skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, here lies the difference between US and EU.

In US, you try to reason with lunatics who believe the earth is flat and other nonsense.

In EU, we treat lunatics like lunatics.
Good examples of stores that don't charge for content delivery outside their premises. They are clearly different in this critical way.
This is one of my favorites: "The Sprite: The Story of a Red Fox." It was first published in 1924 I think, I have a later copy from 1927? It's the true story of a pet fox.

Another one I liked is "Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II". This one isn't that rare but I haven't anyone mention it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

Literally this exact issue - MS was locking Windows to IE as a browser.
> I don't think rerendering an entire webpage on the server side every time a new chat message arrives is a good idea.

Sure, but that's pretty much cherry picked whataboutism when the parent comment we're talking about said: "Most people are happy if the page loads in reasonable amount of time".

So apart from people writing chat messaging widgets for websites, do you have data to contradict the conclusions about webpage load times and rates of change of user behaviour that can be obviously drawn from the Google/Amazon/Walmart/Mozilla/Yahoo data?
David announced this release of his material exactly a month ago: https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1266339737624813569
>The idea that there is a 'meeting of the minds' when I click through an installation dialog or website privacy policy

This is a fantastic point with respect to these online agreements because of analytics. Just as you say, someone clicks through these installation/website signup screens, click agree, etc... It is very easy to prove an agreement would take a minimum of x minutes to read through, yet these tech companies would have knowledge the user spent 1-2 seconds on the contract page/dialog box before clicking agree, therefore, they had knowledge the user did not and could not have read the same before agreeing.
Hmm.

> A majority of candidates agree on undermining civilian oversight of our government.

Citation?

> We aim to fix that by taking away their power every two years.

Uh oh. Have you even considered the unintended consequences of such a thing or ever read anything of the philosophy underlying democratic governance? I'd wager you have not.

> We decide whether to keep our current elected officials in office with three simple measurements.

> We decide

> We

Oh no

> With your donations, we are going to fund analysis of candidates coming up for re-election.

As per my previous prediction [1] this is a donation sourced political hit squad.

> End Mass Surveillance

The above has literally nothing to do with what you "intend" to do. It's a smokescreen to make it seem more reasonable. What is the relationship between this and biennial elections?

> Stop Big Money Politics

Well, it worked for Trump as mantra.

Honestly this is very poor. Furthermore trying to state you are a political entity wanting to influence election outcomes and remaining anonymous is beyond cowardly

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23562226
Just don't install the app?
I think it’s legality is up for discussion (that’s the discussion people are currently having). Because your analogy still falls short because the hotel now opened their own stall in the food court and is competing in the marketplace.

What are they doing with the proprietary data from other marketplace competitors?
Two comments here, and I am sorry if they come across as mean:

1) I know this article isn't aimed at me, but I do truly hate the excessive emojis.

2) More substantively: not once does the word "statistics" enter here. There is not a single illustration of the idea behind linear regression, which is staggeringly simple: it is just finding the best linear fit. Anyone who looks at a 2D scatterplot can do an approximate linear regression with their brains by visualizing a line that sorta fits the data. While the gradient descent stuff is useful for extending a machine learning algorithm, introducing linear regression this way obscures the actual concept - and indeed, obscures what machine learning actually is.

In my experience there are a huge number of data scientists who are ignorant of statistics and don't understand their models and algorithms. Although this is unfair, it is my impression that the author himself does not understand linear regression, even if they are able to write formulas using vectors. This article does a disservice to learners.
There is no way that Hey is going to tolerate this 30% tax on their Imbox
Are there "free" apps? I mean you already pay for a dev account 100$ , so say i am an open source project, I already have to pay for dev account, for a Mac device so there is no free stuff. Apple could be kind and offer free hosting for open source projects and if someone affords to pay for a doman and webhosting to have their installer hosted there they could also pay the same amount for hosting on Apple servers.
Time is money: the armchair traders of lockdown
I'm not sure if dimensionality reduction fits in the book, but it is one other thing we are considering in our problem. I am HOPING that with good coverage of early populations, we can 1. drop an order of magnitude off our dimensions (probably not) 2. select the most significant dimensions to apply our evolution techniques.

Do you have any favorite approaches to reduction?
You should check your facts then :) As of May 2020, iOS is 52% of marketshare in North America ;)
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/north-amer...
> Perhaps they plan to introduce custom domains in future? Maybe this just didn't fit into the initial release?

Most probably.

This is how basecamp always did thing, even back when it was called 37signals: they release a MVP, they generate money as early as they can, then they start agile feedback loop, improving the product throught many iterations.

They were one of the teams that made agile popular after all.

They also promote the philosophy of rejecting features and not noting the requests for them down.

Only a feature that has been requested and rejected enough times pass their "filter" of something that should be added to the product.

I'm betting a custom domain name will pass such filter and end up being implemented in one year or two.
Well, all variants of Christianity encourage proselytism which has historically resulted in many lit stakes all over the world. Until recently - if not to this day - pious donations to Missionaries in Africa lifted many from poverty on condition of conversion to Catholicism. You could even pick the new name of the poor little orphan, like a pet... (this detail struck my parents so badly, they decided to find other ways to help.)
> I'll share a VPN server and IP with other people.

Yes, now the NSA have a single point where data can be collected that would be much more interesting than at your ISP.
Throughout the current situation, did it make sense to keep a few weeks of non-perishable food in the house in the event of quarantine and even temporary power outages? Sure.

But, if they were being logically consistent, anyone arguing for a 12 month supply of rice and beans should also have:

- Headed for a place in the hills/woods

- Stocked up on guns and ammo however unpopular an opinion that might be in certain circles

- A generator and gasoline

- Lots of large containers of water

- Seeds/tools/etc.

The list goes on. It's one thing to guard against short-term disruption to supply chains. It's another to basically guard against civilizational collapse. And if you just hoard 12 months of rice and beans in your suburban, much less urban, apartment, you're way overdoing it for the former and not preparing at all for the latter.
>Cost of servers

How much does each individual server cost per registered paying developer?

>cost of bandwidth

If the bandwidth cost is so high, why doesn't Apple charge for it separately? And also, how much bandwidth does it actually require to deliver these applications? The HEY app is 31 megabytes. For $99, you can get 1100 GB of S3 egress. I honestly doubt that your average developer is amassing nearly that much traffic in a year.

>cost of maintenance of the App Store backend services and development of future features

Is funding the upkeep of the App Store fully on third party developers? It's a product that's sold as a part of the iPhone. And according to some speculation, $1,249 iPhone XS Max made like $500 of profit after parts, labor, R&D, admin, and other associated costs.

>technical support for developers, Xcode development

I'd also argue that this is something that shouldn't be fully paid by third party iOS developers. Having a way to develop applications for a platform is a pretty basic requirement.

>App Store review time

We should ask DHH if he feels like he's getting $99/year worth of value from this.
Even electron interactions?
I am saying that this "better" metric you refer to is badly defined in this article. A mask that allowed for easier breathing would potentially be used more frequently and reliably and would do less damage to the wearer. That seems better to me. The ease of carrying, wearing, and also cleaning are other important contributing factors. You are agreeing with the writer that the only contributing factor to "better" is the capacity to lower infection rates when correctly worn. That isn't merely wrong, it is dangerously and offensively stupid.
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For sure. Their thinking is probably let's see how popular it is before offering custom domains which are typically for businesses (or techies). The problem with that is, that the techies are the ones they really need to target first, since if they get hooked and loved it, then consumers will follow. I started writing a tweet when I first saw this about the typo then realized they intentionally misspelled it, and sighed. Reminded me of the days of working for a company where they felt ever employee needed a special crazy title. Often clarity is best. Sometimes plays on words work, but in this case I feel it certainly doesn't.
They didn't just IPO, they were included in the DAX 30! In addition, Wirecard claimed to be vastly more profitable than their competitors, but they never actually explained how they made all their money. There was certainly enough smoke to warrant an investigation, but regulators were asleep at the wheel.
They are correct though - that API is indeed private.
When the $WDI scandal is viewed in the context of many German banking frauds & the VW stock rigging by Porsche, investors can rightly ask whether German financial regulation is anything but a fig leaf.

The same could be said for many financial regulators all over the world -- clubby relationships with financiers, vulnerable to lobbying, "looking the other way" when there are signs of problems, letting the big fish off the hook while coming down hard on small players, etc.

In some countries it's much worse, with outright fraud involving the regulators themselves.
This is one of the rare articles which applies linear regression to something which is linear by nature (I am assuming good faith from the authors when they use "intuitively" to mean mean "we know our model is linear because <something>")

Whenever I look at generic information (news, newspapers, generic articles), someone is taking a cloud of points and, bam!, draws a straight line through them. I actually reached to some authors to ask why they did that.

Answers (if any) were varied, I had I think one person who actually said that the data is expected to be linear. Many could not see the point, up to "if it looks like a line, then we put a line".
I love the presentation text.
Yeah as much as the Apple thing got their name in the headlines...it’s likely going to end up basically banning their app on the store and force them to have a non-competitive product. I don’t think they are dumb enough to think of that as marketing.
As a consumer you have no choice to use a better AppStore, or to grab your apps/movies/music and move to a better provider.
So IMO Apple is doomed to be regulated, maybe it is not to late to be more fair with the developers.
Difficult to judge: Better sight doesn't mean "better human-like sight". Maybe dogs are better at seeing fast moving gradients (e.g. when racing prey), but have difficulties with slow changes (e.g. predator slowly closing in).

Also, maybe the dogs just assumed that /you/ would be looking out for any "enemies", and were then just surprised because you didn't warn them about the impeding "attack" while they had other things in mind ;-)
> The issue is that when the GP's iPad was new, it didn't have many problems browsing the web. I know mine did not.

Those are some rose colored glasses. The first page (technobuffalo) loaded in this video takes 10 to 15 seconds:

https://youtu.be/caTUPKJ5Zfo

Based on what was said, that page had already been loaded once, and it still took that long.

Loading a Google Search took only about two seconds, because of how extremely minimal and optimized the search page was back then.

Loading The NY Times took about 8 to 12 seconds, depending on where you draw the line.

So, at the time, maybe we were used to webpages taking a while to load on mobile devices, and it seemed very reasonable. I’m sure there were some extremely simple websites that loaded quickly, but The NY Times was one that Apple promoted heavily at the time (apparently) as demonstrating what a good experience the iPad browser was.

Nowadays, we hold the web and our devices to much higher performance standards.

It’s not an apples to apples comparison because the content is entirely different, but the context of this thread is that modern websites are significantly harder to load and render.

Even though content is supposedly much more resource intensive today, my 2018 iPad Pro loaded the technobuffalo home page initially in less than 3 seconds, and subsequent page clicks are even faster.

This iPad loads google search results even faster than the original iPad.

This iPad loads the New York Times in under 3 seconds, with subsequent page clicks taking the same or less time.

Based on the numbers, a contemporaneous 2010 iPad was 3x to 5x slower at browsing the 2010 web than my 2018 iPad is when it comes to browsing the 2020 web, and that’s a roughly two year old iPad design, so it should be even more at a disadvantage. My iPad is also rendering more than 5x as many pixels while doing that.

In conclusion, the original iPad was severely underpowered.

> A blog post, news article, or a tweet shouldn't require a quad core CPU and gigabytes of RAM to be readable.

Conceptually, I agree, but every image and video we use for content in websites now is significantly higher resolution and quality than they were back then. If you just want to read text, then you’re correct.
There are 1.9 billion EUR missing, not sure if the implication is that they were stolen or never existed in the first place. I also can't really think of any possible explanation for this to go so far when the banks in question say that the account never existed at all. It doesn't seem believable that anyone seriously investigated the potential fraud in the last months or years, and the scandal has been public for a while now.
Michael Parenti? No. He makes it pretty clear that he supports independence but not the restoration of the medieval social order.
> The semantic web will never work because there is no way to enforce it. If the topic "horses" become popular people will just start tagging their spam pages with "horse" to try to get people to look at their pages.

There are plenty of trusted sources that would not spam their pages in this way. And if you spam too much, you risk getting dropped from search indexes, directories, links etc. because your source is just not useful.
100 years ago, diabetes was a terminal illness. Gouging prices on insulin is still a dick move.
I think the goal is to exclude anything that was created with a popular CMS (to exclude some content marketing), or in the top 100k websites.

Then we might go back to something sort of interesting.
They already announced that custom domains are coming.
It will end up being like Google plus
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Mao didn't kill millions.

Yes millions died in China from 1950 to 1960. But it was a combination of failed social experiments, aka communism and central planning of everything, and natural disasters.

Mao was brutal to his political opponents but he never ordered massive massacres.
~~I'm surprised no one here has mentioned (or possibly not noticed) that the developer is an employee of Hey. This is definitely some sort of bad press marketing thing.~~

Edit: actually, it turns out I'm just an idiot and shouldn't comment on things before I fully wake up. That's my b.
Success rate varies, but when it's low, it's usually because of the legal hurdles imposed by those countries, eg having to wait an obscene amount of time to get a work permit.
I wonder how much of the annoyance with the term "Imbox" has to do with the dichotomy between System 1 and System 2 thinking. When I see "Inbox", I put almost no thought into what it means admittedly because I've been exposed to the term so many times much less so with "Imbox".
I don’t know; I’ve got 8 years building JS-heavy frontends and more than that building backends / ops.

React isn’t too bad, as such things go, but compared to server rendering SPAs are such a slog.

There are good reasons to build them sometimes, but “fast and easy” is not one of them IME.
Lots of material up there, would be interesting to prospect what more tech could be appropriated there for new use-cases.

At https://space-search.io by applying the orbit duration filter lower than 1 (i.e. above geostationary) you can get a good picture of all the satellites currently in that kind of graveyard orbit.
Agreed. And in regard to GP's comment:

> kind of arrogant "make the world a better place" attitude

It's not "arrogant" to want to make the world a better place. If GP thinks they're lying, they's better described as "deceptive". If GP thinks they're naive, they should say that, and ideally provide some constructive feedback. This kind of knee-jerk comment (and the subsequent knee-jerk upvotes) is my least-favorite thing about HN.
iOS 13 – Features and Improvements. What’s in it for developers
It's ok, it means you are not the target.

Things like that are good filters to find you user base and focus your resources.
When Dad jokes turn into UI labels.
Sadly, same.
No new legislation needed. Existing anti-trust laws can be used to force them to de-couple the apps from the devices.

In the same way the government forced Microsoft to de-couple Internet Explorer from Windows.
> This was nowhere near Soviet bread line status. In the Soviet Union, perhaps you had to stand in line for bread, but, at least there was bread.

Please stop. this is outright demonstrably false by every account.

It's a nice reminder that someone with a lot of intelligence and dare I say talent in one area can be so wrong in another.

But seriously dude, please educate yourself on the history of socialism and how it's totally and completely failed everywhere it was tried from Germany to Colombia to Sweden it's never worked and every attempt has either resulted in a civil war, a world war, or just years of economic pain to walk it back.
For what I understand of Islam, there’s no final authority like the Catholic Pope. In Islam, authority is a matter of who has the most resources to make more followers.

Unfortunately the USA decided to bankroll the most reactionary sect, giving out the capacity to dominate the scene.

Imagine if Marcel Lefebvre had petro-dollars to back him...
Every time I see these amazing works of art I wonder why they didn't just focus on building a steel lathe [0] as soon as possible and kick start the industrial revolution. It probably had more to do with geography, transportation, culture and unequal development of the planet than the skill of the craftsmen at the time.

[0] If you have a lathe you can build more steam machines and locomotives which then enable you to transport coal and steel to build and power even more lathes and steam machines and locomotives...
Yeah dogs get really good at a few things, especially when it comes to food. They are really good manipulators too, generally to get food.

My dog only needs to be given a treat once by a shop owner and every walk afterwards he’ll go up to the door of that shop.

I took him with me to pick up a framed picture once and the shop owner had a few treats for him. We don’t often go by this shop and this was awhile ago. And now when do walk past he pulls a bit to suggest we go inside.

Or if they find some food under a bush or something - they’ll check quite a few times later to see if it magically restocked.

They also try things out to see if it works in getting them food. Which is why it’s important to not fall for their tricks. Easier said than done as they know how to use their facial expressions to get what they want.

When it comes down to it, dogs simply have a lot of time on their hands. They get good at figuring out which sounds and actions mean what at certain times. And they figure out how to manipulate that. Almost like inmates that have nothing to do all day but think up schemes.

They’ll get away with whatever they can.
> As the Black Lives Matter demonstrations gained momentum and the police response became increasingly violent, I found myself reliving what Turkey has gone through, but in English.

In some cases in these US protests/revolts the authorities stepped completely back allowing looters and vandals complete reign over some areas. That's the complete opposite of what happened in Turkey.
Because he's not an employee of Basecamp / Hey. What makes you say that?

https://twitter.com/manuel_frigerio/status/12739352538879098...
Come on, nothing innovative? It really is innovative. Whitelist screening, batch replying, proper “reply later” etc

I think imbox is embarrassing, and I don’t like the graphic design, but it’s definitely innovative and good for them for doing something different.
I’m no Apple or free market fanatic, I’m just explaining that these attacks are going nowhere under our legal and financial system. They are pipe dreams that come round every twelve months or so, and will remain that way unless we radically change the nature of legal property. This particular one is out of the hey.com marketing budget, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.
What? Did you forget the US and EU anti-trust actions? The browser choice screen and the $1 billion fine over it? The forced opening up of Office file protocols and SMB specs?

Also they aren't taking 30% forcibly of every single program that runs on Windows.
I amazed how much people get annoyed by such a small and insignificant detail.

I also noticed the "Imbox" but i dont believe i thought about it for more than 1 second.
Apple doesn't have to recover it, as a cost to something they don't have any part in.

They could take a cut of housing sales too, for all the sense that makes. I can see them in front of congress now: "But Apple isn't making the billions we once did! We neeeeed this money!"

Apple sells $25 phones for $1000. That's their business. Trying to make their business, taking a cut of other people's business, is egregious.
misleading title. Please use source titles in submissions.
This is why we have anti-trust laws.
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I am talking about the cost of acquiring customers.

It's great that you have these existing users but almost all developers don't. And so when people say that 30% is expensive often it's because the are ignorant of how much it costs most businesses to acquire customers.

And I have to pay to develop apps for most platforms so pretty confused why you feel like this is somehow unusual.