skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That choice isn't a real choice though, as it's the consumers' choice to buy an iPhone not the businesses. Businesses only have a real choice about who their customers are when there is free access to the market. The issue here is precisely that you cannot set up your own internet corner shop and ignore Apple, as that means you have no access to consumers who use Apple. Internet distribution channels are inherently open and borderless, until companies like Apple artificially restrict the market.
> I'd also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that it is not possible to publish an application on the Apple App Store without paying. Period end.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the same is true for games on the Xbox, PlayStation and nearly every mainstream games console for the past thirty years. Pretty much every games console software title included a healthy cut for Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, or Sony. And if you didn't have the explicit blessing of these companies, you couldn't publish your games at all. Period end.

Where was your outrage then?
Perhaps it is a matter of my preestablished cynicisms but this seems like a campaign contribution shakedown/stupid election year publicity stunt where they rail against a big bad company for complete bullshit reasons. I don't get why people go with the Apple locked down system personally but they aren't even a majority of the market nor a plurality.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that the House gives a shit about interoperability given the DMCA and lack of right to repair laws.
yikes, please link frameworks that make your code more difficult.
We're not hiring.
would you mind saying what the main roadblock to more productivity in rails was for you, compared to react?
I can't be too open, but I work with a firm that makes IoT products, sold at retail, and as part of the contract a retailer was granted a percentage stake in the attached subscription service since otherwise the margins weren't sufficient for them.

There's no reason that should be illegal. A contract is a contract is a contract.
The point was that there are illusions which hold lots of people for long time. Religions are a good example. However to keep really lots of people for a really long time, religion should survive itself - and outcompete others, and that's not easy. So the argument "religion" shouldn't be brought every time a government is suspected in doing something... conspirological.
Using Template Haskell to generate static data
That would still create protections for people outside the US but with US-friendly administrations. Using a VPN in less US-friendly nation could increase protection. Is it safe? Probably not. Is it safer? Most likely.
The phone launched without a store.
Oh, I'm aware of the corruption that follows nuclear programs–every effort of that size and expense has it; it's all but inevitable. But I still maintain that "a spreadsheet on excel" is a much more accurate way of ascertaining risk than your personal experience. Mostly because your personal experience doesn't include the people who in coal-related deaths every year.
> The best way is to use the Socratic method, if you have a lot of time. If you throw enough wilful ignorance, compliments, kindness, genuine interest and an endless amount of questions at someone, you’ll eventually get them arguing with them selves. It’s really the only way to move someone, because you’re not really convincing them of anything, they are doing that themselves.

That's probably the most succinct description of rhetoric using the Socratic method I have seen to date; highlighting the way its used in effective discourse is as a guide to a conclusion rather than an argument. Very well put.

> Of course in the modern day and age, such a conversation is rarely going to happen.

Agreed. But even in Plato's time this was rare, too. Which is why The Republic was written the way that it was: a Philosophical discourse approached with this method in mind told via (hypothetical?) dialogue(s) amongst other Philosophers and eventually members of the State to reveal a premise that most could arrive on their own with enough inquiry as to the onerous Nature of the State--even in it's ideal portrayal of the coming Golden Age of the Hellenic Era ushered in by Alexander--and 'good.'

It could have been written merely as proofs with the elucidation of its applications and usecases, as was typical of the time, but instead it took the time to navigate the reader on the likely rebuttals and discourses one may encounter when exploring the Nature of the topic.

To this day I think it stands the time as the most seminal work(s) on Anarchism, it took me 5 readings of all of the books: the first being when I was a sophomore in High School still exploring the ideology and the last being after the death of Grothendieck. Which is probably contrary to what Plato wanted as he himself was an aristocrat who benefited greatly due to his status and standing in Athenian Society that was only possible because of the centralized power of the Athenian-Polis.

All of Plato's work before or since were not comparable and Diogenes, who Plato referred to as 'Socrates gone mad' but also one of the most dedicated Moral Ethicists to have ever existed in my view, was there to remind him of the futility of it.
Didn't know he did that in Houdini. Thought it was a Unity project.
Honestly it's probably easier now than it was in 2006.
> Meanwhile, it's a bit hypocritical for the US Government to accuse private corporations of ‘highway robbery’ when they themselves are committing (or failing to outlaw) literal highway robbery in the form of civil forfeiture.

Indeed it is. So they should address both, not use the current existence of one to excuse the other.
> There's an increasing feeling that Linux is getting there for gamers too.

True, I definitely see a lot more of the things offered by people like itch.io or Humble Bundle having a Linux option.
I’ve noticed this series as well, I wonder what they think they will gain with this level of outward animosity.
I'd rather officers not use lethal force to stop someone who was was not in possession of a deadly weapon.
> Using such information is so hard that almost impossible.

Aren't battery stats not enough for you? If your app uses too much battery, you can stop using it. Or you prefer some other people to make this decision for you?
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (2003)
What are the estimates for those volcanic eruptions on the volcanic explosivity index? Was it an VEI-8?
If it wasn't, what would a VEI-8 eruption cause?
Parcel is old news, Snowpack and Vite is where it's at right now (not joking). Or you ditch node.js completely and go with Deno!
My one run-in with this has been that Firefox and Chromium both use libwebrtc, which is managed by the Chromium project as far as I can tell.
Messenger that puts security and privacy first
Wall Street, bribery and an opioid epidemic: the story of a disgraced drugmaker
They did that on purpose. Too many icky normals with dangerous ideas, and too many articles got ripped to shreds as misleading in the top comments. So they had to discourage comments.
That works very well for services where the app is not the main product... Like Hey.com. They do their own market and don't need the "visibility" of the app store.

They would be pretty happy if they could have a link on their site to download the iOS apps, for their customers.

If Apple still wants to review every app that can be installed, they could propose an option to be in the App Store but unlisted - then the fees goes down to 2 or 3%, just like a credit card fee. But they won't, because they can get away with shaking businesses 30% so they'll keep doing it until someone forces them to stop.
On the spyware part it can be all turned off. They give the Group Policy tools to do it to 'Enterprise Customers' but it is all there in the settings/registry and tools like this will flip it all off for you quickly and easily. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
>Where was your outrage then?

Where was the game publishers' outrage? Where was the game developers' outrage?

Gaming console makers and game developers have way better relations than Apple and the people developing for the App Store. And the game console makers' cut isn't just pure greed. Sony took an estimate loss of $240-$300 on every PS3 sold at launch just in order to widen out the install base.
It also lists Chechen terrorists. The same kind of list for the US would include thousands of people killed by drone strikes.
The Juice Media
Are there any good HeapAnalytics-like frontend widget that can do auto-tracing? The collect-everything retrospective analytics is great tool.
DMOZ were jerks. Insular little commies who didn't want anyone interfering with their control over what people got to see. They killed themselves.
Collaboration between the FT and PBS series ‘Frontline’; no paywall.
People outside the USA do have strong opinions about Trump for better or worse.

The Lancet is a medical journal edited by a British guy who posts strongly left wing and anti-Trump stuff to Twitter all the time. The Lancet published a paper claiming HCQ was dangerous that fell apart immediately, and should never have been accepted at all (e.g. it claimed to be based on the medical records of hundreds of hospitals and something like 90% of all US COVID cases, which is implausible).

Why did such a terrible paper get published? Probably because it appeared to strike a blow against Trump's credibility which the Lancet's editor so desperately wanted. In the end it blew up in his face, though.
The fact that there are apps in both stores that turn out to be malware makes this claim demonstrably false.
Anyone who cares about this issue, just upvote, don't comment. HN's algorithm downranks posts where the comment to upvote ratio is too high.
> I'd also say Repl.it is very similar too.

Indeed. It's interesting that GitHub Classroom uses Repl.it (and another MS web IDE) rather than Github Codespaces:

https://github.blog/2020-05-26-code-in-the-browser-with-gith...

https://classroom.github.com/help/online-ide-integrations

Seems like a friendly ecosystem for the moment.
It came out harsh, sorry. But it is more like asking for a 33cl beverage but getting 35cl.

There are tons of issues with a computer spuriously going to sleep. Network connectivity dies for one, as well as lots of minor quirks such as music stops etc. Having control of that is quite essential.

Being forced to manually sleep despite ones preferences is not a major issue. It is a sub-second operation that comes with lots of benefits. One of which being explicit with what you want to do.
> Not sure what you mean that a data warehouse is in a relations DB?

That you're using an RDBMS of some sort. It understands SQL and the data is in the conventional tabular form. I understand olap vs oltp. My question was whether eg. snowflake was an RDBMS (I did check wikipedia and the snowflake website but neither said). If it wasn't then I could see the benefit of this tool).

> So that data is aggregated, summarized...

That's what SQL is good for, why (if we're already in an RDBMS) do I need another tool on top to do this?

> It's much aggregated, summarized, cleansed, transformed, join, normalized ... that doing all of that ahead of time instead of query time.

Of course, that's what a DW does as it pulls in new data. But that is what SQL also does rather well, so what does this tool bring to the party?
That doesn't always work out cheaper. The sanitation department here needed to replace 80 meters worth of pipes and first went to the in-house construction crew and was quoted a cost of 250,000 SEK (~$25K USD), then shopped it around town and a contractor could do it for 80,000 SEK (~$8K USD).

It usually takes longer too. They replaced a pipe in the street in front of my parents house and it took them one month to complete the job, whereas contractors typically take less than a week start to finish for that length of road.
> The average person, as much as that implies, is capable of some pretty impressive things

They are also capable of some pretty stupid and self-destructive things, too, even in the face of "adequate instructions and warnings".
That's what they want to do, it will probably end up like that - Apple and others will be capped to how much fees they can charge.

EU did this for roaming charges already.
In the Netherlands the government uses anonymous data from cell towers to check how crowded areas are. I agree with the part about Apple having too much power over a too big part of our lives.

I don't agree with the public humiliation part of your post, don't really see it. It seems like a stretch to connect the Corona apps to this even though most of the world figured out how to slow down Corona without any of these apps.
It's unquestionably more for short scripts - what I mostly do - instead of big applications. My memory is of learning Java, where you're all but forced to create custom classes for everything, just in case you need extensibility later. With Python? It can .quack(), and that's all I should care about.

I understand generics have helped here, but they still don't seem quite there. And ironically, I'm finding ML tasks in python to be something that could really benefit from type hints.

Side note, and this bugs me: if people love it - empirically, they do - and you don't understand why - surely that should bring about some introspection? It seems all-too-often to bring about the opposite reflex.

Badly indented python code doesn't run, which it shouldn't - my understanding and the machine's are different. Well-indented python code has a lot less visual noise than other languages. That alone should give pause for thought. Why would you not want that feature?
I thought the jury was still out on masks at least. The WHO keeps changing its mind about them, as do other governments.
It's more like the powers that be were very badly jolted to see that the people, at last, had a voice to speak back with, and we could show that they were lying to us. They then had a reaction and attempted to silence us again, which is still playing out today.
That sounds like a good method, given the time. But I'd like to argue that some people are simply not smart enough to have enough reflection and thoughts about anything.
They need someone else to feed them a theory that fits their view on the world. And that's that. No going back from it.
Usually the good CTFs don't stoop to stupid tricks like these, to be fair.
Houses Of – Beautiful houses across the globe
I also want to subscribe to Mozilla. For viewing Mozilla as a foundation that does the right thing. Thankful for many of the Internet standards Mozilla helped develop.

Please help making Internet decentralized and private again.

* Support for paying content creators without advertising
* Decentralized CDN and compute
* fast privacy
> Server-side rendering or writing raw HTML are over-rated.

Just to be sure: These two are not the same and server-side rendering does not necessitate writing raw HTML. In fact, I think that most advanced languages used on the server-side have means of not writing raw HTML. There are template engines and some languages offer SXML, which already provides you with a kind of template engine.

Personal opinion: I really don't like having to write raw HTML in form of it being just a string, allowing for all kinds of markup issues, formatting issues etc. A programming language or used framework/library should have awareness of the HTML tags and prevent mistakes. SXML prevents mistakes in nesting for example. In Racket and I think in Scheme dialects as well, SXML prevents cross-site scripting by design as well. What many many people get wrong is how they split up their documents. They forget about composability and use only concatenation (looking at you, wordpress themes ...). This severely limits reuse of code. Good templating languages try to nudge you into the direction of making things composable.
My workaround is to run the formatted in the whole codebase as a separate PR, make the commit with a separate user that’s none of my colleagues (like “Prettier <invalid@acme.corp>”) and add that commit’s hash to a file in the repo. I then configure git to use that file for ignoring changes in git blame.

Now the code is formatted and additions won’t trigger reformatting the line or the file.
Another point to this, I equate the modern fediverse with all the old message boards.

Message boards are still around but it used to be an integral part of web culture. They essentially took over from dial up BBS.

But now community boards have moved to cloud services like Discord. The self-hosted boards are still around in the shape of federated ActivityPub instances.

It makes a lot more sense than hosting an isolated island of PunBB or vBulletin.

I just hope more communities host their own small localized ActivityPub instance, using AP relays to create a vibrant fediverse.
a 1% increase in sales and most people not caring are not definitely incompatible viewpoints.

That said I am definitely one of the people for whom it does matter.
The push mechanism, for one.

IMAP has one (two actually, IDLE and NOTIFY) but they are not really adapted to the way we use email today (mobile and browser-based apps).
Everything open pretty well, though there are limits on how many people can be in restaurants, pubs etc. and social distancing etc is still going on. There's only one state that has any local transmission. Employments pretty bad, unemployments 7%, but its actually higher because a lot of companies are keeping employees because their wage is being subsidised by the government, if you include these then it could be 30% or more. Government benefits are enough to keep everyone eating and at home though, so its pretty good compared to everyone else. The problem they're trying to address now is getting the economy going again.

Edit: most exciting - footballs starting again - with reduced crowds though :-)
Apple literally shutting down NFC for everyone in the world except for their own payment method is what I would call the 180 degree opposite of 'That is competition'. That's abuse, and it is more and more clear every day, both in Google, Apple as well as other such as Amazon that it's really not fair for the owners of the platforms to also compete with their customers on their own platforms.
Proportionally to the revenue, the cost of running a supermarket is much higher than running the App Store.

Having stock costs money, you have to decide what to stock and take a loss if you can't sell it, nothing is automated so you need more staff...

It's really apple to oranges.
What they're saying is, the studies could have continued uninterrupted anyway. It doesn't actually matter what Trump thinks or says, he doesn't control individual studies.

On the other hand, people who hate Trump like the editor of the Lancet actually did manage to interrupt studies. After publishing the now retracted "HCQ is dangerous" paper, lots of studies were suspended worldwide.
These are people who are high in Openness, a personality trait. They are in love with new things. It does not matter if it is good or not, as long as it is new. They lose interest quickly and move on to the next new thing.
What are alternatives to Google Analytics for mobile? We'd just like to collect basic events (eg. this feature has been used), number of active users, OS usage… nothing fancy.
The leaders elected by the citizens or a different way of governance of other sovereign countries have the right to decide what is best for their citizens. American companies should not try to impose their moral values on others. Many eastern cultures do not value privacy as much as you guys do, and it's fine.
As a frame of reference we were quoted $160,000 USD to resurface two miles worth of residential streets, including ground work like changing drainage pipes and upgrading drains etc.

This is in Sweden so YMMV, but we were quoted $80K per mile and these people got told $1.5 million for just over a quarter mile?
While we're at it, there should be an officially supported API for app stores so you don't have to root your phone and install privilege extensions just to get the same convenience with F-Droid as with the Play Store.
Anyone have a clue how there are so many white F150s? All looking identical yet there must be over a hundred. Is there a local cartel buying a new truck every time they get busted?
> "client should only be able to query objects the user account has access to"

> "client should only be able to perform certain kinds of transactions and mutations"

The solution to these is equal for server rendered HTML containing {data} or an API just getting {data} in raw form - the request contains an access token which identifies and authorises the user - same goes for mutations on {data}.

The answer to the question 'how do you know who the user is when they request a server rendered page containing some sensitive data?' is literally the copy/paste solution to how to do authentication on your API - as in, it's basically the same code that must be implemented on the backend in either case :-)

The point is it's the same data and mutations, just a different interface over them. There is no security tradeoff of using one over the other.
Fork+RPi
> Writing real multithreaded code without a GIL is hard.

A GIL doesn't help developers. It only keeps the internal state of the VM consistent. You still need to to use locks, thread safe collections etc. That's one major reason why some people feel that OS threads + GIL is a poor trade-off.

https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby#thread-s...
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> those who can write threadsafe code and those who can't

This, abstracted, those who can write distributed software and those who can't yet.

Dealing with shared resources is similar to dealing with shared memory if you zoom out a bit.

We need more people to move from the latter group to the former, for reasons. The more people aware of distributed software and its challenges, the better.
What could be the use cases?
Also visually it seems so simple, like for the Mish activation function https://github.com/digantamisra98/Mish/blob/master/README.md

It seems to be advanced maths but I wonder why the designer (he already know in advance the desired form of the function in order to give him a desirable property (in both cases being more smoothed / continuous / centered)) does not draw graphically the desired function and let a software solve, find automatically the best approximation of the function?

EDIT: well it seems to be a general function approximator so my point doesn't apply (but still apply for the new activation functions in machine learning)
A little ELI5 for those who haven't had Laplace transforms at school, from someone who only had a Laplace 101 course, so for what's it worth: Laplace transforms allow you to convert differential equations into easier equations, and back: the differentials and integrals become multiplications and divisions. So you can take a differential equation, transform it into the Laplace domain, manipulate it, and convert it back. And that's cool because differential equations tend to appear everywhere, for instance to model springs, electrical circuits with caps and coils, the surface of a soap bubble in a metal rod, etc. A sibling is the z-transform, which is like the digital version. This one is used for instance to design digital audio filters. I'm sure some math wizards here can elaborate and correct me.
We don't have twenty years.

It's inhuman and stupid to put people in prison for selling drugs. In the meantime the US is going to crumble under policies like this, while gangs will become increasingly powerful.