skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> slow, hard-to-scale Ruby and Rails

I'm sure the tech teams at Shopify and Sephora, both of which regularly do 50k+ requests per second, or maybe Airbnb, Github or Hulu will be super eager to hear your opinions about how Rails is slow and can't scale.
That’s already accounted for by using life years rather than total deaths.

Also, the life expectancy in the US of an 82 year old woman is 9 years and 8 months and for men 8 years and 2 months. Half the deaths are from people younger than this, so on average total lost years per death is well over a decade.

Globally deaths are ~450k at a minimum, meaning lost years are well into the millions with the pandemic still in full swing.

PS: Calculating average life expectancy is tricky because it does not fall 1:1 with years lived.
If you'd like a more detailed analysis rather than a short Q&A, this would be useful

https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42004076

EDIT: Not same author
Of course I do, and had you bothered to read the linked article you'd find them.
Actually, all of the console makers charge game developers a per game fee no matter where you buy it from.

Roku is infamous for not allowing content distributors (except for Netflix) to be on it unless they get a cut.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/roku-plans-to-block-fox-apps-da...

Hey is free to offer subscriptions at a 43% premium through the App Store and still get its full amount.
I've long felt that annotation was one of the greatest missed opportunities of the web. Every major content website implements commenting differently and often poorly. I'd much prefer to have comments come from a third party system where I can: own my own comments, not be subject to removal by the author of the content, and choose the group of people I want to discuss with. Imagine if hackernews discussions appeared right along the content instead of being hidden away where no reader of the content could find them.
We know so little about slavery and the Black experience in the US. Like the nation is too ashamed to teach it. This is another shocking account:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/437573/blacks-were-enslav...
I think that a lot of the problem of not building things comes from profits being the only measure of what matters. The cultural imperative to get rich above all else. Some western technology companies changed at some point where a lot of them were driven by MBAs rather than engineers. They had no problem outsourcing everything to China in order to increase profits.

Building things was "too costly". But the cost was only measured in profits not in lost capability etc. The original founders of these companies built things because they wanted to build them and profit was a means to sustaining that. The Chinese are doing the same. The current culture in some western companies is weak and unsustainable in the same way that just eating sugar is weak and unsustainable.
> They're basically intentional time capsules.

That's an interesting way of looking at it. When we buried my dad, we buried him in his favorite suit, with his cowboy boots, plus his slippers because the mortician said they wouldn't be able to get the boots on his feet. I think we tossed several other knickknacks in there before they closed the casket up. They gave us flowers off the burial wreath at the gravesite, and I know I tossed one or two of them inside the vault before they closed that up.

There's sort of an overwhelming instinct to give the dead "the things they'd like".
Making RSS more visible again with a /feeds page
I went to a barbershop and the owner was cutting hair because only 2 or 3 of the other barbers wanted to come back. I thought there would be a huge line or backlog but I was the only one in there and she said it's just been really hard to get people to feel safe to come back in. They're checking temperatures, requiring masks etc. but not enough have felt safe to go there.

However, I also started going to the gym again and that has been jam packed with people. They roped off a lot of machines and areas to keep people distanced but it doesn't seem like that will help. Every time I've been I'm one of the two patrons that wears a mask. Other than staff, no one does.

I don't think there's any clear cut statistics on this but people are definitely split on the issue of remaining quarantined/doing basic stuff and going back to business as usual.
If apple’s store provides value they should be able to capture some at a higher price point. Charge $149 for it on the store, $99 on Android and web subscriptions. Get some of that sweet “apple tax”
Is the Laplace eigenbasis considered a basis in a relaxed sense that permits non-orthogonality or does the notion of orthogonality itself change to counteract the apparent redundancy?
It’s what the TLD stands for; nothing prescriptive nor to agree with. It’s a fact.
I am going to have to agree here. At best it's a terrible estimation and at worst it's utter nonsense. That being said, we didn't have to shut down the global economy to deal with this crisis.
Makes a good case for expensive TLDs
Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s
Are you seriously claiming to hold moral high ground while siding with Google and Facebook? If you think it's okay to use them but not Apple, the most benign of the major companies, that people only interact with when they CHOOSE to, your bizarre crusade kind of loses its edge.

Even if one NEVER explicitly uses any Google or Facebook service, they would still be feeding their day to them just by visiting completely unrelated websites.

Apple does a lot more good for people than either of them.
> Regression is any algorithm that takes a collection of inputs and predicts an output.

I get that the author is writing for a certain audience, but this is a gross over-simplification.
Politicians on both sides are using nationalism as a diversion from the pandemic and the economy. This is a dangerous game.

On tech India should perhaps take a page from China's book. China is working hard to develop domestic tech giants. Where are India's?
Their whole "filtering everything out until you whitelist the sender" approach which is the one feature that sets HEY apart from the other providers wouldn't really work with normal IMAP.

As for IMAP with more JSON there would also be Fastmails https://jmap.io/
"Although the source code of the app is available, we cannot compile it, run it, and make it work without signing an agreement with Apple or Google. We do not find it compatible with the notion of open source." <-- Isnt this the case with every app?
https://web.archive.org/web/20200618161818/https://yarmo.eu/...
Chilling! That would scare the heck out of me.
Apple TV Channels: A Great TV Experience That’s Failing
I don't normally chime in on comments like this, but I just have to say: what are you talking about? If 99.9999% of traffic from a domain is spam,it makes complete sense to block it as spam.
> I have trouble to see the risk with processing payments for online porn.

Huge number of chargebacks. A previous employer of mine had a subsidiary that handled premium rate SMS and phone call billing, a lot of which was adult services. You'd see a huge amount of contested charges, for reasons such as:

* Buyer's remorse (get drunk, wake up the next day, realise you spent $500 on porn)

* Unsupervised minor - your kid "borrows" your credit card for some online "research"

* Outright fraud - stolen cards, etc.
As a european, I don't understand why the european response is seen as significantly better on this front than the US', especially in the context of Andreeson's criticism.

I mean, Europe has had some of the worst outbreaks, mortality rates, failures of the hospital system, elderly care... The horror of peak covid in northern Italy was, largely, a preventable failure.

We also see a similar helplessness when it came to actions that required "building." Ability or inability to do "lockdown" well varied, but that's not building.

The one obvious thing that did need "build" was testing, contact tracing and such. Very few countries managed to scale up testing fast, even by now.
Anyone remember when gmail came out and Google was certain their searching/filtering/archiving capabilities were so good that they declared you would never need to delete email again...so much so that they didn't include delete functionality at first? With enough feedback they thankfully backed down.

The Basecamp folks are opinionated and strong-willed, so I'm not sure that they will back down on the unfortunately named "imbox," but I hope they do. Fortunately this isn't as colossal of a mistake as the no-delete-gmail mistake, and in the end, it's not a huge deal (q.v., the name of the iPad was a big deal to some when it came out) but they clearly were too clever for their own good here.
There must be some name for the effect seen here so regularly, which might best be described as the contrast in magnitudes of something being posted to the comments made about it.

In this case we have a fundamental contribution to mathematics that is succinctly captured in 252 words, producing a 209 word complaint essentially about whitespace.
>A big part of the contact tracing protocol (which was originally the DP3T protocol) is implemented by Apple-Google in a part of the system called GAEN. This part has no available source code although the law requires disclosure of the source code of all components of the system.

By the same logic, this would seem to require all of iOS and Android to be open source. Where does the "App" end and the underlying OS and libraries begin in this requirement?
This is smart. It's like having Elgato's Stream Deck in the browser. Well done!
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They provide all the infrastructure to deliver the iOS app binary, receive notifications, etc.
Who knows whether that investment actually happened at this point...
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I know this was meant in jest, but isn't that part of the system always "hot" as long as there is power, seeing as the entire point is to provide remote management capability?
Is email actually an urgent problem for people? Most of my personal communication is outside of email these days. In fact, I have gmail up for texting more than sending emails. Unsubscribing from commercial email generally works fine. My inbox feels very much under control. Maybe I am just not important enough for an Imbox.
4 feet sidewalk is a joke. It is not enough to keep the social distance.
I think HN looks down on gaming their system. Comments like the above should be flagged.
Got a file not found with the link above, but this [1] is a few hours ago: "SoftBank Support for Wirecard Under Scrutiny After Meltdown"

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/softbank-support...
> If I buy into one of the points of the article- that there are people in China who are in positions of power who are unified, know what they want, know where they are, and thus will figure out to get there- and I think about how my peer group would respond, I get worried.

That sounds like you are comparing your (probably average) peer group to an imagined group of people in positions of power. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
Why do you think systemd is defendable for this? The prior init system had a means by which individual init scripts could be disabled during boot. I can't run systemd-analyze when the system off in lala-land for 5+ minutes. Moreover, if I know what is wrong, why can't I just cancel the job it's waiting for like I could previously from the console? It is a unacceptably bad user interface experience. There is no excuse for it. Again, this worked previously - why was this functionality lost / hidden? It's this "punch the user in the face" style of user interface design that I object to that is so prevalent in the corner cases of modern UIs.
I rather like it. Probably because it strikes me as something my kids would find funny, and a bit of that affection wears off on it. Can't see myself using Hey for other reasons, but that one at least is ok with me.
Yes, it's a ridiculous absolutist argument.
Despite your sarcasm, there's evidence for both.
Focusing on hey for a sec: I understand that some people might prefer a system where they can take various components and combine them how they like best, in the same way some people like to cook their own meals.

But what's weird is this sense of anger at products that aren't as flexible. It's like being upset that a new restaurant opened up because they have a set menu and don't let you make your own food. If you like cooking your own meals, great! Keep doing that. This restaurant is for people that want someone else to make a meal for them.

With slack I understand the frustration a little more, since it's something an entire company is going to be using and asking you to use.
Still doesn't mean that people actually know or care about the original intended meaning.

Lots of words have a different meaning now than they had originally. Not even talking about the meaning of acronyms.
Don't let a few facts get in the way of that good story:

The yellowcake removed from Iraq in 2008 was material that had long since been identified, documented, and stored in sealed containers under the supervision of U.N. inspectors. It was not a “secret” cache that was recently “discovered” by the U.S, nor had the yellowcake been purchased by Iraq in the years immediately preceding the 2003 invasion. The uranium was the remnants of decades-old nuclear reactor projects that had put out of commission many years earlier: One reactor at Al Tuwaitha was bombed by Israel in 1981, and another was bombed and disabled during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Moreover, the fact that the yellowcake had been in Iraq since before the 1991 Gulf War was plainly stated in the Associated Press article cited in the example above:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/have-your-yellowcake/

No. Uranium recently shipped from Iraq to Canada was left over from Saddam Hussein’s defunct nuclear weapons program and had been in sealed containers, under guard, since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. Claims that this material is "vindication" for President Bush’s WMD claims in 2003 are completely false.

https://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/uranium-in-iraq/#:~:text=%...
> This just isn't an issue for 99.9% of users.

Until years later we have fewer people interested in learning how computers work, because the only devices they ever owned were locked down walled gardens.

Maybe these people don't even know what they're missing, because they've never even seen it?
Email is an exceedingly hard thing to change.

Nothing much succeeds in actually changing the way it works.

What does work is developing communication systems unrelated to email ie slack.

My prediction is that Hey will fail but will pivot into something else which the developers will take as a victory.
One also can think of transforms as the eigenfunctions of the continuous part of the spectrum of a differential operator. In differential equations (DE) theory, a well posed DE has a structure (the DE itself), a domain and enough independent boundary conditions.

Fourier transform will show up for an harmonic oscilator in the whole real line with incoming and outgoing wave boundary conditions, while Laplace will show up when working on semi-infinite interval whit initial conditions and proper convergence at infinity.

These are the most common, but not the only transforms one can build. There are also Melin and Hankel transforms, and by playing with the operator, the domain and the boundary conditions, we can construct the adequate transform for each given problem.

Spectral theory of DE’s is such a beautiful topic.
I think the point here is that on iOS, compiling/running/making it work requires an entitlement (i.e. permission) that is granted only to those who are signatories to Apple's agreement on getting access to the Covid API.

See the yellow "important" box on https://developer.apple.com/documentation/exposurenotificati... for some more info. Not sure how this works on Android but I assume there is a similar permissions gate to prevent other apps accessing this feature.
Thank you for the linked information.!
If you want to come across as a fadtech startup with shitly named products, then go with .io and .ly.
Oh, how the tables have turned! I still remember Microsoft's chokehold on the entire industry in the 1990s, their "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy, and nearly total monopoly.

Now the wolf is an advocate for the sheep :-)
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This is kinda neat...

You run OBS in your computer, displaying video from several phones you are using as NDI video devices, and control all of that on an iPad (or something else) running a web browser.

Thinking thru this, you can run your whole home studio setup while sitting at a desk looking like an anchor/host with minimal fuss.

Honestly, I think this will help people up their game on small budget productions.

I love OBS. Waiting for it to work with Zoom again though (not their fault - that’s a Zoom thing).
Yeah almost all my notifications come through apps. I get about five To twenty emails a day and just action them when they come in. I don’t need to ‘manage’ an inbox.
> The vast majority of the population that uses emails prefers notification for important mails.

Do you have a source for that?
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There's a pretty cool project by oskar stalberg that does something like that (arguably even better because the output is often very beautiful).

https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/1266264444276858884
I'm all for the idea of more targeted mitigations. In hindsight, the play we should have made is obvious. The moment is became clear that a highly contagious virus was happening in China, we ought to have closed all borders, shut down, instituted mandatory quarantine (including for repatriating Americans), and eradicated the virus, keeping numbers at zero. We could have reopened and at least had a working domestic economy, like Mongolia or New Zealand.

However, I don't think anyone has yet demonstrated working policy stances that effectively mitigate the spread of the virus and are materially different from what we're doing now. I've heard plenty of folks articulate the idea that such policies are possible, but I don't think we know enough about the virus to really be confident that they would work.
For a full view of not just what an executive says, but Microsoft's actions here:

The Windows app store gives a 95/5 cut to developers, as long as the download happened from an external link to the page. If the discovery happened via an app store search or marketing within the app store, that cut changes to 85/15 [1]

I would also like to find some revenue split data for the Xbox store, though I imagine that's far more nuanced, with many different contracts for different third parties. If I'm an indie developer with no negotiating power, is that a 70/30?

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/06/microsoft-store-revenue-share...
When fraud is too brazen it becomes difficult to believe the accusations because the claims are so outrageous. Especially when a company looks respectable and employs many people the natural instinct is to dismiss the naysayers and critics.

Short sellers and investigative reporters are natural contrarians. There just aren't many people willing to invest years into proving that everybody else is wrong, especially when the victory -- if you get one at all -- will be pyrrhic.

When you make claims that are outside the overton window of the listener they can't hear what you're saying because to them you sound unhinged. I think that's what happened here.
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It would be an addition, Quibi has a way to slim offering to replace any/all the other offerings. I liked some of their originals, and that's the only reason. Their short form (10m) episodes are also welcomed by me, since I often find myself needing a quick break to reset myself.
I'm with HEY on this issue.

As of a few months ago, Netflix abandoned in-app purchases entirely on Apple platforms. Try it yourself: sign out of your Netflix account on iOS and try and create a new account. There is no option to pay for a Netflix subscription within the app on iOS. It just isn't there.

Fastmail is another app already on the App store that requires an account (but has no option to sign up within the app itself). Salesforce Inbox and GMail are two other email apps currently on the App store that do not allow the user to sign up within the app itself.

(An aside about Gmail: I'm now receiving almost-daily emails from Google

> Your Gmail is full. Get more storage now with a Google One membership. Plans start at $1.99 a month.

How much of that money do you think Apple would like to get? How much of that money goes to Apple? None. That is not implemented as an in-app purchase.
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> If they don't agree then maybe the really are right until you convince them otherwise.

How far back can you take that? Were they right about slavery, the nazis etc.? Or were they somehow magically wrong then, but are right ever since?
the 3d visualization makes it appealing to modelling mechanistic phenomena. But the area were widespread simulation woudl be impactful are in social sciences.
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Then Bilbo woke up and opened his eyes. "Hullo, Frodo!" he said. "Well, I have passed the Old Took today! So that's settled. And now I think I am quite ready to go on another journey. Are you coming?"
More likely to scare, but since it's in a sealed case and looks like a firearm it's easier to get the attendant to accept that it is a firearm when checking it. It matches their expectations of what a gun should look like. And since it's in a sealed case nobody unexpected will see it anyway, so scares are unlikely.
If you entirely remove human nature from the equation then perhaps. But that would be pointlessly futile.