skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a large part of the success of duplicate apps in china due to the great firewall preventing outside tech from suceeding in chinese markets? Baidu is just a worse google, alibaba is a worse amazon, list goes on, I'm sure I could find ten more.
They quit. The process selects for the most sociopathic because the fitness function is heavily weighted towards bringing profits in the short term. Ethics are only a consideration to the extent that they affect public perception (hence profits) or safeguard against litigation ( protecting profits).
I disagree and think it is significantly different. Facebook decision makers have way more agency in the directions their company takes than a consumer has in their choice of clothes to buy at Target (or wherever).

Shirt consumers don't have much of a choice. They can only buy what's for sale (and in their price range). And then, how can they be sure if a shirt was or wasn't made by child labor? How would an individual consumer's behavior lead to ending child labor?

According to the article, Facebook execs understood what the product was doing, and, while they have the ability to stop it, don't. Maybe I understand what you're saying if we're talking engineers/middle managers, but that's a boring conversation. The buck has to stop somewhere.
> Still doesn't matter. Folks like the OP won't support writers.

"Folks like the OP" mentioned they use GOG, No Starch Press, etc, so they presumably don't mind paying as long as the experience is reasonable, DRM- and bullshit-free.

That's the thing with piracy: it's often more convenient than buying the thing. If the pirate book/game/music is unencumbered and easier to use on more devices, but the legal book/game/music is DRM-laden and requires proprietary devices or apps to use, which one would you choose?

I can lend or give a real book to whoever I want. Forever or temporarily. I can buy used books I find at discount used book stores.
This press release encourages me to think China is covering up something.

This /may/ be the case. But the FBI wants me to come to this conclusion.

It seems a little fishy.
This reminds me of this problem which made the rounds recently[0], where a word problem essentially makes a lot of people commit a fencepost error

[0] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/379927/how-long-wil...
Agreed, if you look at cable news channels these day its all about division and fighting.
Reddit has the same issues of division and does not do anything as a company to sort people. It all comes down to the individuals themselves.

Is division really all that new or can we just see it more now?
Mozilla? I guess the most important step for them to fix the internet is to fire people when they dare to have a "wrong opinion" ten years ago.

An organization that uses that kind of violence against political opponents will never "fix" the internet.
I came to read the article precisely because I was familiar with his work.
I'm seeing that my upload speed (90M) is way under both what is advertised, and what other speed tests show. Is there a good way to test what my actual upload speed is?
I'm glad it's Lua since it gives me a leg up over all the other companies with devs who don't want to learn a new language. OpenResty is slept on so hard.
The Korean number is the CFR (known deaths divided by known cases). The CDC number is the symptomatic IFR (all deaths divided by all symptomatic infected). These can't be directly compared--Korea has done a good job tracing and testing, but they're not claiming to be catching every case. In the other direction, Korea's number also includes asymptomatic cases while the CDC's doesn't.

Korea's average CFR over all population is ~2x even the high estimates of IFR from serology in high-incidence regions (New York, Lombardy) or universal PCR testing of isolated populations (Diamond Princess). It would make sense that their underascertainment would be yet higher for younger people, if they experience lighter symptoms and are thus less likely to seek medical care.
The main thing I find myself explaining with percentages (IANA educator) is that 'grossing up' != adding the same percentage back, e.g. 80% * 1.2 != 100%, which looks pretty obvious like that, but it's a common mistake among adults talking about real life percentages like taxes.

Another common, and I suppose related, one (but that I don't bother correcting often) is 'percent' != 'percentage point'. Talk of 47% of something being '3% less than' half of it really winds me up - and it's stupidly common among journalists - but it's too common to bother pointing out IMO. Live and let get wrong.
Funny. I'm sure the Wall Street Journal knows the same thing, but reaps profits from it as well.
Shirtaloon. Sorry, english is not my first language
Yes there is a correlation between Vitamin D deficiency and COVID mortality. But you are not just saying that. You are saying that the effect size coming from Vitamin D explains a significant portion of the excess mortality in Sweden. That's just a guess and it's weird that you would make that conjecture when there's the wildly spectacular policy difference between Sweden and everyone else. Neither of the studies you linked support that.

I don't have time to read the studies you linked. If you did, what is the relative impact of socioeconomic status, the fact that the most polluted zip codes in NYC are predominantly black neighborhoods, and vitamin D deficiency?
Something I find fascinating, over the last 5 years the main bottleneck on my internet connection has gone from the provider to my wifi, despite ~3 standard revisions in that time frame. It makes the notion of a wireless only provider somewhat appealing if they can manage similar speeds to wifi (within range of the 5G standard ).
I've typically found my employment via companies who deal with a variety of contracts, some of them for weapons or defense contractors.

I could go down the rabbit hole of chasing down all those contracts and would probably find that many of the products my company makes get sold to groups and causes that I don't support. But in the end; I've gotta eat.

Do I want to throw away my career which is 99% unrelated to the SJW cause I support just because 5% of our products eventually get used against that cause. What about the 95% of our products which go to worthy causes?

I'll say it again... I just gotta eat, man. What's good for the gander is probably good for the goose too.
"The East India Trading Company is just an extension of the open seas."
Discontinuous Progress in History: An Update
The iatrogenic hypothesis remains an outsider opinion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3376824/
Its incredible to me how pessimistic people are about their own world.

> Capital investment is best spent on a sound currency, strong local manufacturing base and a strong legal system to protect both from corruption as well as the Human rights of its populations; unfortunately no nation Western or Eastern seems intent on doing that... like ever in History.

This is pretty much what every single western country has done.

Can you argue that they didn't do it perfectly. Sure, but what the are you comparing it to? Some perfect utopia. Everything falls short to that.

Your assertions fly directly in the face of the existence of you having a computer that you are typing that on.

The British government has existed for arguable 100s of years, would you call that a short time? Since about 1700-1800 they had about 2% growth per year.

> I'm sure many of you are seeing visions of Westworld or Psycho pass type dystopias but I'm convinced there is a middle ground between the two we just haven't been able to arrive to due to constant conflicts, and endless wars that drain the World of Human capital and technological resources best used for this end.

Wars now are in fact less common then at any time in history, and that includes the casualties of war.

By any actual look at the numbers war was never less frequent and human prosperity never higher. I really don't understand the pessimism that western elites seem to believe in so strongly (I'm assuming you are part of a western elite).

> But I also find it funny how some of Elon Musk's, an openly declared Utopian Anarchist,

Can you give me a source on that? Asked about his political views he said he was socially liberal, economically conservative.

He seems to me to be more of a libertarian type, certainty not a left anarchist or even an anarcho-capitalist.

> biggest proponents haven't realized the fact that all of his and Kimbal's businesses are aimed to help establish a colony on Mars where he has gone on record to say one of the biggest reasons to do so it try and re-do all of this non-sense on Earth with a blank slate canvas approach, and this is the extreme one has to go to do it.

He has said about 100x more often that in general having a backup in case of extinction level that is gone happen is 100% on a long enough time scale. He has also said that separation often lends itself to experimentation with social structure, but he made those comments based on historical knowledge.

We know that is happens like that, I don't think he said that in a Utopian spirit.

> People keep accepting that War with China is inevitable

I certainty don't.
Right, I meant "no other site" at HN's scale. I tried to make that clear later (edit: and have added something earlier in the post to say it explicitly).

Of course I may be wrong about this—I probably am. But in that case I'm curious to know what they are, so we can learn from them.

It isn't just about scale, but also scope. If a forum has a specific topic—Lego, let's say—then the problems I'm writing about are off the table, because it's easy to tell which posts are about Lego and which aren't, and the community will happily support moderation of the latter.
Don’t be too quick to judge, perhaps he wanted digital copies of books he already owns in paper form.
I recommend reading through some of my criteria (ability to use npm modules, TypeScript React components, etc). May be possible with Wordpress (haven't tried it) but sounds like an uphill battle.
Maybe in a few years we'll have bridged the gap between computer and machine capabilities. Not by deciding computers think, but by realizing that what humans do is computing.
"some of the projections were correct"

Are you referring to Ioannidis? If not, can you link to them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23115056
I think there is a crowd that kneejerk downvotes ideas they interpret as anti-capitalist, without reading the argument.

An example: I am not a Marxist. But I think the Marxist question of "surplus value" as an ethical question is relevant and interesting. I pointed it out on HN a few times. Again, without being a Marxist, just intellectually curious. Nobody ever asks me if I am really a Marxist. I get downvoted pretty severely when I point it out. I get an impression that they smell a whiff of the opposing sports team and turn negative.
You have to factor in how the algorithm rewards content that drives engagement. Without that, it's more like an open society.
Apparently this is not even an actual hologram, it is a LCD or OLED with a linear lenticular lens attached. Big difference!
AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud
I maybe wrong but this sounds like a good recipe for groupthink bias, low-level fascism, newspeak, and weaponizing a CoC for cyber-crybully attacks and de-platforming while purporting to promote contrary ideals. Orwellian and Kafkaesque, eh? So much for classical liberalism, free association, and tolerating (not necessarily condoning or endorsing) a diversity of viewpoints. Identity politics and unspoken "correct/acceptable" beliefs come next. Sigh
Ask HN: Who may benefit from the Covid-19 crisis, politically?
further references:

https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/covid-19-geopoliti...

https://eurasiantimes.com/is-china-planning-to-attack-taiwan...

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21234598/coronavirus-china-xi-...
This is the kind of political goggles that i referred to, which twist every kind of argument. It's pure bad faith argumentation not worthy of follow up.

(which the groupthink here unfortunately encourages)
>Are you saying the original owner can destroy the token they already gave you?

With most tokens, no. They are yours forever. If the token creator did want to set this up then they can do it though. An example is RealT which tokenizes rental housing. They can revoke a token and re-issue it if they need to (if you lose your token or it gets stolen) and they are up front about this. It is very obvious when a token has a backdoor and most of them do not as it's kind of a scandal when someone does backdoor a token and people don't adopt it.

>Regarding social recovery

I did cover theft in my comment but I'll elaborate. Smart contract wallets are more sophisticated than simply money being stored on a computer. They operate a lot like banks do today with daily spending limits, trusted owners, and the like. With Argent for example you can limit outgoing transfers to non-whitelisted addresses to $100 a day similar to how ATMs are limited in the amount you can withdraw daily. This cuts down on loss due to theft. As soon as you notice $100 missing you would recover your wallet (like replacing your debit card) and the thief wouldn't be able to steal anymore. Also, in case you don't know the technicals, wallets are generally very secure and even if an extension can see your wallet they won't be able to access the funds as they are cryptographically protected and also secured by a password/biometrics. So it's not likely that your funds will be stolen by a run-of-the-mill thief and even if they are successful the loss is limited.

With all that said, a lot of people will likely still use banks to store and use their crypto as those existing trusted intermediaries still work just fine. People just have the option of storing their digital money themselves now.
sole proprietorships and llc's, which would be the main mode of organizing a small company for donations, are for the most part pass-through to individual income for tax purposes and so would have roughly the same tax overhead (aka 0%) as a non-profit religious entity

also: one could just as easily create a 'x rights activism' group as a tax-free non-profit so why single out religion specifically?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308678
The privacy angle is a total distraction. The intent of these "exposure notification" apps is to tell you that you have been exposed. Six degrees from Kevin Bacon means everyone gets a notification, everyone lives in fear. Fear is the most powerful tool for control.
For the beta roles (because I can't help mapping wolf/pack behavior to most corp meetings anymore) about all a person can do is mount a weak defense. Which gets ignored by upper mgmt as they justify ASPD with a framework that says the number one priority is the corporate profit statement.

What percentage of people in these meetings are so wealthy they can risk everything over morally gray area decisions like this? Further how many can get away with it repeatedly should they choose to fight a battle like this?
DMCA takedown issued over casio code that wasnt
Interesting! Could sufficiently enhanced compile-time reflection (say we do get supercharged CT reflection in C++2b*) be used to implement fully transparent&automatic versioning in serialization frameworks?
I know very little on this subject but I think boost serialization, though capable of handling multiple versions of a given class, requires manually 'tagging' source files as being say, version 1,2,etc.
Perhaps. All I meant was to show there's never been a time where they've had to acknowledge pricing something sufficiently badly that they had to go back and adjust prices up, perhaps after seeing how customers were using it.

The slack I'm giving is for the complexity in their billing, not in the price itself.
or if students are in both tables
I think the OP has a point though. Back in the beginning of the DRM wars, many argued that "IP theft", "thieves", "stealing" were metaphors used by media companies to mislead customers. You know the clumsy anti-piracy advert, "you wouldn't steal a car...". It was clumsy then and it's clumsy now.

Illegal copying is not stealing. Sad to see this narrative won in the end, I thought we were past this. I though we -- the users -- had won.
"most businesses don't know how to transform unpredictable progress into profit"

Unpredictable progress is lethal to businesses. As an example, it does not matter how brilliant Steve Jobs was or Elon Musk is, they both need to show regular results that build confidence from shareholders.

About the only time you may not care for steady progress is if you have abundance of resources and clear goal like Bill Gates with his foundation. This guy may believe in something and keep steady stream of funds just on basis of his beliefs that something is right.

But the funds themselves must have been gathered some other way.

It is difficult to get funds for unknown payoff at unknown time in the future.
An IP address is merely one of thousands of ways that you could identify the source of network traffic.
(1) It's not a bad idea to compare contemporary fiction with ancient fiction. Most of the 2500+ yr old blockbusters are basically superhero movies.

(2) "Yamato Nasdeshiko" is not a "Magical Girlfriend", rather it is a different ideal of Japanese femininity which may or not be associated with magic.

(3) "Magical Girlfriend" is not Japanese in origin. See "I dream of Jeannie"
Nobody cares about, or remembers generic merchant #2 in Bumtown, Nowhere

They would if Bumtown were in the first circle of hell, and she was the only one selling gate-back-to-the-prime tickets.
Swapping 2000 lbs+ of batteries is faster than filling tank? When is the last time you hauled thousands of pounds? It ain’t fast, let me tell you that.
That sounds right. Fear and conflict drives higher engagement. Although it makes business sense to chase higher engagement, I wonder how much of people's distrust with Facebook the brand is just a reflection of how people feel when engaging the product.
Seattle engineer charged in federal court with coronavirus relief fraud
Bitcoin surviving the March 2020 deleveraging shows BTC is ready for a bull run
Xfininty used to have 3d on demand as well. I have a 3d tv from 2012 and love it. It also has an interesting feature where it can interpolate 2d => 3d which depending on the content works very well, or is a complete mess.
HoneyBook: Client Management Software for Small Businesses
I want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.
This seems like one of those things that sounds nice, but isn't special enough to supplant the existing good-enough-for-most-people methods that are already must more entrenched (phone #, email, in-app QR codes come to mind first). Especially since there isn't a single "online identity" for most people in the US, and as you mention sharing selectively is arguably a feature, not a bug.

There are lots of examples of "good enough" stuff preventing adoption of newer tech across the world. I see stuff like the weird US checking account clearance system in this bucket - it would be really expensive to replace, so despite there being newer, better systems elsewhere, it's seen as "good enough" - or the relatively slow uptake of electronic payment in Japan even as cash-based vending machines were far more ubiquitous than elsewhere. That's a lot of infrastructure to upgrade, so advantages have to be extreme, not just present.
>this stereotype was built on pattern recognition over time.

How good was your input data and labels? ;)
> The data is still stored in the app.

What's the issue with the data being stored in the app?
Actions are not the same as speech. You can mandate vaccinations without restricting people's right to protest against vaccines. Just like you can prohibit marijuana without restricting people's ability to protest for legalization.
The author tries to compare the preprocessor with programming languages, however he seems to forget that the processor is, above all, not a language! There is no parse tree for a preprocessor, since it is just putting text strings together, with little regard for the resulting syntax. That's why it is stupid to try to use the Cpp as a programming language, it won't work. Think of it as a text replacement engine, like an integrated sed, for example.
It's also interesting that Nvidia (via Mellanox) announced on their blog their support for SONiC [0] a week after they acquired Cumulus.

[0] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/12/mellanox-integrated...
There are very many lucky people who are now fierce libertarians on HN these days.
or if we're really lucky, it will be represented on a blockchain that doesn't have a massive pre-mine and actually values immutability.
If you think Apple simply "took something off the shelf" and sold us iPhones at huge markups, you clearly know even less about R&D than I assumed. Cherry-picking examples like the Internet doesn't really prove your point: try comparing the amount of taxpayer-funded R&D that went into the early (pre-1994) Internet with the amount of private investment since then. (I have no idea what the actual numbers are but I'd guess at least two orders of magnitude difference based on what I've seen elsewhere.)
Interestingly, some source code can be seen at https://github.com/ubuntulover09/aarogyasetu_android (forked from https://github.com/AarogyaSetu/aarogyasetu_android which is unavailable right now)

Did they accidentally publish and someone took a fork?

It also popped up in my GitHub search results as well:

https://twitter.com/Abhas9/status/1265337350755741698
Learning to Code with the ImagiCharm
What's New with Qt for Android
Ugh, such strong language. Please censor it as M*rx or, better yet, "literally Satan".
Hey Dan, do you have a link to register on tildes? Seems to be invite only for me.
There have been much better submissions on HN in the past on this topic, but this post is a superficial analysis and not very valuable
Pug 3.0.0
>>There is no reason to believe EV charging will be different.

This is exactly what I'm saying though - motorway petrol stations are insanely expensive, because they have no competition - a company wins a contract to run the only petrol station on a given stretch of the A1, so they can charge obscene prices for petrol. Same is already happening with electricity - some providers along motorways charge an insane £0.69 per kWh, it would be cheaper to fill up another car with premium unleaded and use it to charge the electric car at that point.
Yes, that's what I mean. But only Hashify still exists apparently...
7 Tools for GUI Development on Raspberry Pi
Probably because parallelization is not the end-all-be-all of management strategies.

Consumers expect most companies to act like a coherent unit, (purportedly due to Dunbar's Number), and when you don't have enough oversight or leadership everything begins to look schizophrenic.

"Self-organizing" is organized chaos. If nobody picks winners at the end it never stops being organized chaos.
All my dependency versions are pinned, and I'm not using any global CLIs that may change under me. Valid concern though if you don't take precautions.
"Stealing an idea" has been a phrase for far longer than that though. Stealing as a metaphor for intangible objects isn't a creation of the media companies.
This is interesting. I wonder if kids can then take that and transfer it over. Bottles and Pencils are obviously different but kids at table A and kids at table B are both kids. Even more problematically, the equation appears to work. I suspect there'll be some amount of dissatisfaction here and the kids won't understand.
I you want more info on JWT there is :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783303 6 month ago 227 comments (first comment by dang referencing all the other posts)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354534 3 months ago 166 comments

and a bunch of other discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=jwt