skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe background plays a role here.

My perspective is that I used to think like you growing up as a Creationist, and I can't see a major difference between the arguments OP is making and the arguments that were made to me by members of my church. I used to be highly dismissive of group consensus, I used to say that if you couldn't explain your point in a way that convinced me in specific, that I didn't care how many people agreed with you.

I now think that consensus is an important metric that should be at least considered, particularly in areas where I am not an expert.

Of course, we've seen areas where the broader scientific community was wrong. Before race science became a fringe argument used by fringe segregationists, it was a generally accepted conclusion. But again, underconfidence is just as dangerous as overconfidence. You can't pick one, you have to reject both.

> you reached your conclusions based on the output of the academic system (presumably).

At the end of the day I have to base my conclusions on something, and I think basing them on scientific output is a better place to start than basing them on ideology. Even from the much more subjective metric of "do I trust the communities who argue for this", climate-science doubters and gender-science doubters don't come out looking well.

During the early rise of neural networks, where consensus was that this was extremely promising for AGI, I could find neutral, intelligent people that I respected who disagreed with that conclusion. That made me feel much more confident rejecting the general consensus myself. On the subject of gender-science, I can't find the same number of quality defectors. To me, the people saying that race/gender are heavily tied to IQ look a lot like Creationists, and I ain't getting pulled into that trap again.
Do you have studies that use better taxonomies of "race"? Or do you mean any statement about race is so confounded by social factors it becomes nonsensical.

Also, The original claim was:

> Every result ever has pointed that all races and genders are..

If you muddy the water wrt race, it invalidates the above claim also.
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I kinda have a mental map of brazilian people here. Everytime I see some nick which resembles anything in portuguese, I check if the person is brazilian. From time to time, I'm here scrolling and then... Oh, the soneca guy again.
Same with the atum one, and some others.
Krita in 2019 and 2020
I wouldn't classify that as "makes", though. The basic structure (AxP) remains roughly the same, only the energy transport (phospate group) is ejected or reassembled.

It's a bit like arguing that unloading containers from a cargo ship, and reloading it with new cargo, is the same as building a new ship.
> making your product depend too heavily on a external product you have no control on.

Not only with software, with life. Everyone should consider this when evaluating anything in their life.
> In the 19th century, the idea of “leisure” versus “work” emerged.

huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otium

Frow wikipedia:

The favorable sense of otium in Ciceronian Latin reflects the Greek term σχολή (skholē, "leisure", a meaning retained in Modern Greek as σχόλη, schólē); "leisure" having a complex history in Greek philosophy before being used in Latin (through Latin the word became the root of many education-related English terms, such as school, scholar and scholastic).
OECD tracks pharmaceutical spend directly. It’s about $1,200 per capita in the US, versus about half that in say Spain or France. https://data.oecd.org/chart/5OrU. Richer countries like Australia, Canada, and Switzerland spend $850+.
Isn’t that mackintosh spelled with a k?
Reddit.com got started as the same kind of service, even though today it has clearly outgrown that use case altogether and become something like a new Compuserve BBS of sorts.
I hadn’t thought about it consciously before, but when I hear “Macintosh” a beige box from the 80’s or 90’s comes to mind, and with “Mac” I’m thinking post-millennial aluminum and glass. So, it’s sort of a temporal indicator for the product line.
How could I tell if there's consciousness in that simulated universe, when I can't tell whether other beings in this original universe are conscious?
Right. They offer a platform for the business to connect with consumers, operating a two-sided market.

Sorry, I didn't intend for this to be a political statement, I had a conversation with a right-libertarian friend on the ethics of taxation (I see a need for it) that is still buzzing around in my mind.

By taxation I don't mean wealth redistribution from the wealthy to the state (and certainly not the public, as most of us in the non-wealthy segments pay and don't observe benefit outside of defense and, when not tolled, roads), but rather charge for platform access to citizen rights.

The discussion reminded me of a quote from the US President Obama a few years ago: "If you've got a business—you didn't build that"[0]. His point was that we all build these amazing marvels of technology and modernity on platforms other people provide, be it the state, other companies, and so forth. And because we build these successes on platforms, the platform needs to be funded -- be that taxes, charging, etc.

The crux of Google's issue is that they change their platforms without much warning, without much similarity, and often without prior version support.

Notes

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
Shouldn't Electron be a "platform" in this case, and provide affordances for that?
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"The exposure score is entirely based on a service’s utilization of security features provided by systemd. It doesn’t consider security features built-in to the program or enforced by access control policies like Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) or AppArmor. Nor does the score in any way evaluate the risk factors of a program or its configuration."

So an SSH config with PermitRootLogin Yes with passwords allowed, with an unpatched vulnerability, but that uses systemd, will be marked as safer than a locked down SSH config that is kept updated but which doesn't use any systemd features.

Is that an accurate statement?
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It usually is a problem, companies need to make a profit most years so that they can use it up in bad years. Also, investors at some point would like to see a profit. There's a lot of "free" VC money at the moment but that's (hopefully) gonna end at some point.
Reminds me of “They’re made out of meat!”
How much does running a service like Hipmunk cost? It might not be a good business for the current owner, but it could be profitable for e.g. company of four people. Wouldn't it be better to give it back to Huffman and run it as a small project?
Republicans gird to fight widely backed climate bill about HFCs
Production-Driven Development is the new cool.
China launches its carbon market
How does that contradict what I think? That's the story of a single individual going rogue and then standing trial for his crimes. He's now in prison.
Apple actually does. Like I said, that icon is in the article, right after the paragraph I quoted. Look at the images the author included.

The author is making the point that this shouldn't take much effort because Apple already uses different icons.
They're both Apple products running Apple code, which you are free to buy if you so wish.
They're often required by those laws not to inform you of the laws...
Dataframes are losing their statistical computing and machine learning roots
Students in my class often don't have a laptop at home either, phones, consoles, tablets, but nothing to do any work on. All the open source software they're learning to use and nowhere to run it at home
I think there are many obvious weaknesses to this line of logic. There is some merit there, but it oversimplifies the subject in the extreme.
Literally everyone outside of tech bubble.

In the university i’m affiliated with and the companies i’ve worked with, only IT people use Telegram. Everyone else still defaults to whatsapp.
The argument here is that if you want to produce an app for iOS you have to provide it through the App Store and thus succumb to the 30% fee. The same applies if you're using Apples payment processing, which you actually have to use if you want to offer any in-app purchases on iOS. In addition Apple is the sole authority on what is and is not allowed on their storefront. If they deem your app is not acceptable, you have no alternative ways to distribute it to users. They can also kick you out if they think it's necessary, again leaving you with no alternatives.

Google does the same thing with Play Store. If you sell an app in Play Store, Google takes 30%. If you use Goolges payment processing, Google takes 30%. They can kick you out, not permit you in the store, etc. The difference is that a developer isn't forced to use the play Store or Googles payment processing.

You can distribute your APK in any way you want to and users can install any APK from any location they want to. You can absolutely sell your Android games on your own website and just provide an APK to a paying user and now you don't have to pay 30% out of every purchase. If you want to provide in-app purchases the user can provide their CC information and you're free to process the payment in any way you want to, again, circumventing Goolges cut.

This is the primary reason you can't get Fortnite from the play store, instead you have to download an install an APK. Epic also uses their own payment processing systems, so they don't need to pay anything to Google for IAPs. They can't do that on their iOS apps, meaning they're losing on some hefty profits simply because no alternative exists.

So it's not that Apple is jacking up the profits, rather you could say that you need to pay a hefty tax to provide your app to iOS users.
Should have used pdflatex with

\usepackage{microtype}

in the preamble. The hyphenation would have been much nicer.
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Define “success”?

What about being an average developer is insufficient for you?
> What is interesting here is that you disregard authority for results you disagree with and quotes authority for results you agree on.

What is interesting here is that you have an obviously pre-conceived argument and simply invent false facts (such as the appeal to authority I did not make anywhere) to fit it when reality doesn't supply them for you.
There is FPS in PUBG. It can be toggled between first and third party on demand. The public has welcomed it in a massive way. This sort of accessible gaming which adapts big titles to smaller form factors will win!
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I think the parent comment is saying that the situation of having a price war between too many players isn't sustainable. And it seems not to have been here, since all but one of those players either died or exited the market as a result, leaving the remaining one with monopoly pricing power.
Kinda miss the point of the article, which focused on monopsony -- sole buyer.

If your want to sell on the east coast (Apple), you need to put your product in wooden boxes no larger than X and documentation must be written in French, and you must have 10 employees that speak French.

If you want to sell to the West coast, you put your product in plastic bags, and everything is in Spanish, and your employees need to speak Spanish.

Yes, you have two competitors, but reach had a unique customer pool, and each had the sole power to let you access them. You must build your product and hope they purchase it (and keep it around), otherwise your business doesn't exist... You can't sell your product to anyone!

You have no negotiation power, if you're not promoted in store you can't leverage your power as a seller (they have all power, as long as they do not violate any actual law)
Because the opponent could already be running multiple processes - killing one would only speed up the others.

The programs that uses the SPL-bomb tactic usually tried to catch all the enemy processes (slowed down to uselessness by the SPL-bomb) in the same place before finishing them off with a DAT.
> So somehow, without any deep knowledge of any of these subjects

On what basis do you make this assumption?
I have one company there. I'm planning a migration to a different arrangement, but depending on what you are trying to do it might be OK.

If you want to be incorporated in the EU and are from an EU country where the government UX sucks, it might be worth it.

If you are a B2B software company that frequently hires contractors in the EU it's better to have the company outside the EU as there's less paperwork involved. Also tax reasons.
Because the person you make a cheque to might not have his banking information on him ? And it often goes with "please only deposit this cheque only after day X so I don't end up in the red".
The last big wow moment in defence tech was stealth and the first US stealth plane flew in 1977. The next country to develop stealth was the Russians in 2010!

Now consider its 43 years later with computing technology power that was beyond the dreams of the engineers working on stealth in 1975-1977 and with US military budgets that have been at times larger than the rest of the world's spending put together.

I'd expect that the current state of the art experimental US military tech would be considered by many to be "out of this world".
Web dev is different from others, but I think that it's not a huge help. Or at least, a comp sci degree isn't going to help too much. Web dev is more about presenting content than about "serious comp sci stuff". A comp sci degree is useful if you need to work a job where you have to remember which sub-type of trie is best for such and such data.

That said, you can learn just fine without a degree. Much of what I learned, especially the stuff that most developers use, was before college. The biggest barrier is that many employers consider college a test of "not being a fruit loop", but if you've got work experience, that should help overcome the barrier.
Yes! Rowans Battle of Britain had both a flight simulator, and a high level strategic overview. It was possible to play the game entirely strategically, changing the outcome of the Battle of Britain through effective resource management (like making Germany win by focusing on airfields instead of city bombing), but for every combat encounter you could also jump into a cockpit and get your hands dirty. Truly a tour de force of atmospheric gaming.
Maybe consider a configurable option for the token to only work as a POST payload, versus a url parameter. When they get passed around as urls in email, etc, they tend to get exposed pretty quickly. Breaks standard REST, but...

Or maybe some shared secret challenge/response to get a time limited ticket?
One of the spin-off sites: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/
Google to Deprecate Google Sheets API v3
"More troubling is his claim that they are "weaponizing" reproducibility against climate change. Doesn't that raise a red flag? If you're worried that reproducibility poses a problem for something, doesn't that mean you might just a little bit probably have beliefs not based on reproducible science, but on faith? And that the irreproducible science has a chance of being wrong?"

If I encounter an organisation with a name that tries to make me sound reputable primarily funded by Marlboro
If I take not of the fact that they make the claim that cigarettes are not unhealthy.
If they support this claim by picking and choosing data and misconstruing and twisting the words of reputable sources and scientists to make them fit their claim. (See their mention of a Claudia Tebaldi statement in the report this mess is about and other fud they've written in the past of course completely disregarding anything else she'd say that conflicts with their views)
If disregarded and bashed for this I then see them rethink strategy and simply start saying there are too many studies showing the negative effects on health are not reproducible (not defining what is too many which can be anything from hundreds to a single one) and drawing a link to "anti cigarette dogma"

Can I then not say they are weaponising reproducibility without being accused of just "being afraid I'm wrong"?
The technical report is pretty interesting. They break down what's going where:

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/mne...
The field is called computer "science" and maybe that creates expectations.

But from experience I know that almost all engineering professions put on their pants one leg at a time.

There is certainly a large difference between theoretical and applied physicists and computer science lacks this discrimination, but engineering is often about cutting corners where nobody takes a closer look.

If a colleague of mine calculates some optics, he puts some numbers in a special software and waits a few hours.

There is a lot of mundane work until there is a problem where you can apply computer science. Programming beside the very basics isn't explicitly taught as part of the curriculum. I think it is just a matter of experience and having understood the fundamentals at least at one point in your life.

And being surprised about the lacking code quality in "professional" environments is certainly be a regular experience.

That aside, nearly any modern game is a fairly complex construct.

I know some self-taught programmers that certainly eclipsed the "hobby" phase.
Testability = Modularity
I don't know. I think people associate FPS with the shooty part and the kill,kill,kill mentality, which, while you do this in Portal, it's not the same. It's more of a puzzler/platformer.
You're being a little hard on the Bible.
Been really happy with AirTable lately. Row limits may be an extreme dealbreaker for many.
This math rests on two constants being true:

1. The generic for Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) costing $9k

2. Gleevec costing $100k retail

Neither of which have been true since Gleevec went generic (sensationalist reporting). Brandname imatinib mesylate costs $9-12k depending on insurance. You can get a rebate card that lowers that to around $200. Generic it's around $100-150 for a month's supply.

I really dislike pharmaceutical practices, but there are systems already in place that will allow actual "consumers" (patients, not hospitals and other orgs) to pay a reasonable price for the medication they need.

This really is no different than the Shkreli debacle.
Ask HN: I have $1000 growth fund that expires on Feb. 2nd. What do I buy?
I just hit the requirements for tenure to get access to my growth fund for the year, but it expires on Feb. 2 and the new years fund will come in and this $1k will disappear. I need help figuring out what to get in that time!

Related information: Anything I buy that is a course/subscription (pluralsight, lynda, etc) needs to show completion of a course by that deadline, and all purchases have to directly tie to growth in my day job. So, buying a book on Elixir when the tech stack at work is React/React Native/Golang would get rejected, but books on any of our stack or ios/android programming would be approved.

When the new year starts I plan on getting a subscription to linux academy to go through their aws cert courses, but really am not sure what to buy by Feb 2nd besides a pile of books. Really just feel like I'd get something on go, and all the top rec books (clean code, prag prog, etc).
While this is certainly true, computers and especially mobile ones need to allow consumers to run whatever software they want period. While in the US, it becomes a small inconvenience for us that companies like Netflix and Spotify are having their business sidelined by apple, Apples lock on phones becomes a human rights issue in places like
Hong Kong, Russia and Saudi Arabia when Apple complies with local regulation. While consumers with money have the choice to leave iPhone and go with Android, we as a society need to push back on the idea that you as a consumer don’t have the final say of what software can and cannot be run on a device you own.

Plus long term, the technology industry would be healthier to push back against Big Tech keeping an iron grip on these platforms. In the last year that Apple has turned every default app on its phone into a $10 a month optional premium service. This marginal increase in service revenue will starve the news industry, compete unfairly against Netflix and HBO, eviscerate the remaining paid mobile game industry, and scare any fintech start up / vc playing anywhere near apples potential roadmap. And Apple isn’t even doing that good of a job at these new services - they just have the luxury of making the iPhone which is so good that it makes up for them doing everything else mediocrely
I suspect that they would not be if there would be an equal opportunity. Not giving people a chance just because of ideology is despicable. That's my point.
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Well that is one way to minimize the reality of Bitcoin. On the otherhand the Bitcoin market cap is 50%> than Tesla for example. That may not seem like much, until you realize Bitcoin has a bigger market cap than any US car manufacturer.
Sometimes I wish HN had a hard stop on posts that link directly to paywalled content. Feels spammy.
CCPA cannot kick in fast enough. We need consumer protection in the USA too.
Please back extraordinary claims with evidence. From where I live, there is nothing in the law that says the bank must leave you hanging dry in case they detect fraud. If it’s different elsewhere, I sure would like to see concrete proof of it.
I hope you enjoy caves of qud. Easily the best and most original and beautiful game I've played in years.
Mods can be released anywhere, but in practice, usually aren't !
Steam might not provide hosted MP servers for non-Valve games (are you sure it doesn't ?), but we've even seen older games having Internet multiplayer removed to the exclusivity of Steam's own "VPN" : Dawn of War 1, Civilization 4 (for which they also managed to break most mods for no seemingly valid reason)...
> By the way, only about 10% of the HN community is in the Bay Area and that segment is by no means all "technocrat"

The original comment said "a measure of how much the comment matches the general bay are technocrat sentiment", it doesn't say that everyone on HN is from bay area or a technocrat.

From my understanding it means that if people believe "it's what people in Bay Are would think" it gets more traction.

There's a trend towards conformity that is helped by the style of moderation.

Not saying is bad, just saying that there's a consistent pattern.

Which is exactly what happened.
Most people implementing ECC signatures are going to end up only handling a chosen group of named curves whereupon there aren't any curve parameters to check.

For example in Signal IIRC they use Curve25519. So there isn't any code about parsing or checking parameters, it's just here's some code that implements Curve25519.

NSS (the library used in Firefox on every platform) only accepts NIST's P-256 and P-384 named curves. It is parsing an ASN.1 data structure which can have parameters for curves, but if parameters are present instead of a name NSS's code gives up immediately because it's only looking for those specific names. (These aren't actually human readable names, they are OIDs such as 1.2.840.10045.3.1.7 for curve P-256)
“Smart-work” > “Hard work” is BS. If you want to get things done, train yourself to do focussed work over a period of time. In developer lingo, be in the zone as much as possible. There’s no smart-work or any other shortcut.
Also, Battle.net is in a somewhat different category, as, as far as I know, is only used for Activision-BLizzard games ? (No possible monopsony issues when it's the same company !)