skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any good text book where this is included? Seems like something very interesting to read about formally.
Apple demands that taxes are paid and laws are adhered to in their kingdom of apps. Meanwhile, they are tax evaders themselves.
Maybe the pandemic finally offers enough motivation for EU and US to make a strong decision about this. The (smart)phone market, for many people the only computing device they own, is utterly dominated by 2 monopolies under Apple and Google.

The CEOs should get a medal and all the honours for providing society this good platforms then promptly forced to allow separate AppStores on equal footing.
haha - I love the use of the word brutal here! It is a brutal leap.

I wanted to give the ideas in the simplest way with friendly emojis and then go onto the more complex derivation with the cost function etc. I haven't explained the idea of the cost function enough. I think your idea for stating with the cost function (as a concept - not a formula) and absolute error may have been nicer to be fair. I can see a nice d3 visual where you can slide the gradient and see the total error change!

I could always add the line of best fit approach and more intuition for the cost function after I introduce training data (and before the brutal leap)?
I think the psychology of spending actual cash, in a bank account, that could theoretically be spent on anything, is completely different from using debt to fund projects.

A lot of my views come from operating perhaps the lowest level of "government" possible: a large HOA. Our CC&Rs prohibit entering into any contract (including debt) lasting more than a year. It works for us because the entire place is run by volunteers, many of them nonspecialists, who could do a lot of damage getting us into, say, a 10-year contract with Comcast that was too expensive, not negotiated well, etc.

I think we expect our politicians to be superheroes. This might be borderline reasonable for large, well-funded federal agencies like the Federal Reserve, BLS, BEA, etc who can attract large numbers of truly great people, and pay them well. It's not reasonable to expect someone like Tim Geithner or Ben Bernake (a Princeton economics PhD) to run the finances of a small city or HOA. You're going to get part-time volunteers who know how to balance their checkbooks. Expecting these people to be perfectly rational decision-makers without formal accounting training, let alone knowing how to think carefully about how to analyze NPV, cashflows, and long-term liabilities, in the face of all kinds of local small-ball politics (e.g. trying to help their friend win a contract, or a personal vendetta against someone's project) is laughably far from realistic.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It strikes me as the highest form of chauvinism to assume your own society has discovered the One True Ethics.

Still, I think some conception of Western Human Rights should be universalized (like slavery is always bad, for example) but a lot of thought should go into what values are important enough to always impose on others.
You'd be still trusting the compiler. However many layers of checks you do, there's always something you need to trust.
Australia under cyberattacks from state actor
"We didn't get our cut" should only apply if they add value.

What value does the App Store provide Hey?
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Why people miss the simple solution, off with the ads on with micro-payments. You like the content, pay for it.
Congratulations on the launch! I've been excitedly waiting for the public release since hearing about HASH on Joel's blog a few months ago. I've been playing with some models over the past few hours and I have a few questions / comments.

First, would it be possible to perform sensitivity analysis on parameters of the model? For example, with the city infection model, run a number of simulations in parallel with different infection rate values, and see how it affects the model output. Relatedly, I think it would be useful to specify a probability distribution over a parameter rather than setting a fixed value. The state space of the model would become exponential in the number of parameters which can vary, so I understand if it's infeasible, at least in the public version.

The real-time spatial and plot views are great. I would like to try some network based simulations. Any plans to add visualizations for these?
> “As tempting as it is to use the tools available to us to change the outcome, I am confident we must never do that or we will become that which we fear.”

> “If we limit what information people have access to and what they can say then we have no democracy at all,” Bosworth wrote.

You manipulate the information people have access to every day as a core feature of your business! You started using those tools and became a curator of what information people receive many years ago when you decided to use your propriety, hidden algorithm to filter and order what people see. If you actually believe in taking an idealistic "maximum free speech" approach, you would return to a simple chronological ordering.

~sigh~

I usually don't like wasting energy worrying about past decisions. Investing time and energy on regrets and blame is usually a waste of resources. However... the one thing in my past that I really do regret is introducing this asshole to computers and teaching him to program. Bosworth! Instead of undermining democracy and creating a surveillance capitalist dystopia, could we go back to writing silly graphics hacks in QBasic?
No? The argument for decades from non-sensationalist sources has mostly been that there are physical limitations that current methods can't bypass around the 1nm scale, and that getting successively closer to that size requires exponential increases in investment with corresponding decreases in yield. And this is pretty much exactly what's been happening.
I wish I could downvote you. What apple is doing is much worse than microsoft ever did, and they deserve to get a big antitrust lawsuit against them.

Just because their own rules say 'everybody owes us money' doesn't mean that it's legal.
Because of Western Rome and Catholicism, I think
Eastern Europe and Russia weren't part of the West. Aren't they?
It seems like we soon see movement on this issue given the EU antitrust and other social unrest. People are tired of things being not only unfair but not even remotely reasonable. It is laughable that Apple Music on Android doesn't use the built in IAP but forces you to pay via Apple. This will come back to haunt them. It doesn't matter that the ToS don't forbid this but in civil suits, it doesn't give them a leg to stand on. They are doing the exact thing they argue would prevent them from making any revenue if they changed their policy. If Apple was smart they would lower their percentage and move on. Better to pick the number than have it forced on you.
Maybe they should follow what Netflix is doing, since they don't have in-app purchases in iOS which is why they don't allow registrations at all and force you to sign up on the web.

Not sure about Netflix's Android app though, but Google has sort of done this to Epic Games but only allowing logins and no registrations + card checks might bypass the Apple 30% tax.
Because the left actually looks at the numbers. Immigrants tend to lose the nasty part of their religions really quickly.
I don't think presidents or any other dignitaries should get preferential treatment regarding behavior on a social network any more than their behavior would be excused in a social situation without their title. As long as it's called a social network, I don't think title or position should ever come into effect.

It's also the case in this particular example the he is only the president of the US, not the president of the world. If a service has community rules that are world-wide in scope, then I would expect that at least outside the US, the rules are equally applied to all content published there.

He could be allowed to use it on the same term as anyone else. I don't know, but maybe to people in Europe it is especially disturbing to people in that he's been given almost free reign. In some ways, an omen of the darkest possible future.

The undeniable subtext of on one hand getting content removed for posting legitimate journalistic photos, and on the other hand allowing Trump to post hate speach that would be straight up illegal in several EU countries is truly disturbing.

Europe was where fascism got its face, we fear it for a reason, and Trump unfortunately helps actual fascist advance their influence here. He idolizes the instigator of the war, a war that across almost all of Europe countries had to sacrifice a sizeable fraction of their population to try to stop, and without US we might not have.

So, yes. When someone clearly has an agenda to cause suffering, conflict; and who revels in the the suffering of others, to give them a platform is immoral. There are no two ways about it.

I and many in this part of the world would very much prefer if anyone who in any way supports or embolden fascists did not have any venue at all to make their voice heard, moreso when they command what is undoubtedly the greatest single military power on the planet.

What Trump says would still be in the news of course, and we would be aware, but his outburst would no longer be algorithmically targeted at those who who have shown to engage with it.

Some speech might actually not be worth risking another 70 million lives or more on, president of the US or not. It's not at all the only problem that needs solving, but it's one that can be solved.
My guess is that an independent Tibet would have developed at about the same pace as neighboring Bhutan, which abolished slavery in 1958 and turned into a constitutional monarchy in 2005.

There are still human rights issues in Bhutan, but it's a far cry from where they were 70 years ago.
But 50% of the smarphone market users might want to install software on they own property which Apple has clearly shown to be quite possible, if only Apple wouldn't stand in the way as the sole gatekeeper.

It might not be specifically anti-trust violation, but if Ford behaved the same as Apple there would be 1-2 cars to pick from world wide!
Hahahaha love this!
Access to 20 billion unjailbroken iPhones
Well if you plan on mirroring access via discord, then github's better as I can support you =)...

If you are thinking of making patron only content then that's better.

Hence why I was asking ;)...
Distribution. Access to iOS devices.
If the app was like $1 or $2 on the app store just to avoid this headache, I would pay it.
Building a remote-controlled toy car with Arduino and iOS
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I'm probably in the minority with this view, but I do think that Apple's response makes 100% sense and is fair and reasonable.

- I don't like how everyone claims they want a 30% cut. That is factually not quite true. It is 30% for non subs, which I think is fair. If I want to sell a product on a specific distribution channel then the cut should represent the possible reach and sales opportunity. In the case of subs it's only 15%. This is quite different than 30%. 30% is only for the first 12 months and for a sub which is paid annually this is nothing. Given that the first 12 months are very crucial in gaining critical mass I think 30% is fair and later it is really only 15%.

- I have huge respect for DHH, but he criticises that Apple has published their response to journalists, which is a bit rich given that he started this "dog fight" in the public

- The apps to which DHH compares Hey with are very different in nature and all the mail apps he constantly mentions are also different in nature. They all implement the suggestions which Apple has suggested in their response, so it's really Hey who wants to be treated with different rules because DHH thinks his online status can bully Apple into giving in? Not sure if that is right

- Also I think it is possible to do both. You can disagree with the rules and fight them in a civil way in court, whilst also temporarily comply with the rules like everyone else to get your app public. This approach of not wanting to play by the rules, put them on fire and still publish an app whilst everything is burning seems like a weird strategy to me. Slightly unnecessarily aggressive in tone.
Hey. I'm on the development team at hash.ai. I'm going to be looking into this today, and will hopefully make some progress soon!

I'll certainly look into the plots issue. If you think of anything else worth mentioning about Firefox, it would be very helpful if you could email me at nh@hash.ai with details! If you feel comfortable providing it, a list of extensions you're using would go a long way to helping diagnose the issues you're encountering.
good one. That's a graphical alternative to https://shadowban.eu/
The references to skin color are usually implicit (especially after his presidential term started), but they are always there.

I can understand how a non-American might miss Trump's racist phrases, but he's pandering to a white supremacist base who are sure to see them.

I don't have a specific link to reference, but the tactic he's using is often referred to as a "dog whistle".
A distribution platform that reaches millions of users.
Apple is about 20% of the market, not 50%.

This isn't anti-trust.
It's a different matter whether 30% is a valid cut for Apple to make on Hey In App subscriptions. But $2,400 (8*$300/year?) for the delivery and update, notifications and Siri integration etc to millions of apps/devices sounds a pretty good deal.
I've been thinking a lot about this Nietzsche quote lately:

> You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

This has made me question not a lack of internal motivation, but an abundance of external motivation. i.e. examining what ways I am motivated by how others will perceive me.

I am trying to appreciate the "eating straight from the packet" state of mind.
A competing app store, if allowed, would do equally well
> Chinese workers earn way less

Relative to cost of living and their median/top level income?
Sounds biased. Very pro-China article. Everything was horrible and then saviors occupants came and live got better.
Reminds me of all other occupations throughout the history as well as some recent ones. My country was occupied by Soviet Union in the past. Overall I prefer when my country is independent.
Yikes, I'd rather stair in the eyes of Darth Maul on a killing rampage
> If Apple was smart they would lower their percentage and move on

Smart and Apple on the same phrase has becoming less common lately. The anti-trust action seems to not be dissuading them from their actions.
When it's "us" that's on the catch-up side of this equation we call this "democratisation" and we're all in favour of it.
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Unfortunately none of the examples contain malloc, whilst I'm curious as to whether the pattern matching works with heap allocated object. The binary tree example only has statically defined tree, which blows up into lots of code in assembly.
I think this will happen, yes, but mass migrations and refugee crises aren't usually a stabilizing force on international relations
You have to raise the price by 43%: 1.43 * 0.7 = 1.00
Finally a great breakdown of the issue and a fair look into what both sides, namely Apple, are trying to do here.

> That, Apple said, is not what Hey is. Hey is a consumer app, paid for by users. And Apple takes issue with the idea that when one of those prospective users downloads the app, there's nothing they can do with it — they can't sign up, they can't pay, they have to go somewhere else before they can use the app. Apple doesn't like apps like that, at least when it feels they should be more accessible to their intended audience.
Adding support for U2F FIDO keys for outlook accounts using all browsers
Bell didn't owe rival companies use of their phone lines, either... Until the 1974 antitrust lawsuit [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
Isn't that a little like comcast charging websites for access to their customers?

What if I bought an iphone, I am ONLY allowed to install apple apps on it, and I want the basecamp app?
Apple’s secretive AR and VR Headset plans altered by internal differences
So, let's look at the counterclaim - that Facebook is obliged to publish whatever the President wants, regardless of the content? What are the boundaries of this, then?

Does it extend to foreign leaders? Is Facebook obliged to publish everything Xi says as well?

How far down the government does it extend? Cabinet members? Senators? Judges? Military?

Does it extend to other content that would be banned? Is Facebook morally or legally obliged to publish porn if it's from the Presidential account? Other objectionable images, violence, gore, goatse?

Does it extend to content that's false and harmful to Facebook itself? If Trump posts a fake FB stock price graph with "look at these LOOSERS", is FB legally or morally obliged to host that regardless of how many billions in shareholder value it costs them? Is CNN obliged to show Trump's fake CNN chyron? Is Twitter?

How circumlocutious does a death threat have to be for FB to still be legally or morally obliged to host it? What about "Someone should take care of this Zuckerberg guy" over a picture of a bullet?
Basecamp obviously knew this would go down like this.

The cynic in me thinks this controversy was planned from the beginning as a PR / marketing exercise.
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Is that a bad thing? If I’m using an alternative to a the App Store, I definitely don’t then want an app to be able to run arbitrary code from a server.

But we have an alternate universe where users can install outside of the official store yet hardly anyone takes advantage of it.
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> I don’t understand why members of a dev team back in the day would’ve been more capable of being full-stack than today...

Because the stack in the old days was smaller and level of quality was far lower. In the '90s there was no css and javascript, nor did anyone care for accesability, multiple languages, security or interactive features. In the old days we had real documents with links and simple structure, not apps and mature frameworks. It was something on the level you get today with simple markup like markdown or org-mode.
Bitcoin Skeptics Are Like Climate Change Skeptics
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you should put more time in understanding how the basics of economics and works to understand why monopolies or duopolies are bad for societies. I'm sure there are some great online lectures to be found on economics 101.
There are two kind of painting. You can paint a wall/a building, or you can paint Mona Lisa.

This is the same for programming. Each dev have their own taste in term of code style and code formatting preferences. I was an early employee in a startup, and at some point I was able to tell who wrote a chunk of code just from the code style, it was fun :) but as company grown, and team got bigger, it got more "professional", now we have prettier which erases a big part of our code personality. If you believe like me that coders are artists you might find that a bit sad, but the truth is that most Enterprise software building is wall painting, and art doesn't have its place there. That doesn't prevent us from painting Mona Lisa at home though :)
> Found one stall in a giant market selling weed? Ban all sellers.

No one is suggesting this. It’s more like if you find one stall selling weed and then five hundred other stalls selling various illegal things, and then you go to the market manager and tell them and they lazily remove one or two vendors but don’t or any actual resources to work to root out the problem.
"What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says."

Considering when the ERE "fell", the plague did a pretty poor job of hastening it's collapse, no?
This is amazing! Fantastic work! Can we please please please get a VR option? Pretty please?
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I personally prefer Telegram. It's voice call quality (as well as everything else it offers) feels perfect (your mileage may vary - obviously this depends on your location, your ISP etc) and the bandwidth consumption is shockingly humble. It can also let you send voice messages and video messages easily. Video calling is not there, however - it's a feature planned to be shipped later this year.
True. Unfortunately they have plenty of money, which has allowed the influence of this sect to grow in other parts of the world as well.
> Censorship on huge public platforms should not be allowed.

Goatse for everyone!
The same Ashoka continued to slaughter en masse people who seemed to disagree with him, even after his conversion to Buddhism and taking up ahimsa (nonviolence) as a governing principle [1]. Except after his conversion he restricted the genocide to non-Buddhists. Though this may have been an improvement from before his conversion to Buddhism when he executed or enslaved the entire population of Kalinga [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokavadana

> Ashokavadana mentions two incidents of Ashoka turning towards violence after adopting Buddhism. In one instance, a non-Buddhist in Pundravardhana drew a picture showing the Buddha bowing at the feet of Nirgrantha Jnatiputra (identified with Mahavira, the founder of Jainism). On complaint from a Buddhist devotee, Ashoka issued an order to arrest him, and subsequently, another order to kill all the Ajivikas in Pundravardhana. Around 18,000 followers of the Ajivika sect were executed as a result of this order.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_War
pretty much any metric you could come up with to "measure" civilisation -- literacy, urbanisation, economic output, monetary economy -- went to historic lows.

slightly orthogonal to this, but the original motivation behind the 'dark ages' label was that for large parts of europe there are very few written records for the 5-7th centuries. e.g., we know practically nothing what happened in 5th century england because the only written source -- gildas -- is mostly concerned with pontificating about sinful behaviour in artful ways. even some actual people he mentions in passing get biblically coded nicknames so we have to make wild guesses who's he referring to. and that's our only source for pretty much a century.
I once used Jitsi (the browser-based version) and my CPU usage went above the roof (even after I've disabled HD). It felt like my MacBook Air was going to blow up. Obviously not a battery-friendly app. I still feel like I'm going to use it again when I need a video conference - just for sake of using self-hosted free software.
Yes, one way of designing an IIR filter is to design the continuous-time version and convert it to discrete. There are other (usually better) ways, but if you've already got a good understanding of continuous-time filter behaviour, it's a usable on-ramp.
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They already charge an absurd amount for the privilege. $100/year just to have access to the store. Google only charges $25 once. So Apple is already infinitely more expensive with their reoccurring cost.
These aren’t Apple’s rules–they’re ours. It’s the parameters of a free marketplace and flows from the idea of legal ownership of property. Apple has a minority share of the smartphone market, so antitrust does not apply. Antitrust a specific remedy to prevent monopolistic abuses.

If I build a high end hotel and the fee is $10,000 a night to stay there, you can’t apply to the Supreme Court to have your bill reduced. It’s my hotel and I can set the price to whatever I damn well please because it’s a free market.