skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're serving different market segments. Costco literally charges an admission fee. "Pay me money to come spend more money inside my store and it'll be really cool, promise" is the antithesis of the Walmart philosophy. Walmart itself recognizes this, which is why Sam's Club exists (no reason to let a competitor run away with that less price-sensitive market segment without a fight, of course).

For any arbitrary shopper-item combination, as long as the item can fit the basic merchantability requirements over the duration of the return period, the only significant criterion is going to be price. Knowing this and then ensuring that they have the cheapest merchantable items in every product class is how Walmart became the de-facto shopping nexus everywhere that major social and/or governmental interference hasn't stopped them. It's the place to go to get the stuff you have to buy, not the stuff you want to buy.

If your standards are too high to wear a shirt that consists of 80% recycled plastic, you don't buy shirts at Walmart. But that doesn't mean you automatically have the same high standards for a garden spade, a toilet seat, or a kitchen spatula. If we imagine that we need all four of these items today, we go to Walmart to buy the latter three and then use the money saved to invest in a better 100% cotton shirt from $FAVORITE_SHIRT_VENDOR.
Notice that walking on the streets of China or Hong Kong is still a world different from posting an internet comment or incrementing a mysql column.

Also, yes, we generally are skeptical of political claims online. See this thread and any political discussion on HN. It's why political submissions are usually clusterfucks like this one where every top-level comment is greyed-out and making a strong claim. Or made by someone who registered an account just to post it.

Either way, you are here bringing Quora posts and a petition in into a superhot discussion that demands more. Linking to published opinion pieces from people at ground zero would definitely be more compelling than pointing us to an internet forum where you write your own byline credentials.
'Kingkiller Chronicle' Editor Believes Author Hasn't Written Anything for Years
Literally in the first paragraph

> He says TikTok will also reveal its data flows to regulators, and is calling on its rivals to do the same
Or coerced.

Note that the coercion doesn't have to be blatant or explicit. China said some fairly threatening things about Hong Kong, and some number of residents may have decided that, for their own safety, they needed to signal that they were in support. What they actually feel or think may be different.
They said the whole Suite. Inkscape is Illustrator in that sense.
Can someone please share a source on how it is more of a spyware than facebook, instagram, etc.

Edit: grammar
At least they’re issuing the refunds. Have bought products from other startups that went bust and they just send an email saying their product won’t work after X date, have a nice day.
Hard to believe this was nearly a quarter century ago. T he references are getting dated:

> "How do you scare a Bellhead?" he begins. "First, show them something like RealAudio or IPhone. Then tell them that right now performance is bandwidth-limited, but that additional infrastructure is being deployed."
> …
> One result is undergrads who, for $29.95 a month, clog up the Internet with CU-SeeMe sessions.
All life that survived snowball Earth has genes that improves health in cold temperatures, and this has been documented in humans as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486781/
I would guess that buying an app with the intention of harming the app creator by doing a refund is against the ToS, and I think that's fair (since the purpose of the refund mechanism is to allow the buyer to change their mind for some "good faith" reason - even something like a change of mood is fine, but "to harm the creator" is obviously not)
I really wish they just used a (SO)DIMM slot but there we go.

Still tempted to get one, the dual NICs and FPGA fabric could make an interesting network gateway. I’d wonder what throughput you could get if you used the FPGA for routing and maybe even some inspection.
I agree about general journalistic innumeracy, but in this case it may well be the best estimate available. It's no different from the order of magnitude estimates highly numerate people make for good reason all the time.
Symbian was a terrible OS that was impossible to program for and needed to die. iOS rightly changed the entire paradigm, and they didn’t have the vision to catch up.
Why is it we don’t tax these companies in the same way. 30% on all income in the country where the good/service was sold
Agreed! (full disclosure: i work for MIT Press). Here's a 3,000-word version of the book that readers of this piece will also appreciate: https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet...
Well they won't cause money rewrites the mind to worry about money.
> Finding negatives to this move is being too paranoid.

and I've been around long enough and been stung hard enough and enough times by MS[0] to say that not expecting negatives in this risks naivety.

[0] I've just wasted 12 hours trying to install visual studio and that's their own bloody product!
Embracing and extending something, with no possible way to extinguish cannot be seen as steps one and two of an embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. That makes no sense at all
> It's no surprise that the best-funded company produces the best results, but it would be interesting to find out if a more honest company could produce better results with equal funding.

This is not true, SpaceX was consistenly cheaper than the competition for launches and ISS resupply.
This is one of the more encouraging things I've heard about this space recently. Obviously no worries if not, but is there any more detail you can provide about the (I'm assuming) niches you're using it in?
You'd be setting up a competition between the new hires. That might create something of a toxic work environment.
You land on Mars. Refuel. And launch again direct to Earth.
This is not a phenomenon unique to Russia. What was in it for the United States to drop 108,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia? What is in it still for the US to continue having troops in Afghanistan?

Powerful countries have agendas. I cannot think of any entity that names itself a "country" that does not.
> would have been successful

Fab could have been successful as a not-so-large company, but it wanted to be Amazon.
Don’t forget keeping spies at bay. Berlin was a notorious hotbed of espionage, for obvious reasons, and East German authorities had already enough trouble controlling the existing checkpoints without having to add new ones.
Important difference: with Paypal, the seller decides to issue the refund, not Paypal unilaterally (except in cases of alleged fraud), and the seller can determine how much of a refund to provide.
Well, it’s work and expertise on his part, is it not?
HNers don't seem very critical of Apple here. Imagine if Microsoft did the same, all hell would break loose.
U.S. prosecutors seek 27 months imprisonment for former Uber self-driving head
> "Which competitors to $car_manufacturer engines are there for $car_manufacturer cars?"

Interesting and rather unfortunate that you should use that example, since the landmark Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act famously invalidated automakers attempts to revoke their products' warranty if aftermarket parts were installed. It's a clear example of a consumer-hostile practice that was deemed to be unfair and regulated, even though no monopoly was involved.
I miss the days when big sites/companies would sometimes go under.
And if you pay for the year up front, it's even cheaper. (Actually, I think the 1st year offer for 12 audio books is a better deal than that too.)
The model you train and data you upload are yours to own, unique to you and don't get shared across users or reused for any other tasks so hopefully you shouln't feel too much like your building our IP ;)

In terms of deployment options, we're trying to lead with cloud hosting by default but know that for a lot of people the whole reason they're annotating in house is privacy so we've been exploring deploying in your VPC and for larger enterprises on-prem.

Interested to hear more of your thoughts on the pricing model, this is something we're still iterating on so I'd be interested what you think would be most compatible with your use cases?
it's more that being an expert doesn't rid you of biases, and things like recency and availability (not to mention authority and esteem) combined with our robust and unwavering bias against novel dangers, is more potent than our rational brains can often handle, no matter who you are.

and sometimes you're too close to the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease
You need mainly probability, statistics, multivariable calculus and linear algebra. It's a lot of material to cover and it takes years. I would suggest to pick a mathematics course/book that's just above your current level (whatever that is) and start there.

That shouldn't stop you from doing kaggle competitions right now though if thats' what you like. Personally I dislike kaggle but there's no reason why you can't just grab a dataset, experiment with different algorithms and learn as you go.
It's interesting because people (quite rightly) speak fearfully of the Chinese social credit system.

Over here in the US, we seem to be accidentally building something that is somewhat similar, but far more haphazard and inconsistent: online outrage mobs. I'd wager more people are self-censoring due to these than anything the US government has put into place.
Applicants should know what the process is; I'm not sure why you'd assume that would be kept from them? It's perfectly normal for hiring / firing sales, traders, and other performance oriented professions.

Nothing forces people to apply ... mortgages, children etc.

It really depends on whether as an employee you want a meritocracy or an easy time. Personally, I wouldn't be adverse to this sort of practice; and companies like Valve do something significantly more extreme.
Indeed. Fragmenting is inevitable as software takes over the world.

Countries using foreign products will be more and more wary of espionnage.

Attempts at local data residency are encouraging. Yet they are still a far cry from what is needed.
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This is only if you believe that dragnet surveillance is not done on purpose, in order to control the masses.
Elan Lee Sold 10M+ Copies of This Popular Card Game
Just because the straight man is a genius doesn't mean the partner is an idiot. Can you say who was more brilliant between Abbott and Costello? They each had different roles. Which Smothers Brother was the brains of the outfit? Why not both?
> Saying the public doesn't care about surveillance is oft-repeated reductionism, even around HN, and I think we could level-up ever so slightly by widely admitting that average people are just as complex as you, and have lots of interesting cares, when the context is right.

I'm not arguing they are simpletons who just don't understand tech, but it's quite clear that most people don't care enough to do anything about it. take me as an example. in the abstract, I dislike being the subject of surveillance. but in practice, I don't care enough to sacrifice the convenience of the google ecosystem. I certainly don't care enough to replace my android phone with an iphone, even though I could afford it.
I like Google's integrated approach. I don't see it as spam, which would be ads that I don't wish to see. I've tried other services, but prefer Google Maps, Google Flights, etc.
Where in the article that you linked does it say that breaking up or regulating big tech is very popular?
Hell hath no fury like nerds scorned.
I don't see the term "future oriented" as having any firm meaning in a vacuum, as a somehow absolute judgment; it's meaningful in a relative sense and that's how I used it.

After 9/11, most Americans became more future oriented than immediately before; both advocating for the invasion and addressing "root causes" in different ways are different forms of that. Either was more focused on the future than maintaining sanctions and occasional airstrikes.
My coworker at a Yahoo office in SF moved to Uruguay (where his wife is from) and then expected the company to fly him in for important meetings. He got away with it for a bit before HR caught wind. Even for them it was too much.
the issue has always been that there are far more people than you expect who wish to only consume hence why these states only worked for as long as they did because authoritarian governments have little in the way of limits when it comes to compelling people to work.

you would need an excessive abundance to accommodate the large numbers of people who do not believe they must contribute. I am not saying they won't work and produce wealth, those that do will only do so for themselves
Building a Multiplayer Game on the Internet Computer Using WASM-Based Motoko
Devils advocate argument: A refund (probably) reduces the LTV of customers, and Apple has no control of the cause of those refunds, whether it be a buggy app or misrepresenting features.

The ethics of this scheme are debatable but it should be assumed that some refunds are legitimate and Apple loses tangible customer $LTV from some refunds.
A middle manager makes their career out of being present at the time, publishing their distilled wisdom in a best-selling tome, translated in 50 languages: Business at the speed of bacteria.
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai Testify Before Congress
but this article didn't say anything can happen, it is measuring a shift in the opinions of those who became unemployed during the pandemic, and the context of this is congress is currently negotiating a stimulus package to help those in need.

My question to the OP, and maybe you, is why does that not matter to you?

I don't see how that is deceptive, sensationalized or misleading to be considered clickbait
Stories from developing the original Kindle (Twitter thread)
That's because they're not the same class of processor. The chain is like

Your bank account -> visa/mastercard/discover -> PayPal's merchant bank account -> the person you're paying bank account

PayPal only replaces the ccs when you pay with their wallet. Otherwise they're just orchestrating the money flow (because integrating with the CC companies is a gigantic PITA)
It is not easy to find and even harder to actually use, but here are the sources:

http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/

I also was sent a frank.image that runs on Squeak and uses these files but don't know where that can be found.
GIMP should do a Blender 2.8 and do a major focused release on improving UX
Apple doesn’t charge the user immediately. Instead it consolidates over a few days. So, often, the card processing fees are lower for Apple.
This makes no sense? You can compare SpaceX and Boeing performance on the commercial crew contracts which have very similar deliverables and nothing to do with other businesses.

Boeing received considerably more money for commercial crew and delivered worse results, they'll refly the demo mission at their own cost putting them ~1 year behind SpaceX.
The role "Application DBA" doesn't seem right. Is this common?
Hard to say! It seems obvious, but given it is so obvious there might be a good reason to not do that. For example, if 99.9% of JavaScript in the wild weighted by popularity is minified, this could be the right tradeoff.
Nothing wrong. They are good in it's own sense. But,they are less adopted and there are lot of desirable features that are not present.

1) Megacorps creating and popularizing means greater adoption. Greater adoption is good thing.

2) FLOSS Graphic Design SUITE is good. Ideally, it can be made to run on every platform.
Don't know about the person you replied to, but none of the dates you mention qualify as what I would call "a few years."
I literally spent most of the day after reading this yesterday testing, and they were identical (or near enough as made no difference). Today, same thing.

That's my point - you probably never thought it was any other way, and I never thought it was any other way, and we're both just like "wait, what? you LIVE like that?" That fascinates me! I think the last time I experienced this was the blue/black white/gold dress thing or when I first found out some people wipe standing up and some people wipe sitting down and everyone is shocked when they find this out for the first time.
Scientists Discover First Methane Leak in Antarctica; Warn of Warming Threat
The virus has a multi-week incubation period, during which you're infectious despite not yet showing symptoms. Even if you never show symptoms, you can still carry and transmit the virus.

Symptoms (or the lack thereof) are not an indicator of whether or not someone has contracted it.
Sounds like something I’d like to get behind, but then in the first paragraph it makes it sound like it’s something only “people of color” need to worry about. That’s a miscalculation I think. Getting control from many police forces means needing republican support, and everyone should be concerned.
Thank you for weighing in. Hearing from more devs is what this thread needs, IMO, not rumor mongering.

Great website, by the way!

https://www.nikolaapp.com/

Out of curiosity, can you say whether Tesla has approached you for acquisition?
Metaverse is what I'm thinking.

Won't be surprised if one day Microsoft pulls off a product that combines Hololens and Minecraft, i.e. a much better version of Minecraft Earth.
> If I were the founder, I'd go the Chinese government and ask them to ban Tesla and put tariff on Apple in retaliation. Tell the U.S. to play free market like they claim. Or lost access for it's companies

China has already been doing stuff like this for decades.

It is about time that the US started doing the same thing back, when it makes sense to do so.
This is what you're after (or will be): https://glimpse-editor.github.io/
It remains to be seen what "data flows" actually means. That term is used again in the article but it doesn't sound like it explicitly refers to how TikTok acts like a surveillence tool. Maybe it will, but this is political theater. If they were run by people who actually cared, they wouldn't have gotten to this point in the first place.

> TikTok will launch a Transparency and Accountability Center in Los Angeles for moderation and data practices that will house all of its data flows and code moving forward.

Sounds pretty ambiguous. Like I said, remains to be seen.

These aren't friendly people. Their app not only harvests an assload of your data but has also been shown to be full of vulnerabilities. I'm not just going to take their word for it that making everything "open" is going to show that they've made things right.

If I ran TikTok, I'd pull off a stunt like this to fool technically illiterate politicians to get them off my back.
I think this is part of what is holding back iPad software. You can't charge $100 for Sketch and lose $30 when someone asks for a refund. Apple designed this around $1-$10 apps where losing $2 at volume is fine.

What is worse, is that Apple doesn't remove the app from the user's device. When you get a refund of a paid app it is on the honor system for them to delete it. It is removed from their account, so they can no longer download/update, but the installed binary is not affected.
He's arguing not just against SMS-2FA, but against 2FA itself, and his simple solution is to "just use a strong password".

The author completely misses the point about the value of 2FA itself. I agree SMS-2FA is not good, but that doesn't mean 2FA is worthless.
Try to search for anything more than a couple of years old on Google and you will have a very difficult time.

That said, the "just search for it" paradigm is the correct way to think about bookmarking, as Joshua Schachter taught me. Bookmarking sites just take care of the haystack for you so the various needles you want to find later don't disappear.
Here is an actual person, living in China, commenting on Hong Kong. Do you believe this video deserves skepticism? If so, can you tell me why? https://youtu.be/h64hTb4on78
Will he also accept that TikTok instructed moderators to "suppress posts created by users deemed too ugly, poor, or disabled for the platform"[1]?

There are already enough forces at play which feeds on inequality, hate, scarcity etc. making life miserable for the majority of human population, forces which we may have already lost the battle with; let's not give in to new ones just for the sake of entertainment.

[1]https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
In many of your responses, either you completely miss the point of the parent comment, or you're a master of the red herring. Both are obnoxious and will get you downvotes.
Visual Studio Code! :O
Very nice breakdown of the history of the neutrino! I fully agree. Whether a theory is a conceptual desaster or not is completely unrelated to its success. And I totally get that the hope of physicists is that such theories continue to be successful, since it means new physics which can be discovered. But, still if there is a theory that manages to explain observations, without postulating an otherwise unmeasurable quantity, Ockham’s razor tells you that it would be reasonable to prefer those.
The article you cited makes no claims about 'all life having genes that improve its health in cold temperatures'.

The leap between its claim, and yours, is massive, and would require incredibly extraordinary evidence.
The problem with "financially optimal" strategies is that tend to ignore the fact that income can be lumpy. If everything is steady-state then it's "optimal" (as in better returns) to run highly leveraged. The problem is that life for individuals is not steady-state: you might lose your job, the economy might crater, the currency might get devalued, the property/stock market crash, etc. A 0% loan on a residence can be quite a problem if your income is 0 for some reason. Unlike a CEO who still gets his golden parachute if his highly leveraged, "financially optimal" company encounters "unforseeable" "turbulence" and ends up bankrupt, a bankruptcy in Me Myself and I, Inc. could be disastrous. Like, family on the streets disastrous. Individuals opting for peace of mind are minimizing downside risk, not maximizing "upside potential". Financiers can afford to take risks that end up with them blowing up, but when it's your life that blows up if some problem comes, minimizing the downside is a pretty maximizing strategy. The fact is, we know there we be periods of difficulty, we just don't know what the specific difficulty will be in advance.
If it's still read-only, then what's changing?
Blender skyrocketed in popularity in last 5 years. I just went through local gamedev job openings site (skillshot.pl) and over half of 3D Artist postings mention Blender.
> Gkeyll contains ab-initio and novel implementations of a number of algorithms, and perhaps is unique in using a JIT compiled typeless dynamic language for its implementation.

LuaJIT. Neat. I assumed this stuff was still all in FORTRAN.
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