skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no reason why Apple would do that though: you’re a hosting outage on some shitty VPS box away from the download button not working when you click the button, and the URLs are then discoverable on the open internet for anyone to be able to download at will. Or an indie developer hosts on S3, the app becomes wildly successful, and the developer is unable to pay the AWS bill.

I don’t know why people expect Apple to be the kind of company that would behave in a way that is antithetical to itself and in many ways it’s own customers out of a puritanical devotion to ‘openness’. Most of these ‘Apple could’ changes would cripple the product.
Nah, it is a issue with units for me. Speaking primitively: % and ‰ look weirdly and add weirdly - they are easy to remember.

But when some unit looks like a meter or gram (especially using the micro- prefix here), it should behave accordingly.
totally mis-read this as "we can use nuclear weapons to lower carbon emissions"... teach me to scan instead of read!
Will do! I'll use GitHub issues if I run into anything. Fantastisch project ; )!
It's gonna depend on your threat model ultimately. Hard to imagine running on AWS if you don't trust them though.
Show HN: Jargon-free financial advice via text
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if Apple was in fact “violating anti-trust laws”, don’t you think that would have been a problem for 12 years?

Random HN users can’t declare that anti trust laws are being violated and make it a fact. If Apple is violating the law, so is every console maker.
Think about what a triangle would do under gravity.
They could already wipe out people they want to designate as "criminals" by busting into people's houses and shooting them in their sleep. The reason they don't (very often) is that, as we've seen in recent weeks, that's how you get riots. The current unrest resulted from only a handful of unjustified killings. Imagine what would happen if they started sending drones to kill people en masse?
True. I think the actual cause is definitely multi-faceted, and expect a big cause is education. Both quality of that received (eg state funding), and level attained.

Others have also mentioned other salient factors (psychology, etc)
That is an interesting limitation of micromorts in this context—-they’re kind of statistically focused on the individual.

I wonder if there’s some similar measure where we could basically treat everyone as slightly radioactive. Entering an enclosed space would reduce the maximum separation of everyone and increase the minimum possible exposure (and by consequence, everyone’s chance of death).

Since we’d then have a useful quantity to measure and track, we could then do accounting with our risk of death by COVID-19 (i.e. “I’m not going to the store today because I’m over my exposure limit for the week”)
i understand this is possibly intended as hyperbole.

yet

hating a probability or a unit of measure is like hating a cloud or a tree or a ray of the sun. it just is.

and this attachment
this rejection
of what is
engenders a senseless suffering.

one might respond, measures aren't real. but then, what's the use in hating what is unreal?

on the other hand,
the way we are drawn
to elegance and beauty
can be awakening
and motivating
in the quest of truth.
I'm not sure what you mean by "actual scientific articles," but I mean stuff that's generally published in economics, policy, psychology or other "social science" related journals.

I'm not commenting on which is "scientific" in a Popperian sense. I'm not sure any of these publications clear that bar.

Questions of scope and/or magnitude is one of the moving goalposts. Scope is implied to be very broad in most contexts, limited in more critical contexts. This theory only applies to preschools in this neighborhood.

The 2018 Nobel Laureate for Economics was about "Endogenous growth theory," a theory of how human capital, innovation, and knowledge contribute to economic growth. Is that a small scope?

The most influential social science book of the last few years was "Capital in the 21st century" which is a theory of income and wealth gaps. Is that small in scope?

Ultimately, a theory that can't be generalized iss not really a theory, in a scientific sense. It's punditry.
> electronics is to electricity what software engineering is to CS

I would respectfully disagree with this assertion.

I'm pretty sure my colleagues who are designing novel FinFET transistors for low noise applications are "doing electronics", and I'm also pretty certain that they're considering the underlying semi-conductor physics in some pretty serious depth; they're definitely not trying to work with "as little depth as [they] can get away with".

Electronics as a discipline encompasses people working at many levels of abstraction, including those working at a very low level. I think transistor designers would be very amused (or perhaps offended?) if you were to claim that they weren't doing "proper electronics" because they're actually thinking about things in depth in a very analytic way.
Interesting. So it's a play to increase adoption / apps for their store. If successful though, do they just raise their cut back up?
I think they only show reviews from people in your region. I can see 325 reviews on Spotify, 15k reviews on Minecraft.

The author of krita mentioned in this thread that their revenue is 50/50 steam and windows store, so it can't be that bad.
they didn't ask for 50% or 80%, so instead of being thankful like some fanbois you are being sarcastic /s
You should be able to compile and run app that is truly open source if you have right tools and skills.
OP is talking about “Firefox Premium.” You would be paying for the software and services. Firefox is the browser.
Typing “Group By”, Revisited
Yeah, I get the impression this is article is more to show off how smart the writer is, rather than about effective instruction. If you can actually read the article, you have no need for the content because you've probably encountered gradient descent already in your maths training (or could figure it out).

Also, there's no concrete examples of this algorithm in place for students to go through and built intuition and a working understanding. Even the most dense math text books I've read have problems for the reader to work through.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=applications+laplace+transf...
I'd assume your typical gaming studio needs to sell a LOT more copies to break even than most shops producing iPhone apps.

Also, a smartphone is an essential hardware for modern living. A gaming console... Not really.
Quick background. Hypothes.is was founded by Dan Whaley:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwhaley

Dan built and sold an Internet travel app in the 90s, and then became involved in climate work. He's been committed to it for many years.

Hypothes.is was created in order to address the problem of disinformation on the Internet, especially related to climate change; e.g. the Wall Street Journal publishes an Op-Ed from Charles Koch denying that human activity is contributing to global warming, and an annotation channel run by climate scientists can dissect it point by point.

I respect and admire that vision, and I think it's trying to get to one of the root causes of climate change denialism.

(Obviously, Hypothes.is has many other great uses!)
Freedom of Speech: A Right for Everybody, or Only for Like-Minded People?
That’s exactly what this guy is doing with Iris. It’s early days but definitely worth checking out.

https://www.hackernoon.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-internet-a...
It's interesting that app stores rose in the 2000s when we were at the tail end of selling software in boxes. Margins on packaged software were often 5-15% at the distributor level and 10-25% at the retail level for consumer software. For enterprise software, it was customary to make 40% on the first license and 10-20% on upgrades. So, the app stores aren't too far off of what the reseller share would have been...
Do you remember the Avegant Glyph VR headset from a few years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEmVyMm8opE

Apple should perfect this idea instead, make it look like a normal set of highend overear headphones from the outside, and integrate a AR screen into the headband. This form factor is a winner for bulkier AR/VR headsets because people already wear headphones around their necks, people are used to seing other people wearing them like that. Meaning that one of the biggest barriers of adoption (where to store it, looks) is already solved.

A portable mobile cinema/AR viewer, and a Macbook/Ipad auxiliar screen through USB-C would be enough for a v1.

They'd have the capability to integrate powerful technology into such a package.
> People rarely run untrusted software on FOSS systems.
Personally I'd stick with the static site generators.

If you get something like wordpress installed on your own server, you now need to then commit doing the upgrades for it. I've been burnt enough times with self-hosted things like this where I missed an upgrade for whatever reason (real-life etc) and the site was hacked very, very quickly. There are ones that auto-update themselves but I have found that those have their own issues so cannot be relied upon.

Static site generators tend not to have this problem.
Because that is an escalation that nobody wants, for now. Even piracy was tolerated for a while until it became economically too disturbing. I don't think it all disappeared but it is not that bothersome.

If anybody started threatening commercial civilian flight, countries would fall on them like bricks. Quarantine for a few months was devastating on many fronts. Now, think if all flights were grounded for months...
Ultimately we will have software modulation of all photons hitting your retina, in hardware packages that are unobtrusive. To not be aiming there seems to be swimming against the tide.
The Art of Code [video]
You forgot 'probability that your opponent reasons matters like this out rationally', which is a big one I think.
I don't necessarily disagree with your analysis of Microsoft's motivation. However, it does nothing to change my support of it. The 30% Apple takes for its App Store seem a bit much for a middle man.
poor logic like this should be reserved for Buzzfeed
The FTC can agree or disagree. Until a judge decides it doesn’t matter.
Hardware and software onboard SpaceX Dragon
Totally amazing. The work you did seems tortuous but its looks like its paid off! What a brilliant machine you have now, with so many possibilities, on top of sounding really really good.
That's a very US centric view. It doesn't apply to many other countries. The point is still that it will be cheaper to manufacture large number of autonomous justice drones than to hire policemen to do the dirty work.

Why pay for their pension years after they have retired?

Why pay for their healthcare, training, damage, etc?
The Fourier transform is a line cut out of the Laplace transform, and the Laplace transform is the analytic continuation of the Fourier transform. So you should not be surprised to see the Fourier transform show up in all applications, because there is an FFT but no FLT.
I am an old developer and I completely disagree with some of the advice. Specifically a lot of older developers think we should be delivering thin client applications which was how the early web did it, but the early web did it for two important reasons. The first being bandwidth and the second being because Sun had a big hand in the early web and sun saw the world as selling big iron that a bunch of dumb terminals with low processing power connected to. It was a dumb idea and Sun partly died because of it. It is a painful user experience and I would dread trying to build modern web delivered applications via the old page-post model. If anything I see today's SPA's as correcting a world gone wrong and finally killing the completely stupid idea of dumb terminals once and for all. They also got rid of flash and a host of other browser plugins.

To sum it up, i was programming before the web existed, I hated the old page-post model, I don't build web pages, I build large apps. I am happy that I can deliver them via the web and I am happy about the state of the art. I think it can be improved on quite a bit, but not by going backwards.
You've misunderstood what "weakly typed" means. If a language implicitly converts values (like your C example) or otherwise lets execution move forward in the presence of what are or should be type errors, it's weakly typed.

JavaScript has plenty of implicit conversions and will generally only halt execution if it literally cannot do something (like make a function out of `undefined` or the like), much like C, and is a weakly typed language.
For anyone who is doubting that assertion, it’s all about the costs that scale with the number of customers you have. Beyond the hosting and server costs, there’s support costs. There’s customer acquisition costs (eg click-throughs on ads scale with the number of people click the ads). For more expensive/enterprise SaaS, there’s the account managers and sales team.

You can grow your customer base dramatically with a smallish team of engineers/recurring engineering costs, but many of the costs surrounding them still grow in a linear way.
Unless you don't smoke, I guess? :)
Agreed. Seems like a bit too much self-aggrandizement. This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine, but perhaps not if you’ve made a useful tool for system analysis. The teams that built Linux, Redis, Postgres, etc. were realistic and concrete about their value propositions and did not make any pronouncements like, “we’re changing the world.” Seems more honest.
Deno Scripts as an HTTP API
The idea that the iPhone didn't change the world is just so strange I'm not sure how to engage with it. There's a whole new category of device that billions of people own, and we're saying that didn't matter?
I feel like the EFF has slowly devolved into siding with corporate freedom over all else while only paying lip service to users.
Name one popular app that is not cross platform? How many apps have people paid for on iOS that are not subscription based and work on both platforms? Most money from apps Ecome from in app purchases from whales of pay to win games or subscriptions. How much data would really need to be “manually re-entered”?
Preventing Coronavirus Transmission with 3D-Printed Gadgets
I agree. What is the purpose of applying gradient descent to a linear regression problem? I mean, the pseudo inverse _is_ a closed form solution! Is it maybe more efficient for very large problems? I just don't get it.
> The Windows app store...

Thank you for saying "app store" instead of "App Store". If you dictate this sentence on an iPhone it comes out as "The windows App Store".

In other words, the people that work for Apple are so petty that they won't capitalize the word "windows" even if it was preceded by the word "Microsoft" but they always capitalize the words "App Store" because they insist that they have a trademark on this very generic term even though they really don't [0].

According to them, the generic phrase for app store is "online store" [1], which is hilarious because nobody ever says that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_store#%22App_Store%22_trad...

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...
They simple locked themselves down very early.
I was thinking about this recently. It's kind of amazing to me that we've spent so much effort on Mars, deep space, and even Venus, but the whole time we've had this moon in the solar system that has an ocean waiting to be explored. Admittedly, I'm not that familiar with what exploration of Europa we may have already done, but I don't get the impression that it's gotten much priority. The potential benefit of learning about its ocean seems huge.

P.S. I'm not saying we shouldn't have sent Mars rovers or anything like that. :)

EDIT: Thanks for the kind replies.
Apple Inc. v. Pepper did not cover what you think it did. The Supreme Court ruled that consumers had standing to sue for antitrust violations with regard to how Apple regulates the App Store because they pay fees for apps in that store.

It has nothing to do with your bizarre argument that because Apple has greater than 50% market share in the demographic of "teens", they're a monopoly and the government must step in. Does that also apply for a company who has a monopoly on "27-year-old web designers in Brooklyn who own a dog"?

I'm done with this conversation. You clearly have an axe to grind against Apple, and it's leading you to avoid arguing in good faith.
wasting a month to implement it and maintaining two different billing systems so I can pay the apple tax? really?????
Is Percocet a safe medication designed to help people relax?
It's foolish for a state actor leave the remnant pieces of an advanced weapon (like an autonomous drone) at the scene of a crime during an assassination. First because the uniqueness of the technology makes the actor identifiable, second because the country targeted will react more cohesively to this novel kind of cassus belli (e.g. news coverage of 1 drunk driving death vs 1 autonomous vehicle death)

The good old fashion alternative is just a gunman. It's more plausibly deniable - e.g. still nobody is exactly sure what was going on with Lee Harvey Oswold and Jack Ruby - and it doesn't put the targeted country immediately on a war footing.
most of this stuff sounds like bad news, but I have felt for a while that we need to address the issue of moderation on the largest social media platforms. I don't think it should be a binary choice between safe harbor and doing any moderation whatsoever, but there ought to be some sort of gradient for liability. that is, the more you remove stuff you don't like, the more accountable you should be for whatever stuff you continue to host. as an extreme example, suppose you have a billion users and a hundred of them are making libelous posts about some guy. you shouldn't be able to remove everything but those posts and claim safe harbor because it's user generated content.
I had a similar feeling walking through a lot of the Pergamon
Even if Microsoft is doing this out of self interest/business...they are still 100% right on this.
Few testers have programming skills
This is such a stupid article. Cops are not terminators. If you really think society could function without entire police departments, I welcome you to lobby your local municipality to dismantle their police force. Unless, that is, you mean to tell me "Defund the police" doesn't actually mean defund the police, to which I say: say what you actually mean, and don't hide behind a catchy slogan.
At no point in Microsoft's history did they have the same sort of chokehold on Windows as Apple has on the iPhone.
Just to add another example, PFOA / PFAS / GenX, a chemical family used by DuPont to create non-stick surfaces, is an insidious endocrine disrupters at very low levels. And it’s basically everywhere.

https://theintercept.com/series/the-teflon-toxin/
Is this affiliated with Glitch at all?
Sure, but then the argument is nothing more than “because our product isn’t good enough to just sell it like every other normal product in the world, we have to sell it at a loss and then extract as much value as we can from developers by exerting total control over software distribution.”
> "make the world a better place" attitude tech could use less of these days.

What's wrong with aiming to empower people?

If you like to see less of that, what would you like to see?
Unofficial versions exist
https://github.com/Abdillah/hypothesis-firefox

The one I use works fine
Stockwell, the vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega, shutting down
You really think lack of money for hiring thugs with guns to shoot helpless citizens is the limiting factor for any ill-willed nation-state?

Even the most insidious state relies on its citizenry to some extent. You're not ruling anything if your people are constantly in revolt, or if they're all dead.
Devil's advocate but is that really so bad? You see it as plastering unwanted Microsoft Edge everywhere, where my grandparents are just glad to have a modern browser that's easy to find.

And none of these lock-in measures mean shit. If Microsoft is providing a service that people want/need then why is that bad? They can't lock anybody in if nobody switches. People switch since they provide value.
How did the counterfeit medicines get to the people who took them? These are prescription drugs; even if someone made counterfeits of them, how are they going to get the counterfeits into the prescription drug supply chain? It's not like you can get prescription drugs on Amazon.

I don't see anything about this anywhere in the article.
>He's living abroad because he's either not allowed or does not feel safe entering Russia.

He has since entered Russia. Also, Durov's warrant was dropped just two months after he went exile. Stop inventing things.

>VK was taken from him pretty much over his principals not to do what HN just assume telegram does.

HN isn't concerned over what he does, it's what capabilities he leaves himself and anyone who hacks his systems. If Durov really cared about his principles, he'd have deployed app-wide E2EE from the get go. He had the money to hire the people to do that.

>Telegram was developed outside of Russia to avoid being beholden to them.

Didn't stop it from being developed by non experts, almost equally bad considering there's now the equivalent in the backdoor that allows the server to read everyone's group messages.

>The fact that Russia was actively blocking telegram should be proof enough

If that's proof of Telegram's security, then the fact the ban was lifted means Telegram is now 100% compromised. So yeah, you have to make a choice here.

>The reason they stopped is because when they did, they would accidentally blocked other services

This is the actual reason they continued, and Telegram's security is not proven by the ban. They've had the capability to hack the server since day one. And if you disagree, you're either ill informed, or fooling yourself. If it's the former, start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear

>Russians are more than one-dimensional Putin-driven fake news generating bad guys.

It's very probable Durov isn't actively trying to uphold the oligarchy from abroad by continuing his military training in propaganda and position in the Russian society by retreating to an oppressive country like UAE under the disguise of exile just when chat platforms start to overtake social media sites. I think that's very improbable.

But he's a useful fool for creating something that's trivial to hack, and that allows all intelligence establishments around the world to access Telegram's communication. We should've learned from Cambridge Analytica that ubiquitous E2EE by default is the only way to prevent future disasters. It's not like Durov can magically protect Telegram from all the state driven hacking organization and their insane budgets with no profit responsibility.