skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the problem with superdeterminism is the lack of free will, but with the way it doesn't really give you anything mentally to work with. It posits some early state from which everything could be deterministically extrapolated... except that state is both very complicated and completely hidden. It takes all of the probabilities and shoves them in a black box and says, "The answers exist, and they're in there. But you can't actually look in the box for the answers. You have to go do the experiment and wait for the speed of light to propagate the answer to you."

Like all interpretations, it's mathematically equivalent to any other. It's just a question of what helps you think about the problem, and I don't think many people find it very edifying. You can replace the box with a random number generator, which is at least small enough to fit in your pocket. The superdeterminism box appears to have been crammed full of untold centillions of answers... none of which are accessible beforehand.

If there were reason to think that the superdeterminism box were somehow smaller -- if it all really came down to just one random bit, say, that had been magnified by chaotic interactions to appear like more -- that would attract some attention. And I suppose it would be conceptually testable, by running Laplace's demon in reverse, except that that's not possible either from inside the universe.

So it doesn't really come as a surprise that superdeterminism falls behind MWI or Copenhagen or even pilot wave, because each of those hands you something that you can use to mentally organize the world. Superdeterminism just seems to hand you a catchprase, "As it was foretold in the Long Ago -- but which I just found out about".
Not scalable. This is like saying medical bills are under control because of GoFundMe. Some people can support themselves with patreon but the number is limited and it requires tons of work for zero pay while you build a follower base large enough.

"Work for free for two years and maybe you will have a semi sustainable income" sucks.

Crowdfunding also encourages extreme opinions and bubbles over neutral reporting.
So any cell growth should be assumed to be cancerous?
It's not an intentional one though, it's just what the tools happen to run on. Sony aren't going to come after you if you run their SDK in a VM or something.

Apple intentionally restrict developers to only use Apple hardware and software to keep the ecosystem contained.
> It’s gratingly irritating.

Right. But just because something is irritating does that mean it should be illegal? This seems like something that we don't need to waste taxpayer money on IMO. I feel like there's bigger fish to fry so to speak.
Passing Data Between Fragments on Android Using ViewModel
Couldn't you say the same thing about any security hole? If Equifax didn't want people reading their databases then they shouldn't have allowed anyone with an internet connection to remotely execute code on their systems via https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/issues/8064
For those who'd like to know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
The spy/malware problem on the App Store is tiny in comparison to what you see on almost any other platform. Even if something nasty slips through review, it's access to the iOS device is very limited and gated through permission pop-ups.
I think "guests on a robot-colonized Mars" is the more likely scenario.

Humans are poorly adapted to space travel, and it takes a great deal of effort to keep humans alive in space.

It's a shame about what's happening to our habitat, when you think about it that way.
One of the last remaining music streaming holdouts has relented
Truly excellent post! I discovered just how inaccessible the NYC transit system is for folks using wheelchairs or other personal assists when I had surgery. It is appalling how many elevators are broken all the time, thus making fast transit nigh impossible. That experience made me much more aware of accessibility issues people face. More needs to be done.
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Irritation is not a valid reason for the government to step in and assert their power.
There's not enough gold to go around. Gold isn't a very stable base for economies, as we can see throughout the hundreds of years of gold standards
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I am using GSuite and yes, no complaints.

> How do you feel about that, in your @personal-domain sense?

That's a valid point. After thinking about it for a little while I guess that's not a problem for me.

The only downside is that any e-mail using my domain will be obviously mine (provided they know who owns the domain). If I wanted to "hide" I would have to use another e-mail, which was going to be the case anyway.
skim: informal, steal or embezzle

This isn't skimming. This is a business agreement. The developer should understand the business agreements they enter into.
> Why do you think the slave-free north was much richer than the south, before the civil war?

Because the North had a diversified, industrialized economy, while the South specialized in cotton production.

But the North never could have diversified in this way if it weren't for the South. First because slave-grown cotton was a major source of capital for the overall US economy - it provided over half of all US export earnings. Second, because the demand for textile factories, meat processing plants, insurance, shippers etc. in the over-specialized South is precisely what created a market for the North to diversify into.

This is on top of the fact that the North itself had slaves for a long time, from initial settlement to abolition many decades later.
> American TV culture is just different parts of the life of a TV writer expressed over and over again

This is very true. That’s why so many TV shows are about inexplicably rich, sex-obsessed young people.
It seems like a lot of the bill could run up against first amendment challenges. The only parts that seem "safe" are checkbox parts that deal with contracts; agreeing and disagreeing to terms. I am not a lawyer.
In a general case, yes. This happened recently with gravitational waves. The construction of multiple gravitational wave detectors across the planet allowed us to test a previously untestable hypothesis about the number of dimensions that gravity can act in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HYw6vPR9qU
The Engineering Manager-Product Manager Marriage
Why would eliminate the ability to develop apps for the iOS? You could be able to download a development environment "app" from the Mac App Store just like now. You'd be a bit more confined inside the environment itself, but there is nothing that would prevent developing applications with Apple's own tools while disallowing installing anything outside of MAS.
Coincidentally, started listening to this podcast episode on NPR Hidden Brain - The Empathy Gym [0].

Reading this blog post and listening to that podcast is making me think on how I can focus on building empathy in my children. I guess leading by example is the right way to go....

[0] - https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744195502/you-2-0-the-empathy...
Private voice recognition running locally in browser
Yep I only use FF. The DOM is the same either way, though.
As a purely backend engineer with a passionate hatred for NPM, I love writing ES6 and native javascript. All of the newer features (tbh, I don't know which are new but I guess 'const', 'arrow functions', 'default parameters', 'string interpolations', 'filter/map' are definitely a few of them and made javascript more like the back end language that I work with). I wrote at least a thousand line of native javascript for the monkey scripts and my personal websites and I consider the experience a good one. I applaud the advancement of the javascript language itself and I consider the package management the source of all evil for javascript.
Yeah, I guess [ contact at mydomain dot com ] is pretty great and straightforward. I'll just be more careful whenever using other aliases to register in websites with the potential to reach me by the used e-mail.
The people down-voting and arguing with you are missing the point entirely.[0]

Yes, console makers have monopoly stores on their platforms. Even if you include physical copies, because of the licensing platforms, it's still the same basic idea. (They're also criticized by some for these reasons.)

The difference is that those platforms are not using those quasi-monopolies as leverage to force developers to use their tools. Could they? Yes. But you can't use the capability someone has to do something to defend Apple actually doing the thing.

[0] - The down-voters seem only to disagree with you. That's not what a down-vote is for, and voting this way actively harms the discussion.
IITians.. paid for by the Indian tax payer. But of no use to India, but US.
> I think people should have the freedom to consume content how they want

Absolutely! That doesn't mean corporations should have a right to decide for people how they should consume their content.
Microsoft was raked over the coals because they actually possessed a pure monopoly.

In 2002 Internet Explorer had a 96.6% browser marketshare. [1]

In 1999 Microsoft Windows made up around 95% of desktop operating systems in use. [2]

In terms of antitrust law, IANAL but, I think you'd have a harder time convincing a court that the App Store is a monopoly of any sort. I don't think you can just break down markets into sections like that and claim they have a monopoly on that section.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#On...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/1999/01/19/technology/microsoft/
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How replicated has the study been? Even a fully credible researcher should not be trusted when their research has not been replicated due to just how prevalent replication issues are in psychology.
Careful what you wish for with the low-tech solution. One of the most effective vectors for phone number port-out scams is just showing up to a local cell phone shop and presenting a fake id. Often this is completely free for the attacker since they can just opt to have a new phone added to the account on credit too.
Much cheaper to just hire poor people to click boxes.
Gestation can be solved with the use of spin gravity creating earth normal.
User tracking and search engine pollution via paywalled results.
I agree that it's basically marketing, but what is the societal harm? That it makes Apple look bad?

Remember, it's not like others would stop looking for these exploits if Google did.
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The archaeologists working on the dig thought it was a bit of a mystery and a special find. Not so much the fact that there was an unusual artifact, but where the unusual artifact may have come from.

The glass historian they contacted also thought it was a bit of a mystery and a special find.

What are your qualifications to say that they were wrong?
Hiring people that don't know what they're doing isn't a reasonable excuse, such as Susan Mauldin, the ex-CSO of Equifax with a bachelor in music and no technical or security related education/training
Mediapart with subscriber numbers exceeding 150,000 and net profits in 2018 at almost 2 million euros

See https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edwy-plenel/blog/140319/eleven-ye...
I'd argue that you're wrong, because you are drawing upon your personal experiences instead of scientific inquiry.

Here is a study showing the same behavior in Kenya, Malawi, Nepal and the Dominican Republic. I didn't fully read it, but there is argument that such things exist, even if they aren't as prevalent.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ijop.12423
You can write a game and all at once target Xbox, Playstation, Switch, PC, MacOS, and Linux. You can do physical releases. You can upload your game anywhere, even provide it for distribution on your own website. Everyone has choice in the equation.

App stores are vampiric parasites and need to be dismantled. Either that, or these companies need their phone monopolies taken away.
They pay a team to embarrass competitors. The technical aspect is a small part of what is happening here.
Several of the Chinese manufactures have been adding a DC dimming mode to their recent OLED phones, i.e. Oneplus 7 and Xiaomi Black Shark 2.
The main reason I got tired of my old e-mail is because of a repeating character that may or may not led people to a different e-mail than mine, making me lose an opportunity. I'll never know.
Niall Ferguson is a historian, what makes you think otherwise?
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That's not what zero sum game means... you probably meant false dichotomy.
Of course they don't do that. However, that is certainly not the reason why the relations are so bad. The US government has absolutely no problem in having very good relations with government/regimes that do those things and worse (Saudi Arabia?).
The thing is that whenever a country decides to do something that the USA don't like, they begin hostilities in different levels until they a) get what they want (almost never happens) or b) completely destabilize the country.
I never knew anyone with an imaginary friend growing up either, USSR, ex-USSR, and U.S.
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I'm not torn at all. I despise it and it's awful. But I don't want to legislate it either.
"The average British Columbian planter plants 1 600 trees per day,[5] but it is not uncommon for experienced planters to plant up to 4,000 trees per day"

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_planting
I was low key kind of excited there was a female hacker making the headlines but looks like that isn't really the case.
Types of Managers: The Mentor Manager
David Graeber also did an excellent BBC Radio Series on the same subject - Promises, Promises: A History of Debt: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054zdp6/episodes/player - (registration required / geo limited)
All that does is further penalize the victims of botnets by driving up their electricity bills. It won't hurt the spammers who run the botnets.
I think that at least two of your four points are primarily concerned with gifted and talented students (autodidacts, ambitious kids).

I would like to point out that calling the US public school system broken because it doesn't sufficiently serve exceptional students seems to ignore the plight of many kids who face problems including but not limited to: bullying, learning disabilities, domestic instability, or food insecurity.

Just my 2 cents. Sorry for not really answering your question.
I'm from Spain, and I relate 100% to all you say (including the falling sleep quick!).
Why would anyone trust PayPal? They still owe me $900 from 2005 when I was the victim of a reverse scam. (Buyer claimed i scammed and never sent it; they refused to investigate or accept my tracking info as proof)
When McCandless began his journey he didn't know the bus was there. He just picked a random direction and started walking. If you're intentionally walking towards the bus, you're following his literal footsteps but you're not replicating the same conditions. If you wanted to really follow in his footsteps you should pick an equally random direction and start walking. Odds are you won't find a bus and no one will ever find your body.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KXhfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=my8M...
Which is what I was thinking as well. Wikipedia has a brief summary, and it has been submitted to HN on multiple occasions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Nearly 1 million, students try to crack IIT exam.

No.of seats available are 12-13k. That's nearly 1.3%.
> It’s why Facebook wins, and it’s why closed systems continue to crush open ones.

There's a bit too much going on in your response, so...I greatly disagree on many levels and I feel this statement is a good lead as to why.
The unit I'm affiliated with was tasked by the university to run replications and ultimately assist with the retractions. This was all done by my colleagues but I heard about it quite often. Past that I am going to refrain on commenting more as I'm unqualified to do so.

Two published replication studies (used for retractions) can be found here:

https://cisermgmt.cornell.edu/go/PHPs/catalogSingleStudy.php...

https://cisermgmt.cornell.edu/go/PHPs/catalogSingleStudy.php...
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I believe Apple users choose the Apple ecosystem specifically because they value the protection the App Store provides. I can't even imagine the nightmare if every app was allowed to redirect me to their website, register there and enter payment information before I can start using their app. This system would be abused as hell. The in-app purchases are transparent (I can review all my transaction in one single place) and I can approve my child's purchases remotely.

Also I am sure if the roles were switched, Spotify would no way in hell allow Apple Music to be priced the same way on their App Store for their ecosystem users. It's hypocrisy.

I agree 30% might be too much, but it's their App Store, their users, their infrastructure, their public trust at stake, their rules.
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> Your views don't change even after learning that most of your purchases that are to support developers are being skimmed by 30% ?

Why would that matter in the slightest? If I'm a developer and I figure I need to make $4 off every sale, I just price my app at $6. It will make apps cost more to the end-user, of course; the end-user can then decide whether they want to pay in cash to Apple (via app purchases) to develop iOS, or pay in lack of privacy to Google to develop Android.

What makes me angry about this sort of post is that _right now I have a choice_ -- if I want to pay with money instead of privacy, I choose Apple; if I want to pay with privacy instead of money, I choose Android. Articles like this are clearly meant to _take away my choice_, leaving "pay by privacy" the only option available to me.
As I explained, having solved all the other problems without people having to do anything that wasn't mandated by law makes them think that they shouldn't have to do anything that isn't mandated by law. And the more times we do it that way, they more they'll think that.

We're probably already past the event horizon on that issue. At this point, there's probably no way to make it happen that doesn't involved laws.
Mankind is basically too poor and too stupid at the moment. Building a self-sustaining colony on Mars will require not only tremendous amount of resources, both material and intellectual, but also a transfer of knowledge - which will be impeded by the current legal framework, i.e. copyright laws, for example.

But I do agree with Musk: we must colonize Mars in order to survive the next extinction event.
It's almost as if there is a very large hacking scene for game consoles because people want to run whatever they can on the hardware they bought. Let's also not forget the whole Other OS fiasco with the PS3.

I'm sure if the next Xbox had the ability to run Windows 10 it would sell like crazy.
> NEVER accept management from someone who cannot do your job.

Advice to college students and recent grads:

Q: Help, I just discovered I hate programming and aren't any good at it. What do I do?

A: Go in to project management.

So programmers are run by people who are self-selected for mediocre skills or even outright hostility toward programming.
I was born in the early 80s and still have no idea what that westinghouse W radio thing is all about.
Is anyone familiar enough with Medium to know why someone would publish their blog on the platform, and lock users behind a paywall in order to read their blogposts?

Do they get a cut? I'm not even sure of price, but just see a screen that lets me know I've hit the end of my "Member Preview".
> Because the hard part isn’t planting trees it’s making sure they survive the first five years.

Which is interesting because the article already mentions a lack of water resources:

>> as Ethiopians heeded Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ambitious plan to roll back years of drought and scanty rains that the United Nations says has left some 3.8 million people in immediate need for assistance.

Won't these new trees demand a lot of water?
Despite working with API's all day every day, after your first paragraph I had no idea wtf an API is.
Keeping up with day-to-day or even week-to-week news is very, very nearly worthless to almost everyone. It's just entertainment, barely—if at all—more laudable or improving than watching soap operas or reading airport novels.
I doubt this upgrade is as urgent as a laptop though; trucks last longer and don’t have to deal with ever hungrier software.
Sure, but JavaScript isn't compiled but typically interpreted (or JITed).
I really can't imagine ever thinking to myself, "You know what I really wanna do? Eat some shrooms around <person who is really selfish>."
My household still gets a physical paper (the Seattle Times), and a digital version of the same. We subscribe to the NYT and The Economist. That's about our limit for news subscriptions.

I'm not going to fork over $10/month to each of the other potential news sites for every article they publish. I have no idea why the Podunk Press and the Suburban Picayune Times even consider that as an option for out-of-area readers.

It'd be interesting to have a federated subscription model -- I'd pay an additional $X/month for all of the rest of the newspapers, and they could share that. They'll get nothing from me otherwise. Probably there is a business here (the tech to actually do it seems pretty straightforward, at first glance).
> What does it mean for our society if a single company has control over what that computer can display?

this is literally every major OS right now.... Mac, iOS, Android, Chromium, Windows....

> I think it's analogous to free speech.

what? no it isn't. these are proprietary, private sector companies who fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders, not government entities.
Spotify worked a compulsory license provision of copyright law that applies specifically and only to music streaming. (Originally intended for radio.)

A middle man controlling the subscriber-ship would not necessarily be better for papers. The middle man entity would have enormous bargaining leverage, like Apple does with the App Store.
I am deliberately using incognito by default (eg now), and if websites don't want to give me their content without tracking me then they should properly paywall their content and ask me to log in - then we both understand what's going on.

Frankly, considering this an intrusion attempt reveals a crazy, completely warped mindset: "We will track you, we want to know exactly who you are and what you read and how long, and if you attempt to evade this surveillance, you are an intruder!"

I use unique emails when signing up for websites - is that intrusion, too?
The way I see it, there are two goals to human space travels.

The first, very distant one, is to seed ourselves among the stars to avoid being erased from existence by anything that would threaten our existence on earth, from man made cataclysm to natural event.

The second, with much more immediate result on a human scale, is that every time we face such a challenge it's only an opportunity for us to develop a new technology. Eg sure lower gravity will be an issue, until we figure out how to regulate gravity on a ship / base. That might seem far fetched but just looking at the tech invented to put human on the moon how many of those were far fetched beforehand ? Give people a challenge for tomorrow and watch them work at solving it.
When Apple is alerted to the problem they remove the app from all devices so I don't have the visit my parents and audit their devices or clean it up for them.
You can disable Netflix auto-play following these steps:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102

I disabled Netflix autoplay for the reasons mentioned in this article.