skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Section 230 is an essential legal pillar for online speech. And when powerful people don’t like that speech, or the platforms that host it, the provision becomes a scapegoat for just about every tech-related problem.

Does anyone actually believe this is an authoritarian attempt to squash speech that is "speaking truth to power"?

This is the result of years of work to remove any dissenting voice from the generally Left-leaning sites of the Internet -- Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. First they started disabling comment sections, calling all opposition "trolls". Then they tried to deplatform, go after advertisers, etc. Most recently, two sites were dropped from AdSense because they had unmoderated comment sections. Not only is Google saying what can live on it's platform, but also what can live on the sites of others.

But wait...they're a private company and have every right to remove people from their platform. Fine, then they lose all government protection from the results of their choice to decide what legal information people can and cannot see.
> In summary, our observations are as follows.
> Some servers are hosted by Amazon, as part of a CDN service.

FUD - This report is all about Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt and is every bit as dangerous as lying.

I find it difficult to believe that, even among the HackerNews crowd, this point registers near as important as having an easy to use, efficient way to do contact tracing for Covid-19.

Why does every attempt to make the world a better place have to be ripped apart and thrown in the dumpster fire?
While I am radically milquetoast on engineering things, to me it doesn't seem nearly as impossible as mining the deep, deep oceans of Earth. Similar constraints, similar win/fail procedure. If we really wanted to drill into Europa, we'd have it up and running in a manner of years, imho.

Getting there, of course, is the other big challenge, but honestly .. a fleet of Starship's, maybe 100 or so .. sent to Europa with enough guts to build a base .. I could see it happening in 20 - 30 years, maybe .. if not sooner.
A well-trained sniper that you can trust to cover a crowd needs a lot of training and time and money.

A drone is $30k
Apple VR Headset Slated for 2022 After Jonny Ive Killed Wireless Console
Actually reaching Europa’s ocean and returning data is extremely difficult. At the equator temperatures of −160 °C; −260 °F keep the 6–19 mile thick ice roughly has hard as granite.
Great.
Presumably microsoft will also be opening up their xbox to run whatever software I like without going through them too then?
I think a better way is to say that 500 millimort + 500 millimort = 1000 millimort like normallly. And then say that you can't add millimorts of successive events to get the millimorts of the sequence.
Currently, we offer coaching in English and Portuguese -- we'd love to add more in the future though! What language would your mom prefer?
Privacy question: is this typical wording? "By giving us this information, you agree to it being collected, used, disclosed, transferred to the USA and stored by us."

Does "USA" here mean the geographical USA, the legal jurisdiction, citizens of the USA or the government of the USA?
Yes, I think it's still a stretch. Something along the lines of the guns don't kill people, people kill people argument.

I'm not saying that Amazon wasn't at fault here, but if you just read the headline and looked at the picture you might think Amazon was the one selling the counterfeit pills.
Yeah, but not when you dictate the same sentence.

My main complaint is that they insist that they own "app store" when the courts already told them that they don't.
Honestly I am not sure legal immunity for network platforms is actually a good thing. Those platforms are very much like traditional publishers in that they greatly amplify and spread the content posted on their network. Amplification* without accountability is very different than freedom of speech.

* if you want to quibble with “amplification,” I would more specifically say that _asynchronous_ and/or _targeted_ distribution is the key characteristic that makes it logical for these platforms to be held to the same standards as traditional publishers in my opinion.
Related, humans have a bunch of neotenous features. There is even a Wikipedia article on it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny_in_humans
What was the earliest prior art resembling the Apple App Store? (Eg curation, 3rd party publishing with royalty cuts, one-click install.)

Was it Steam? Which first launched in 2003?

Did Apple debut objectively novel behavior that made the App Store a thing? Perhaps the install flow, or maybe the developer submission flow? (Which was admittedly awful for a number of years)
> your fellow neighbors

But that phrase wasn't referring to fellow neighbors. It was referring to looters.

I would absoltely want people who were threatening me with robbery and violence to be threatened with violence back, yes. That's the function of police in any modern society.
I don't think it isn't challenging. I think it's definitely possible; just expensive. And I think it's actually cheaper than a lot might think: the biggest expense until now has been getting there. But with SpaceX and reusable rockets that looks to be a helluva lot cheaper. It's still challenging on a technical level but tractable to the higher ends of science budgets, or even middle ends of, say, oil and mining budgets.
And it's entirely our fault, as I said in my first comment. Had we collectively refused to buy locked down crap, they (or their competition) would bend over backwards to open it all up.
Congrats James! This would indeed make a great last-minute father’s Day gift. Good timing on the launch!
Curious - did the projection say what’s the cause of the decline after the peak?
Certainly not. Of course, people who abuse drugs don't deserve to die, but there is some risk you have to assume.

The people actually manufacturing the fake drugs have a lot more liability than the sale of pill presses, which have legitimate uses.

> She didn’t realize her father had slipped the counterfeit pills into his prescription bottle of Percocet at home and, distraught with grief, she had taken what she thought was a safe medication to help her relax.

This whole family shares each others pills?! W-T-F!
By default, Telegram does store all your messages on their server, whose encryption cannot be trusted.

By default, WhatsApp uploads all your messages to Google Cloud in clear.
Pwned Passwords uses a k-anonymity scheme so that your password is never actually sent to the server [0]. You can just call the API directly [1] so that you don’t have to trust haveibeenpwned.com’s JavaScript with your password.

[0]: https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

[1]: https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#PwnedPasswords
> the more you remove stuff you don't like, the more accountable you should be for whatever stuff you continue to host

It seems to me that this just creates a perverse incentive to never moderate anything. How would that be an improvement? At a minimum, you’d end up with a space overrun by spammers.
If this is really what went down, it's highly disappointing, and potentially a market-losing choice akin to Microsoft chopping off the internal processing for the original Kinect (which left it far too under-powered to perform its core competencies). VR is already computationally-intensive; adding in the features necessary for AR UX and still trying to achieve a compelling experience on, essentially, mobile hardware is a fool's game (ask anyone who has been underwhelmed by Magic Leap and, again, Microsoft's offerings). From a performance perspective, perhaps the latency of using an wireless connection to a hub was concerning, but if it wasn't, that would have been the only way to achieve the kind of exceptional performance expected of a market-defining product launch of an Apple product. They really shot themselves in the foot on this one, for a guy who was about to jump ship anyway.

>For Ive, who left last year after almost three decades at the company, a more realistic experience was potentially problematic: He didn’t want Apple promoting technology that would take people out of the real world.

And, on a philosophical level, that's not his decision to make. People build artificial worlds to suit or make up for their imperfections; that's just who we are as a species. I notice that those who are successful in the real-life social or corporate world are often horrified at the prospect of those not being central to the average person's experience, but the truth is that they're just as manufactured and distracting from "reality" as anything else. What is reality? I would say, "The base layers of Maslow's hierarchy," with everything above being artifice. Apple's contemporaries have shown that one doesn't need a false 3D overlay of their apartment to be swayed by the unreal; all you need is a willing mind and a text editor/reader. The problem is therefore orthogonal to the medium, and instead a matter of mental self-regulation of the near-limitless bounds of our imaginations. Let's get that figured out and stop trying to hold technology back.
This does look like a clear misinterpretation/misuse of statistics, and a blemish on the otherwise fine article.

Suppose we have a perfectly reliable test for tuberculosis, but we foul it into having an equal false positive or negative rate as follows: we perform the perfect test, the flip a fair coin, and if it is "heads" we invert the test's outcome.

Then if we apply the test to a population in which the incidence of tuberculosis is low (which is actually the case), most of the false results will be false positive.

In other words, a high false positive rate in a screening test relative to a low false negative rate does not prove that the test is biased toward false positive identification.

Consider that if nobody at all has tuberculosis, the only kind of false result possible is a false positive.
Seems more likely that those who run financial services are motivated primarily by money, and that all such institutions are corrupt to the core because they're always prepared to break regulations/laws/ethics of there is sufficient monetary gain. All the big name financial companies have recent irregularities AFAICT.
birdNET and Merlin are some of the most used apps on my phone, amazing how well the birdNET would identify a bird even with background traffic noise.

If it wasn't for that app I would have never realized I was on an actual snipe hunt.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wilsons_Snipe/overview

The 'winnowing' sound they make was driving us nuts trying to identify the bird.
Why do Apple haters insist on lying? Of course it capitalizes it.
I think the answer is you can’t, and the implication is maybe those platforms don’t actually need to exist.
Sure, economic equality will lead to more direct consumption than inequality, all else equal. That said, I'd rather have equality plus appropriate Pigouvian taxation than have to rely on inequality to do the environmental rationing for us.

A more equal society would probably have a greater chance of enacting Pigouvian taxes anyway because political power and economic power would be less intertwined.
looks like there's a password on the plugin it uses (it's optional though, and it resommends it specifically when putting the API online, which is probably slightly more secure)
My mom is one of the first members of the program; it helps her a lot already!
I largely agree at this point in the proposed capabilities. As you say these are just hand grenades that fly in cool looking formations. Independently guided aerial buck shot.

But the game changer is when these cheap independent systems can communicate and coordinate an intercept task against SOTA weapons systems - namely jets and nuclear subs.

As we know from birdstrikes, just a collision at the speed jets are moving at will probably neutralize it. To do this, the swarm will create several layers of buckshot that the jet can't avoid every one of them. If the jet is able to evade this first cloud, that cloud will now have very accurate targeting data to relay on to the next cloud.

And there will no longer be five billion dollar, 100-person manned subs to intercept other subs, all we'll need is an omni-present net of autonomous buoys that can "collapse-in" on any detected threat.
I did refuse at first, and tried Android and Windows and whatnot. And I wasted too much of my time trying to figure it out. At the end of the day, I need to spend more of my time living life and less troubleshooting.

Unfortunately, I don't know if a non lock down system is possible. The incentives for bad actors and the attack surface is so huge, I wonder what can be done.
Was already posted in 2019 (251 points), but afaict the original study wasn't linked back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20209569
Assuming you only rely on paid media, yes, you'd need to pay for visibility (arguably through one or more of the 3 main players you've mentioned), or invest in other forms of earned and owned media.

But paid media is a small fraction of the marketing mix when it comes to sell and distribute a product - doesn't matter if it's software or a physical product.

Being unreasonable or not should be up to anyone of evaluates the distribution/sale/communication channel. But I'd limit this fee to be for the "access" to the only distribution channel - because you don't have a guarantee of clicks/impressions/downloads or any media KPI for that fee.

The CPC of a paid keyword is a subset of many subsets of media alone.
This is amazing. I'm going to show this to my tuner who also does restorations, but I know that he's going to shake his head that anyone would do this much work on that piano.

What did you do with the G3? Do you now have two baby grands?
> In contrast, we have Epic Games who, besides adding nothing to the market besides a bunch of free games

You shouldn't talk about things you don't know about...

- Millions in grants for developers

- Unlimited free backend services for game developers, the same the power one of the most successful games in recent history (and the first serious offer for this caliber of service outside of Steam despite AAA publishers having stores for years)

- Millions invested in arguably one of the most technologically advanced game engines freely available

- Thousands of dollars in free content to help developers kickstart their projects

- Finally moving the needle for developer revenue splits after years of stagnation

- No built-in DRM (Games can still optionally include their own DRM, but there's no Steamworks-style DRM options)

- Built a publishing house with a blanket deal for studios which is very competitive, (50/50 split of all profit)

- _Retroactively_ waived fees for any game that made under 1 million dollars running on Unreal.

Say you didn't care about anything Epic did besides release a few free games, they did plenty more than that

Can't reply to your comment directly but for a reply...

How is massively supporting the game industry and providing a real competitor in a the market not doing anything for the end-user?

You realize the games the end-user plays benefit from literally every single thing I mentioned right?
> Now as for what that was... that's the real mystery as far as I'm concerned. A large number of America's political class of both parties believed invading Iraq was important enough to burn massive amounts of money, trust, and reputation. Why?

* 9/11 and the shock/bloodlust that stemmed from it
* Powerful lobby groups, like the military-industrial complex and oil companies
* the Saudis (local rivals, not fans of Saddam, and old friends of the Bush family)
* the Israelis (also local rivals, not fans of Saddam, and capable exerting heavy influence on the W Bush administration)
* Probably the Iranians (who bankrolled Ahmed Chalabi and his INC group, also not fans of Saddam)

None of this should be new or surprising -- the interests of most/all of these groups were known at the time.
Those prices are almost an order of magnitude less than what we'd see in the US ( often due to upgrades etc. that accompany such projects ).

Right now there isn't much incentive for multiple contractors to setup and be efficient in a given town - heavy equipment is expensive to move, so the TAM of any given construction crew is likely limited to a 1 county radius. Based on the math in this thread it's unlikely that many towns need more than 1-2 crews, and the incentive is minimal for that crew to negotiate a fair price.

In the example where there is a public crew for most work the contractor always needs to underbid the public crew, and the city/town has influence on the costs of the public crew as there are no middle men and capex can be amortized over long periods. Most public projects in the US lack this "price ceiling".
It doesn’t matter if you think they’re doing something productive for China Apple or anyone else, and the idea that they could suddenly repurpose them to do “AI” is incredibly far fetched. My point is hundreds of thousands if not millions of workers would be suddenly unemployed in such a trade war which would be an economic catastrophe, there’d be unavoidable civil unrest.
To put it bluntly: This is very vague. If you want any kind of response, you might have a better chance if you state your question more clearly.
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If nobody at all has tuberculosis, then even a test heavily biased toward false negative will still produce nothing but false positives.

In that situation, only two kinds of test will avoid false positives: (1) a perfectly reliable test, or else (2) a broken tests that never reports a positive.
I have AWS certs and basic Python knowledge. I think I'd be better off just getting an hourly job in a different industry. All companies do is screw over salaried workers.

For example, to get promoted I would need to work a 9 hour day instead of 8 hours. I put in extra time when needed, like for elevations and stuff, but I'm talking about consistently working a minimum of 9 hours. That's a 12% increase in my minimum daily work time for only a 7% raise. How stupid do they think people are?
Our local Mexican grocery store sells them. I think they import them from Mexico and nobody noticed that they are illegal here in the US.
In most countries customs is a law enforcement agency (exercising the government’s policing power) not a regulatory agency (exercising the government’s policy-making power).
The discussion here suggests that a lot of developers are jumping right into the middle of data science from a machine learning perspective without a solid understanding of what I would call basic math. It's a lot easier to succeed and compete with a solid grasp of linear algebra, calculus and numerical methods. My personal experience is that curriculum takes a good couple years to really get your head around.

For my current project I had to really understand the closed-form solution for linear regression and even it looks straightforward on paper it really took a while to sink in.
That is an inflated statistics of people in the USSR killed by the tyrant of their own country. If anything it supports the point made above.
Just spitballing here, about an application of the Laplace transform. We have a product that allows the users to use machine learning in a semi-automatized way, without deeply understanding hyperparameter optimization, model testing, selection and evaluation and such.

There was some talk about supporting the prediction of time-series data. I have absolutely no knowledge of how time-series data should be pre-processed and what kind of algorithms are common or applicable in general. (I'm not in charge of the R&D of the data-science-y features) However, it seems like Laplace transform as a pre-processing step ticks a lot of the checkboxes. As a superset of Fourier, it supports periodic changes in time series, and being about exponentials, it also allows for growth (or decreasing) over time, allowing to transform a time series to data that is more applicable to classical ML algorithms.

Is Laplace transform actually used for such usecases?
I’d rather the sites themselves decide than the US government decide. You can always go to a different site. But once we have the government intervening and saying “this is what is acceptable speech online, this is what isn’t”, that’s a whole nother level of censorship I’d rather avoid.
Apple also has IP, R&D and Software / OS Development costs. And no one is forcing console makers to adopt the margins they do.
well 1 million is guaranteed death, so I would expect a likely-fatal event to be just under that.
> −160 °C; −260 °F .. ice

something something Couple 'o Raptor rockets bolted onto a methane-harvesting sled for fuel, let 'er rip ..

/there I fixed it.
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There is a good book for math notation that I like:

"Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists"

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Notation-Guide-Engineers...
The Microsoft store also lets you install free apps with out logging in (if you keep clicking out from the login prompts) so it's probably also harder to get reviews.
Really exciting to see the development of an open source conda server, getting locked into "Anaconda Enterprise" is a huge barrier to leveraging the environment at scale in a medium to large size organization.
> The same phrase was also said at least once before, by an obscure racist 70 years ago

I have to come clean: I haven't been completely intellectually honest in asking the question above. I have already known about it.

The point is, I have a problem with the way present-day american political life has a way with meanings of words. You guys seem to put so much importance on imaginary dog-whistels and connotations, and are willing to interpret the original phrases in such bizzare and far-fetched ways.

And if we continue to play this game, the only ones who win are the people that are willingly interpret anything in the most offensive and divisive way.
Absolutely not. That and the "rooftop sniper" idea are how you get Bloody Sunday. Firing into crowds is indiscriminate mass murder. As is detonating bomb drones in the crowd.
Rather, OP is probably already using one and don't see the point of migrating to yet another closed system.
The Glyph was simply a display with speakers. I agree that the form factor visually pleasing, and they weren't uncomfortable to wear (save for extended periods, where it was easier than even with VR sets to develop dry eyes), but adding in everything necessary to make them a true AR/VR headset with inside-out 6DoF tracking, let alone the SoaC, would have drastically changed its shape and size.
I agree... it's like a % rise in the DJI.

Why can't they just use dBuM where 60dBuM=Death?
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Trajectories on the way to/from the moon would require a lot of additional delta v to circularize at Geostationary. Or if you're in an orbit that looks like 550 km x 37600 km, when you're at apogee you need a lot of extra delta v spent in prograde thrust to raise your perigee to the same figure.
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Be prepared for the debt to follow you for a while.
Yes, and it replaced my flip phone. Lets see them try that again in 2020.
As far as the software ecosystem is concerned, it is compliant with SMTP, obviously. But if you are going to use an IMAP client, you could as well use any of the zillion email providers that support it, or set up your own mail server.

It's like operating systems. People who want to have it their very specific way use Linux. People who want it to just work out of the box use macOS (but not Catalina).
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Pot, kettle: The Azure Marketplace for b2b apps is also 20-30%. Worse, while most app stores pay out 30-60 days after use, Azure can hold on to your payments about 3-6mo. I am a fan of the concept, but this kind of stuff is entirely flexing and broken PM politics. Imagine if Intel did that to juice proceeds of all x86 users for a couple of years!