Chrome or Edge on Windows 10. I can hardly fault a typeface designer for not being an expert web developer who can build a consistent user experience on every conceivable browser configuration.
Could someone say just take a normal open source license, like MIT, and just add a provision saying, if you are Amazon, Google, Microsoft, this license doesn't apply to you and you are not permitted to use the code in any way?

Basically, just blacklist certain companies that compete with you directly.
getting an OS up an running on a phone is easy, its the backend services and building an eco system that will/has sunk a few companies that have attempted it.
Some clearly have been, or have wanted to; hence the downward pressure on the stock price.

Not owning stock isn't the same as wanting different governance though - an investor might like the fundamentals, and think it could go further, but not under its current x.
This was my issue at the time too.. It was a horribly vague situation.

The SEC usually acts but the penalties are usually for 1/100th of the profits.

If Kik loses here they're just going to make them pay $1M 'penalty' and move on.
> hasn't even reviewed TorGuard yet, so that source is not credible at all

We're not comparing service quality so I don't understand what them not having reviewed TorGuard has to do with anything.

FWIW, I think the link posted was clearer and fairly objective.

I 'll also add that the other video you made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHssMNEWMg is more useful because it addresses some questions I had like why NordVPN would think to remove your video through TorGuard and if they had reached out to you directly.

All in all, very strange situation and I am interested to see how this pans out.
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> I really doubt they'd force developers to use Sign in with Apple

If developers allow any third-party authentication (Google, Facebook, etc), they must also allow Sign In with Apple. This is a June 3 update, and it will be a requirement before the end of the year.
A lot of what you say describes a fairly common experience with Windows too. Perhaps not with a Thinkpad maybe but I’ve failed to revive a sleeping windows machine on a few occasions, and switching between output sources can be unpredictable too. Mac is the only platform which consistenly succeeds at these kinds of things because of the vertically integrates hardware. Its the drivers as you say ... I don’t think the actual o/s has much say in it beyond the drivers that are supported.
Uh.. that's a U2, not a B2. The U2 is not a flying wing, and the two are really not even comparable.
> "worth" is a bit of an illusion

The "market cap" of a currency is kind of a weird concept to begin with. It's based on the presumption that you could buy every single unit of the currency at the current market price, and that the currency would still even have meaning afterwards. It's a gross approximation at best for a stock; for a currency, it's absurd, and even more so for one with a market as shallow as a cryptocurrency.
Still cached though:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mmYmdN...
It's because they have real food, whereas most gas station convenience stores only sell junk.

24 hours a day, you can get hot soup, quesadillas, sandwiches, salads, burritos, etc. in a matter of minutes for a reasonable price. There's really nothing else like it.
> make amends for the "abuses of China's past"

They said "not only turn a deaf ear to", you turn it into "make amends for". The absurdity in your reading is there because you put it there.
Do you have data to support this hypothesis? Bear in mind that various forms of takeout food and restaurants have existed for thousands of years in many cultures.
I think it was Buffet who said that the stock market was a giant machine for taking money from the impatient and giving it to the patient.
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Telecom is not blacklisting subscribers phone lines as Facebook et al has been.

Facebook account bans brought what they had been doing with biased algorithms since 2016.

Antitrust protects all freeedoms not just money
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Exactly. There is legislation pending at the federal level to gain better insights.

‘Measuring the Economic Impact of Broadband Act’ was introduced in the senate recently.
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I had the impression cloud providers like AWS would move to using their own core services to emulate other systems and not host the original thing.
My experience has been that Android phones have lower capital costs and higher TCO. I buy an iPhone, keep it a few years, sell it for a few hundred bucks and buy another. I buy an Android phone, Google cuts the price by half six months later, and within two years the resale value of the phone is zero. One of the reasons I stopped buying Android phones was because it was an expensive habit.

But ... if you keep your phones until they literally fall apart, the economics are different. Though over a span of, say, five years, it doesn't really amount to much either way.
I wouldn't be so quick to imagine that. Especially recently, Steam has seen many legitimate, organic negative review bombs. The truth is likely closer to the fact that Valve is known to just not really care about the quality of their storefront
Unfortunately, the FCC's tracking data for broadband availability is notoriously poor.[1]. Think "regulatory capture" and, if you'e seen The Wire, "juking the stats".

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18644726/fcc-broadband-re...
The official Firefox blog post also includes instructions on how existing Firefox users can enable this protection, as Bloomberg's choice of phrasing "new downloads" is inaccurate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20095039

EDIT: The option enabled for new users today is "Block third-party trackers". There is an older option that many previously enabled, "Block all third-party cookies" that, as noted below, will break many Internet sites (such as single-sign on). Keep an eye out for this when checking your existing profiles.
For the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Kimball_(computer_prog...
I would guess that the people on Facebook's board are worth more than their weight in gold.
You'll need to save the image in order to get it in full size. Sorry there's no other way around this.
I would say Zuck is "Accountable" for all of the dark patterns and shady things. That's on him as CEO. The teams that implemented them and the management that signed off all share responsibility.

I'm thinking in terms of a RACI matrix.
Epstein's book is not for you. His "generalist" is 95x magnification instead of 99x.

Look up "Refuse to Choose!" by Barbara Sher. I'm like you and her book(s) taught me that I don't need to feel guilty, self-loath, or suffer insults for being this way.
A very, very long time. There's also the fact that they know very, very well what the general advice from the SEC about selling "tokens" to "investors" will be. (Their words, not mine.)
What if I'm in the market for a solid Mac workstation? The lowest spec option for a Mac Pro is 6000 dollars. That is a lot of money for a computer.

Barring the Mac Pro, what are my options? There's the Mac Mini. Reasonably priced perhaps, but pretty low on specs and upgradability. I also have my concerns over the cooling.

Then there's the iMac. Again, concerns with the upgradability and cooling. At least the pricing is decent for a Mac. That is unless you go for the iMac Pro, which is almost the same level as the entry-level Mac Pro. At least the iMac Pro comes with a monitor stand.
> One interesting constant is that most of the projects that felt a need to change licensing to react to business model issues over the years are dead ;) . Not all of them, mind you. But the failure rate seems really really high.

The failure rate for all projects is pretty high, though.
They use Krypton-fueled Ion thrusters; they're much like Xenon thrusters, but Krypton is cheaper. Being a LEO constellation, they require propulsion to maintain their orbit.

Their destination orbit is 550km, and were launched around 400km IIRC.
I agree though I believe the abuse of privacy rights by the government is the worst kind of the two, capable of inflicting the greatest damage.
This happened to me, and I contacted Square to see if they intended to send receipts that were not requested to email addresses that were not verified by the purchaser. Square support said yes, that's what we want to do.

I pointed out that there could be domestic abuse consequences from sending these emails (which show not just the transaction amount, like a credit card receipt, but the items purchased). They were unfazed by this possibility.
Frequentist statistics is often pretty poorly taught. Ideas like likelihood, modeling, and optimization underly the mechanics of both worlds. There's a big obsession with testing, but the Neyman Pearson testing framework is sound an intuitive.

Bayesian statistics gets a big boost because it's usually taught as a system instead of as a recipe book.
Good point! Looking at the wings of a regular airplane it definitely would be a pretty crazy ride sitting out there while the plane is banking.
There is a difference between unqualified people, and qualified but busy people. While there may be unqualified people reviewing papers, even qualified people who don't put in enough time and effort to review a paper comes to the same result. But the solution for that problem will look different.

There's also a big difference between accepting a paper and judging if it is good. At a top conference like NIPS, lots of good papers will get rejected. That's the nature of being a top conference in a hot field. It's similar to a high school valedictorian not getting into Harvard: it's not a judgement that they are a bad student. But when you're an elite thing, and lots of people want in, you end up looking for reasons to reject rather than accept. You will end up rejecting good papers/students in such a case. NIPS, or NeurIPS now, is a particularly interesting example, as a colleague recently told me that they just got 12,000 submissions this year.

There's also an issue in computer science papers where people may not like your paper based on personal taste. They may not be convinced you're solving a real problem, and if your paper involves a new artifact, the design of it. I refer to these as "your baby is ugly" reviews. They don't think you're wrong, they just don't like it.

I think people's time is a bigger thing than the wrong people. One problem, I think, is that we tend to compete for these once-a-year conferences, causing an enormous time crunch for reviewers. VLDB has a great model where they do rolling acceptance throughout the year, accepting a few papers every month, even though the conference happens once a year (http://vldb.org/2019/?submission-guidelines). I believe this is the best hybrid between the typical CS conference system, and the more common journal system in the rest of science and engineering.
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Just a thought: from purely brand perspective, do you want consumers to associate your name with film/audio production or with ”nerd stuff”.

The real profits come from consumers. Pro-market is moneywise small (on Apple scale).

Maybe one (or main?) purpose of the pro-lineup is to just make consumer products more attractive. Bit like with cars - some people read and dream about highend models and buy the $30-40k model.
The outrage is mostly driven by companies that took millions in VC money. VC-fueled open source would always need to find a way to monetize, and "bait and switch" by changing licenses is a tried and true strategy.
$300 is a number that has been calculated several times as the externalities caused by burning a tonne of carbon. That's over $6 per gallon, so I'm not being hyperbolic.

Considering the hysteria that $10/tonne is causing in Canada, I don't think my riots statement is hyperbolic either.
There are two factors that matters to a relevant market definition in monopoly; product and geographic. We don't know what product definition will eventually be chosen by the Justice Department yet, but Apple will be in surely trouble when it's defined as users with Apple mobile devices since Apple has an absolute power in this hypothetical market.

It's true that Apple doesn't have a dominant position in the phone market, but the same logic may not be applicable to the app store. Do not confuse those two; Not much customers change their expensive phone due to $1 increase of app prices which could be easily mandated by Apple even though there's nothing stop them from changing their phone. So Android apps are not really viable substitutes unless Apple allows another competing OS or app store on iPhone. Because of this reason, even Apple hasn't attempted to defend itself with "Android is a viable option!".
Agreed. At which point I'm free to move to a different provider, but yes, this is always a possibility.