skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Apple's motivations were solely altruistic, whereas mean old Google is just a money grubbing copycat?

I'm being snarky, but it seems a little naive to think either of these companies wasn't eager to capitalize on the lucrative mobile software market. Aren't you also prevented from buying subscriptions or making other in-app purchases within iOS apps (but not through the app store's integrated system)? Seems like that has little to do with malware as it's not just a ban on malicious IAP, but rather any type of IAP that doesn't include the "app store tax" as you put it.

I think both the Google and Apple stores purport to be a generally safe repository of mobile software in order to encourage the sale and distribution of apps, strengthen the appeal of their respective platforms, and generate revenue by providing these markets (for a cut).
Welcome to the club. Don't get your hopes up getting the ban lifted.
Had my startup AdWords account banned because we developed dApps using Solidity and Google didn't like Ethereum at the time.

After countless email replies from "Emily" - the Google support bot, and actual phone hangups from the call center, we gave up.

And there are plenty of other examples out there.
Which most people that would use this already know and so really you can just skip the learning and go straight to using it.
Generating Random Numbers on Ethereum
Sharing and collecting data to share between business entities with no firewall between the two unlike Amazon and Facebook.

Clandestine support of privacy researchers to publish favorable content.
> creating herd immunity, similarly to Sweden.
> ...
> The problem is that it's impossible to have an intelligent discussion over this.

As far as I can tell the Swedish government never had this plan. It was mentioned in an interview and dismissed as unworkable, journalists misunderstood.

On the other hand the UK government appears to have had no plans whatever until jolted into action by the fear that public opinion would turn against them.

What Sweden has done is similar to Norway, where I live, which relies largely on voluntary changes in behaviour and temporary closure of institutions and businesses that require close contact between employees and customers. But Sweden took longer to implement those measures and also Swedish society is different from Norway, anecdotally Swedes seem to me to be more urban people than Norwegians and more gregarious.

Exactly why Sweden has a much higher death rate, 36/100k inhabitants versus 4.3/100k in Norway, is unclear at the moment partly because of different definitions but also because of differing conditions, and the epidemic being at different stages in the two countries.
IRC, SMTP, IMAP are protocols from back when desktop operating systems didn’t even come with TCP/IP. They would use a single connection for unlimited messages. I was using a “modern” chat program, AOL Instant Messenger.

Alright, the missing part of my story was that I was also using a proxy program to share a single connection with my brothers. NAT wasn’t widely available yet, and Winmodems were much easier to find than hardware modems. (And I hadn’t discovered Linux and the free Unixes yet.)

So, every TCP connection that AIM made was 2 connections in the proxy program. We quickly discovered that AIM on more than one computer at a time made the entire Internet unusable.

Every generation of developers decries the next generation for bloat, but Windows 95 had preemptive multitasking that made the computer so much snappier (plus other features), at the cost of multiple times more RAM needed than Windows 3.1. (16 MB was the unofficial minimum, and often painfully small. Microsoft’s official minimum was impractical back then.) Windows XP had protected memory that made it more feasible to run multiple applications, because they were much less likely to crash each other (plus other features, including a TCP/IP stack featuring NAT and a useful connection limit), at another several multiples more RAM needed.

There have always been tradeoffs. Back in the day, programs were small and developers focused more on making sure they did not crash, because they didn’t have lots of RAM and crashing would often require the computer to reboot. That developer focus meant less focus on delivering features to users. (Also, security has often meant bloat.) Now, you barely need to know anything about computer science, and you can deliver applications to users, at the cost of ginormous runtime requirements.
Have you seen the images of food bank lines in the last two months[0]? The problem with quantifying demand is that’s typically based on ability to pay, and we’re currently looking at what, 20% unemployment?

Millions upon millions of Americans are at risk of starvation, and a central goal of an initiative like this is to make food as available as possible so that people don’t starve.

0: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/837141457/thousands-of-cars-l...
I just found it strange that _all_ of the examples were anti-trump, especially when various conservative pro-trump subreddits were guilty of the exact same thing.

And frankly, I'm A-OK with communities having heavy-handed moderation no matter what side of the aisle you're on. That's great! At least when you join those communities, you know what you're signing up for.

But the trouble comes when you have lightly-moderated spaces that are targeted by authoritarian extremists with the explicit goal of trying to shift people's opinions. That's subterfuge, and lightly-moderated spaces are defenseless against it, since at point you either introduce moderation or throw up your hands and let the extremists win.
Home Room in Oakland is delivering TP and dry pasta with delivery orders right now.

I predict we'll see a lot more of that kind of thing with reduced occupancy at restaurants. Come in for a meal, leave with a week's groceries.
Can you think of any popular services with a moderation team which publishes such a log? I definitely can't.
For more queries, you can add modifiers to a Google Search to get the results you want

Seeing folks mention the NOT operator (-). It's quite powerful! For example, you can do:

intext:"Powered by intercom" -site:intercom.com
will find all the sites that use the Intercom widget

or
~blog bread baking -inurl:checkout -intext:checkout
will find bread blogs (or similar) without commercial intent

I put together a list of the two dozen or so most useful templates of this, for folks who are interested:
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-int...
shame on Google
I’m not sure that’s true. The people who have agency to move don’t need to; Highly-skilled knowledge workers are already being showered in benefits and compensation in the USA. This is definitely true in tech, and increasingly true in conventionally “high-status” professions (ie finance, consulting, strategy, etc).

A lot of people talk about the 1%, but there’s a separate, massive quality of life divide (especially at work) between the top 10% and bottom 90% of workers. Working conditions have never been better for the top 10%, and are getting worse for the rest.

So while there are definitely other immediate negative consequences to the US not having these benefits unilaterally, the fact that they already exist for the richest/most-educated makes me skeptical we’ll see an exodus of that demographic.
Every individual is a "side," so the equal-time concept in broadcasting doesn't scale.

It never really did, and this would only be more apparent if we tried to re-institute such a doctrine today.
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never said anything to the contrary, actually agree with everything here.
> Would an independent YouTube be less susceptible to these requests?

You would almost certainly need something like the Paramount Consent Decrees to structure the marketplace correctly and to foster the kind of competition that would prevent a single player from being in such a vulnerable position.
Because one of them can be slower than the other? Let's assume random.org gives true quantum randomness. Let's assume it's acceptable for my program to make an api call to random.org to get some random numbers.

That doesn't mean I want to go to internet every time I need a random number. I'd much rather get something like 256 random bits from random.org and create the rest with Mersenne Twister which has an insanely large period.
SHAME on Google
Thats the main false assumption about venture. Given the stage of venture investing, there is way less true evaluation and understanding of risk going on than they care to admit.
For example,there are doubtless exacerbating factors in the case of NYC (density, transit, lots of travelers). However, whatever you may like or not like about the specific policy responses at all levels of government with respect to NYC, I think it's hard to make the case that it was a uniquely bad response compared to not only everywhere else in the US but everywhere else in the world.
Apple has the deepest pockets in the list you gave there, and they have skin in the chip manufacturing business. Shit's about to get interesting.
Accelerating your Zendesk customer support response times and meeting SLAs
No, there isn't, which is why the ML system can be fooled (especially by phrases that only have meaning for a subset of users; most comments on YT aren't in Chinese, so any isolated Chinese phrase sticks out like a sore thumb in terms of Bayesian priors and first-impression effects on the ML algorithm will be strong. The system will interpret "Most users never see this phrase but it gets flagged often when users do see it" as "This is objectionable content and should be downed automatically").
Are you saying transportation and restaurants are not essential?
Part of the state's business model is bragging about businesses "fleeing" high-tax, high-regulation states like CA.

Also, there was a thread a few days back about OSHA requirements; the Federal government sets minimum standards but each state's OSHA is free to set higher standard on top of that.

There is a line of thinking (at least, among Tesla apologists) that CalOSHA is "the reason" that Tesla has the "most reported safety incidents" of auto mfgrs.
And maybe their takeaway is the same as ours: "This is a big priority and I need to get it done ASAP". Isn't that exactly what Musk is trying to get across?
The 3600 stock cooler is GARBAGE. Any load at all and it would eventually climb up to 95 degrees. I tried re-seating it, using different thermal compound, just blowing more air at my computer, but nothing fixes the fact that there's so little material in the cooler, and it's just not that functional. It can handle small but bursty loads, but any constant one easily overcomes it's pitiful performance.

That said, $30 aftermarket cooler will keep you at 50 degrees even during max load. Great chip for the money and I'm super happy with it
> Less hours means less dedication in the eyes of management.

In the eyes of bad management, yes. In the eyes of good management, quite the opposite. If you are spending more time working then what's expected to get your job done, my concern is what happens when you 1) leave or 2) burn out. I'd rather have you spend your time doing what your job and then relaxing and not burning out then burning out or leaving. Reliability is key here.

This is also a problem if they leave, because it sets a false perception of what can be done in a normal work week.

Not to mention the actual quality of the work long term. Basically, everything I've ever seen of excessive hours per week results in long term losses.
Well, perhaps the commonality in this case is that both the Irish and the Native American tribes involved were oppressed by Anglo cultures.
The model isn't predictive though - it's a simulator. If we'd waited until we had enough data to make predictions with it (which I doubt you could given the sheer number of parameters) it'd be too late to use any of the interventions.

How would you ethically collect training data for the interventions?
I am terrible with names, but John Carmack is one of the few that I never forget.
I'm curious, what countries are you referring to?
I challenge you to find an on-line community whose average is better than HN's worst.

I really do. I might start visiting it; we lack civilized places on the Internet.
Actually forgot about this! That said I do remember trying it some years ago; Reddit RSS just ended up providing too little signal for too much noise. I came to the same conclusion with Twitter RSS and certain types of Tumblogs.
Ask HN: Coping with time anxiety while learning something new?
How do you cope with the feeling of time anxiety when you’re learning something new?

I’m a college student who recently finished the semester and I’m trying to use my free time (internship was cancelled) to skill-up on a programming language I like (Python).

I’m working on a fun personal project in the language and every time I have to do something new, I encounter more and more in-depth information about the language and the ecosystem surrounding it. Small example: yesterday, I was looking at some Python repos on GitHub and noticed that all of the README files I saw were .rst files instead of Markdown, so I started learning about reStructuredText.

But when I first realized this was a markup language I was not yet familiar with, I felt this mix of dread and anxiety at having to learn something else in order to keep progressing with the project. Then, I realized I’d had a similar feeling when I was trying to implement a particular feature in my project and read through a pretty long piece of documentation to figure out how I could use the library in question to do so.

I generally enjoy learning new things about software, and want to be a programmer for at least part of my career, but I’m wondering if others have these kinds of feelings? I want to have a deep understanding of the things I do, but I also feel this weird pressure to just grok something “good enough” so I can move on to the next thing and keep building/learning new stuff.
Salt and Pepper – Running native code within the browser (2013)
This debate is sort of in the weeds. The models are not that important. We have plenty of real world evidence to be very concerned about Covid19. The following facts are not contradictory:
1. The code is bad, maybe even unreliable
2. Scientific software should adhere to best practices for software development
3. At a bare minimum, complex simulation software should be able to generate correct answers for well-understood toy models
4. Covid19 is a dangerous disease that can spread exponentially and kill a lot of people if mitigation measures are not taken (look at Wuhan, Lombardy, NYC)
Even before Covid-19, our health care system doesn't really provide much for these folks.
Additionally, seeing all the failures of getting money to small businesses during this crisis and all the deaths in nursing homes, I find it hard to believe we'd effectively care for these people as they are isolated at home.
Google can do whatever they like. They're a company, not the government. And as such, they will always bend to the mercurial whims of both rich investors and the government (who is also owned by the rich).

The only way to fix that is a nearly-uncensored#, non-profit& communications and streaming platform that is globally-distributed and doesn't have a SPoF. Trying to get a content creators' union is all-well-and-good, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of reliance on corporate greed that will never assure access to speech.

# There are only a few topics that shouldn't be enabled like child porn and actually planning mass murder.

& Nonprofit itself while it supports monetization for creators with only minimal fees to cover costs.
The amount of data that Google has on you is immeasurable. The fact that there is no firewall between Google business entities in terms of data sharing is absolutely insane.

They have normalized the concept of sharing your data to the internet and monetizing it. At least Facebook and Amazon are accountable for their actions.
Questions About the Current Pandemic from the Point of View of Ivan Illich
Good luck, I am super sorry to hear this.
Shh. You're not allowed to think that.

In all seriousness, I've been really disappointed with people who I respect who have consistently belittled anyone who questions the prudence of the lockdown. "Covidiot" is thrown around indiscriminately.

The other thing that has surprised me is how many people use absolute numbers rather than per-capita numbers in order to prove their points. I even found Neil deGrasse Tyson doing this on Twitter.
Same here, already back in 2006 it was clear to me that one could get a long way in Java and .NET, only turning to C++ for critical code paths.

And since then, while not perfect, the use cases where it is required deminishes with each platform release.

Plus any of the languages are better options than plugging a scripting language.

Good job.
Author here, happy for any feedback or questions.

You can find the previous article at [1], which goes over the basics and the original finding on Skylake. This new article focuses on Ice Lake but probably mostly makes sense after reading the original. HN discussion of the first part is at [2].

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[1] https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/13/intel-zero-opt...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169605
Really so the Chinese people have youtube?
There's heavy speculation of Apple ditching Intel for the ARM platform, it'd be interesting to see if it could actually happen. It has to be an opportunistic move
Two great points. Thanks.
Oh, certainly the processes occurring on the chip itself could bring about an entirely separate consciousness while at the same time simulating a human one on a different level.
Cool and exciting. Carmack has a level of brilliance that I find astounding.

Some of his youtube video's of him talking about graphic rendering and compression are really cool.
The problem with this strategy is that most restaurants cannot survive on reduced capacity or economic participation by the public. A huge percentage of people aren’t going to patronize restaurants until a vaccine is found, and if things open back up and people don’t show, we’re going to have a very different economic problem on our hands.
That sounds suspiciously like what used to be said of encryption.
The fact that a person in a lower economic class has a livable wage will solve many problems. Home ownership, affording a family and health care will east most economic friction. As far as social polarizarion, I think that's an entirely different topic,two people of high income can be socially and politically polarized for non-economical reasons.
I personally strongly disagree (the world is bad but it's far better now than it ever had been) but I understand your point of view and I'm okay with it. Different people have different world views and different lenses they see the world through, so everyone has different tolerances. Personally I can't watch hours of bad things back to back without feeling bad, and if I see heartwrenching stories of war-torn Afghani families I'm going to be an emotional wreck for the rest of the day. It legitimately has a negative impact on my day-to-day life. I also have an addictive personality so one thing leads to another.

Some people can drink socially. Some people can function in their daily life as alcoholics. Some people find out they can't be around alcohol at all without relapsing to destructive alcoholism. It's the same for any addictive substance, and "news" definitely is addictive.
If OpenBSD knows what's good for them they will encourage him to read and contribute as much as possible!

What I'd give for John Carmack to clean up my code...
Researchers Invent Technology to Remedy 3D Printing's 'Weak Spot'
> they have to act across borders.

They don’t have to, they choose to, in the name of growth.

If New York Times decided to operate in China too, deliver news in chinese about China, they would have the same problem.
Drew, ever since sourcehut got a little positive attention you seem to have adopted this mindset of "I started my own company and don't have to work for the man anymore, why doesn't everyone else just do the same?" You need to realize that this is an extremely narrow minded view to have. Not everyone can start their own business. What would you have done if sourcehut hadn't gained enough popularity to be successful? You would probably be working for [CORP ABC] who surely would be doing something you disliked, too. That would not make you a "bootlicker".

In fact, I'd like to ask this question of you: your website is undoubtedly being used by people to build software that you disagree with, perhaps even censorship. How do you justify still hosting your site instead of shutting it down? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them.

Is it because you need the money from your site? So do Google employees (probably).

Is it because you still enjoy the work of building your site? So do Google employees (probably)?

Is it because on the aggregate you think that your site still provides benefit to society, despite it possibly being used for things you disagree with? So do Google employees (probably).

There are plenty of reasons why people still work for Google, and you probably would relate to them too if you stopped being so combative towards anyone who works for [big corp].
I had the same opportunity letter, something about entrepreneurship but also referenced a claim number.

Here's the link: https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment/unemployment-benefits-fraud
Asus has an X570 with supported ECC don't remember the exact middl model name, but it had WS in the name.

I do wish memtest86 had a rowhammer style test, as that should tell if ECC is working
First I have to have a stable OS. Then I have to make kernel updates to support the kind of process management I want. Then I have to fix the other kernel bugs affecting my update. Then I have to modify the network drivers. Then I have to ... 5 years later what was I even working on in the first place?
Blockchain: Not Just for Bitcoin – News – NREL
While not all comment-wars are flame-wars I know what you mean. I've been involved in a few. Trouble is, if the chinese trolls cause enough trouble that the mods are happy to let the thread vanish[1], the trolls have won. Scratch that, china has won, because there's a strong reek of high-level organisation behind it.

[1] Assuming that's what is occurring; I don't know.
Personally I’m not really offended by rare appearance of “共匪”. Politically this word implies the failure to recognize the legal government of mainland China, which goes against international consensus. I’m not surprised this word is blocked at scale
In America yeah. They did it in China.
"This one weird trick copy editors don't want you to know..."

I think journalism has to go this way because of what it competes with.
Im 1000% in favor of mandatory parental leave, but that's the risk: it incentivizes companies to try shift their labor force into gigs and contract roles as much as they can get away with.

In 2012, I was canvassed by a McCain supporter who voted for Obama in 2008, but was disillusioned after his employer reduced his hours just below the threshold of the ACA requirement; he was forced to work two part-time jobs to make ends meet, neither of which provided healthcare. I suspect a non-trivial portion of the Tea Party / Trump backlash was in reaction to this sort of collateral damage: ACA helped many, but also left some worse off, even if employers and/or insurance companies should bear the primary blame.
Show HN: Spacemacs like action menu in VSCode
iOS and iPadOS 13.5 GM Released
> Nobody has global jurisdiction.

So Europe gets a YouTube without guns but with nudity?